Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Prince George of Greece and Princess Victoria of Wales are bet tot lied. Yale offers free scholarships to five Filipinos to be selected by Judge Taft. May Yobe, Lady Hope, has been recognized by the family of the Duke of Newcastle. Ambassador Choate delivered an address on Lincoln before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. John D. Rockefeller has given SIO,OOO to the building fund of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cleveland. At Fort Worth, Texas, fire destroyed the Wichita Falls mill and elevator. Over 200.000 bushels of wheat was burned with the buildings. Insurance $140,000. Loss about the same. The Dutch cabinet submitted to the states-geneval a new bill proposing to drain the entire Zuydcr Zee. l's this plan is carried out it will be one of the greatest enterprises of modern times. A special dispatch from Tien tsin says a force of Russians has captured the arsenal northeast of Yang-tsun, with trifling loss, killing 200 Chinese and capturing a quantity of arms and treasures. There was a head-end collision on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway between Sherman and Denison, Texas. Both engines were demolished and sev end ears were wrecked. One man was killed. A hill to disfranchise the negro lias been introduced in the lower house of the GeoVgia Legislature by Mr. Hardwick of Washington County. It prescribes an educational and property qualification for suffrage. The Crowell family aud all their relatives in North Attleboro, Mass., are in great glee over news from England to the effect that the whole lot are heirs to $30,000,000 left by a John Crowell 100 years ago. A forest fire destroyed Brookings’ mill in Fredallira park, San Bernardino, Cal., and burned over 10,000,000 feet of, lumber. The damage done by the tire is estimated at $400,000. The mill was owned by Michigan men. The Central Coal and Coke Company of Kansas City has purchased the Sweet.■water Coal Mining Company’s property at Rock Springs, Wyo., and voted to lu'crease its own capita! stock from $3,000,000 to $3,750,000. The maiden trip of whnlebaek steel barges from St. Louis to New Orleans, the scheme that is intended to revolution ize grain shipping from the West to that port by its cheapness, lias been ueeoni plished. successfully. A judgment of ouster against Mount •Hope College ofJtogers, Ohio, was given by the Supreme Court and the college loses its charter. The ground upon which it was asked was that the college find lieen selling diplomas. Joseph Buckingham Canfield, son of H. O. Canfield, the wealthy owner of the Canfield rubber works at Bridgeport, Conn., lias chosen ns his bride Miss Male Kathryn Donnell, who until receutly worked' hard for her living in a factory. Sheriff George T. Young ami Deputy Sheriff Frunk Bcllnr were fatally shot In encounter with u desperado ut Spring field, Mont. Frunk Jarvis Fatten, inventor of the multiplex telegraph system and of the ftyroscope, used on ocean vessels for givng the position of the vessel in midocean, died suddenly in New York. Near Bergent, Ky., three masked robbers entered the house of Mrs. Minu Hall and demanded money. Being refused they shot the woman dead, and when her sons appeared one of them received fatal wounds.