Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Somalis of Juba land have killed Subcommissioner Jenner. A. Schmidt & Co., wholesale furniture dealers at Laredo, Texas, have made an assignment. Twenty-five alleged terra-cotta statues from Tunngrn, in Boston, are found to be rank forgeries. . Creditors of the Castellanes have enjoined the Goulds from paying any money to Countess Anna, The Italian Chamber of Deputies has adopted the socialist motion to abolish trials by court martial. ill of Charles 11. Ilovt cuts off Ids near relatives, leaving his estate to the Lambs Club and to friends. It. 11. Mny has been awarded 1140,000 in his ease ajjiinst Guatemala for annulment of his railroad contract. Sugar City, Colo., celebrated the starting of work on the ruction of on immense sugur refinery plant costing *l- - At Akron, Ohio, Frank Werner and Louis Rohr were killed by a broken telephone wire charged with electricity. It hnd fallen across a trolley wire. Tire men stooped to pick it up and both were iustuutly killed. The population of Texas, ns officially announced, is J1.04N.710, against 2,235/ 523 in 1800. This Is an increase of 813,187, or 30.3 per cent. David R. Hnover of Orange, X. J., a lawyer, who was convicted of ciiilm-x----tllng #1,375 from the estate of -Catherine Brlett of Roekport, Ind., was sentenced at Newark to six months’ imprisonment. The entire crew of the schooner Maumee Valley, which sank in shallow water on the Point Au Pelee middle ground, near Toledo, Otyov has been lost. There were seven of them, including the ottt- «*"•