Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Frank Koutch, 7, Delphos, 0., drowned while skating. Spain’s bill for increasing the navy was defeated in the chamber. Gov. Beckham's pluiVlity, as officially announced at Frankfort, Ky., is 3,089. Canadian royalty returns indicate the Kloifdike output this year was only $9,000,000. Jail prisoners in Oswego County, N. Y„ are to be employed iu the improvement of county highways. In ninety years the Spanish-speaking people of the world have increased from 20,190,000 to 42,800,000. A launch used by Napoleon and other historical relics were destroyed by a fire in the Cherbourg arsenal. Henry Segob New York, wrapped his 10-months-old babe iu rags, dropped it in a vacaut lot and started to run away. Arrested. President McKinley sent S3O to the fund for the victims of the Saxton block fire at Canton. Mrs. McKinley wus interested ns an heir in the block. Frank Smith, the Brooklyn district messenger who carried the greeting of American school boys to President Kru ger, was arrested for throwing a stone through a show ettse. Out in Kansas they are still paying claims for damages sustained iu the celebrated Qnautrell raid. Up to the present time $391,045.'45 has been paid. The unpaid outstanding claims amount t« $75,042.35.