Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Queen of Sweden is said to be suffering from a dangerous throat affliction. Six-year-old girl was crushed to death in u bargain counter rush in u Brooklyn store. Prof. Sir Felix Semon flatly denies the story that King Edward has cancer of the throat. Blackford, Ky., was destroyed l>y lire. New York Assembly lins passed the Platt police bill. The Federal Salt Company has obtained control of the Herman Island works in the Gulf of California and now controls the output on the Pacific coast. In consequence of the recent death of Baron William You Rothschild, Baron Armand De Rothschild of Paris becomes the head of the Frankfort banking house of the family. The steamer Daisy, Captain Ot tender* fer, plying on Warrior river, in Alabama, was demolished by an accident and Engineer Glover was killed. Two barges of stone were lost. Kltmde Alreisen, a discharged employs - of the Sheffield Farm Dairy Company, was fatally shot while in the act of robbing one of the company's stores at 281 Lenox avenue, New York. Thirty thousand more British troops are to be poured into South Africa. In a war office bulletin it is announced that the government has decided to heavily re-enforce Lord Kitchener. At Akron, Ohio, a perpetual injunction hss been granted against a combination of the cereal companies. The action was commenced by Mrs. Nellie L. Hower, a stockholder in the American Cereal Company. The Amerjean Cigar Company has bought the factory of the Hummel & Vogt Company at Louisville, Ky. It is said the factory's capacity will be increased from 12,000,000 to 100,000,000 annually. The Frunco-Beigiun Railroad from Pekin to Ilnnkow, 135 kilometers of which was destroyed, bus been completely restored and traffic has been resumed. The track has now been built into the city of rekin. A fire supposed to have boon started by trumps destroyed the residence and farm buildings of Guy Whiteside of Tynehcud, H. C., and burned to death his two children, who were asleep whcji the fiatnes broke out. * Joseph Muldowuoy, a clerk in the North American Transportation and Trading Company's store at Rampart, on the Yukon, wns shot and killed hy Don Carrollton, who was jealous of Mulduwney's attentions to Mrs. Carrollton. President McKinley has conditionally accepted Invitations to visit Little Rock, Ark., and Han Jose, Cal., on his western tour. Fire at Evansville, Ind., destroyed the dry goods house of Lnhcr, Bacon & Co., entailing a loss of $150,000. Losses to neighboring firms will be SIO,OOO, with partial insurance. Two person* perished and three were fatally Injured in n fire which totally destroyed the Exposition Hotel in Binghamton, N. Y. The monetary loss on the building and effects will amount to $lO,000.