Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Benjamin D. Silliman left SI(>O,(MH) to The cession of Sibutu anti Cagayan <le Jolo Islands to the United States has been gazetted in Madrid. At Greenville, Ohio, fire destroyed the Johnson & Trainor grain elevator and contents. The origin of the blaze is said to be incendiary. The loss is $20,000, insurance $7,000. The probate judge of Toledo, Ohio, has decided that all prisoners committed to the city workhouse without a transcript ot'trial accompanying the commitments are unlawfully detained. tn a row in the Italian quarter at the north end of Boston one man was killed and three were wounded seriously. One of the men, Raphael Faila, is under arrest, charged with murder. Edward D. Cornell, a retired hat manufacturer and for many years president of the Hatters' Union, committed suicide by hanging. Heavy losses in the stock market are said to have prompted the The protest of \V. E. Apperson and .1. M. Stuart against the patent isstied to tli6 Camp Bird-Tom Walsh Mining Com- , any for a mill site at Montrose, Colo., has been dismissed by Land Receiver Fink. •Two women were killed, four men were injured mid several other persons narrowly escaped death in n fire which destroyed the Hotel Jefferson, a sevenstory brick building nt 102-106 East Fifteenth street, New York. Sir Cavendish Boyle, K. C. M. G. government secretary of British Guiana since ISDIi, has been appointed governor of Newfoundland, succeeding Sit Henry Edward McCallum, recently appointed governor of Natal. Mrs. Rademakcr of Kansas City. Kan., was knocked down and rendered unconscious near her home by n footpnd. Her assailant struck her with a club, and becoming alarmed by npproacldng pedestrians ran away without robbing her. 11. W. Pearson of Duluth. Minn., has sued J. J. Hill ami the Great Northern Railroad for $1,500,000 as vompensation for discovering coal lauds. At the session of the National Association of Ornamental (rfuss Manufacturers at Louisville, Ky., A. L. Brown of Chicago was elected president nnd A. J. ffXiuler of the same city treasurer. Dr. A. A. Ames, four times Mayor of Minneapolis, is shocked ns the result of n midnight slumming lour and proposes to reform the saloons of the city. The order has gone forth that all winerooms must be torn out at once.