Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A gale did much damage throughout northern Ohio. V.'.’ Former Filipino rebels are about to start in pursuit of Aguinahlo. Final entry has been tiled in the cases dissolving trusts in the State of Ohio. Contract for driving the tubes fur Yerkes' underground rnrhvay in London has been let. Schooner Polly, famous as a .privateer in the war of INI2, has been, wrecked on the Maine coast. Six masked men robbed an Iron Moitn tain pilsscnger train at Gifford, Ark., but mil red little booty. Hr. S. F. Kennedy, convicted of the murder of "Dolly” Reynolds in INS US, has been granted a new trial.

A special from Montpelier, Vt., says a report is current that G. L. Closson, cashier of the First National Rank <>f Springfield, Vt., is s2o,<MtO short in his accounts. Mrs. Jolm Rodvettsky lighted the fire in a stove nt her home in Ashtabula with oil. The oil exploded and saturated her clothing, which ignited, and she was burned to death in three minutes. A special dispatch from Stockholm sayt it is rumored that King Oscar 11. has had two slight paralytic strokes. His present condition, however, is not alarming. 11c drives daily and is out of doors considerably. Leonard M. Nash, a Frincctou freshman, whose home is in Bradford, Pit., was instantly killed by falling from the top Of .the water tower, which stands on Mereus heights and distributes the town's water supply. Quite a sensation has been caused in Newburg, n suburb of <'love land, over the elopement of handsome Marion lbty, 11) years old, with Earl Kennedy, ill years old, a telegraph operator with two wooden legs. Three men entered the jewelry store of John .1. Hubbard In Baltimore, Mo., assaulted the- proprietor, left him for dead and looted the place of its contents. The assault occurred within a block of police headquarters. Miss Phoebe Meeks, ST> years old, is dead at Brookville, lnd. Sixty years ago she was disappointed in love and she made a resolution to keep herself apart from the world. From that day she never left her dooryard. A man alsntt tkl jears old, who registered os J. F. Jones of t'Uleago and designated himself as-a traveling salesman, was found dead in lied in the Uolleltdeu Hotel in Cleveland. There was nothing to Indicate the cause of death. The engagement of Miss Mary E. Wil kins, the author, and Hr. Charles Man* tiing Freeman of New York, which followed a courtship of teu years and under which the couple were to have been married one day this month, has been broken. A wedding ceremony in which all Ken lucky was interested was solemnized in Oweusboro tin* other evening. (sov. John CropP* Wyekllffe Beckham of Kentucky was the bridegroom am) the bride was Misa Jean Raphael Fuqua of Owensboro. ■ The population of the State of Now York, as officially announced,' is 7.2 UH- . as against 5,1107,833 in IKK). This is uu inereose of 1,270,1511, or 21.1 per cent. , Thomas Hyde, aged 17 years, returning from a luiut at Sweetwater, Tonn., point- , ed hla gun nt Mias Maggie Hyde, aged 20 years, to frighten her. The gun was discharged, tearing her head off. Twenty or more lives nt'e reported to have been loot In a tornado that swept through northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee, wrecking buildings, injuring railroad property and causing much damage to the cotton crop. ’ *