Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — REVITIES. [ARTICLE]

REVITIES.

! ; Japan is plansing nn armor plate plant I' at Tokyo ami may build her own warships. 1 Mrs. Mary 11. Stoddard, wife of John || IL. Stoddard, the lecturer, is suing for I divorce for desertion. e| ’ I («en. Mercier created a sensation in Rt (the French Senate by partly tit-scribing a plan to invade England. R * Snow fell for two weeks in northern Montana, reaching a depth of four feet and euusing great loss of sheep, p* What is known as the Ridgewood powf er house, owned by the Brooklyn, N. Y., |. ißnpid Transit (’oinpany, was destroyed K W lire, causing a loss of SISO,(MX). ■f. Charles A. Tonne of I Mituth lias been E offered and has accepted the appointmenit as United States Senator from Minnelli sot a to till tlie vacancy caused by the death of Senator (’. I\. Davis. The old cemetery at Ely, Minn., is a R bed of petrifaction*, many of tin- bodies |- tiuriiHl there having turned to stone. The Ig; discovery was made when tin- work of g transferring the bodies to the new cemey *ery was begun. I|l Gov. Pingrcc lias issued a call for an* other special session of the Michigan l,<>g sla-ture, making tiirec special sessions in | the last two years. The Governor bill Uevea that, railroad legislation can tic eu- : ’ neted before the Legislature dies. Rl Fire in the upper storerooms of Haywood Bros, and the Wakefield Rattan | -Company in Boston, caused a loss of SIOO.OOII. fc Robert 1.. Bailee, a street car motor- | man in Lexington, Ky., shot and killed 1 tiis wife and then killed himself. The 1 'eouple had had a rjuarrel over money left tier by a relative. ''While temporarily insane and on a •NortS>western train near Cedar Rapids, K lowa, Joseph Crisp! of Han Francisco tempted suicide by cutting his throat. Hie was stopped by o passenger. He will recover.