Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

President Pin* of Mexico lias recovered from his late illness. Baron Inverclyde, chairman of the Canard Steamship Company, is dead. Prof. P'Arsonval of Paris says Frence has solved the problem of submarine navigation. . The Supreme Court Jr Missouri lots rendered a decision upholding the pure food law of that State. Boston Museum of Fine Arts Ims paid SBO,OOO for Velasquez's "Prints* Balthasar Carlos and llis Dwarf.” Holla Wells was unauiraously nominatetl for world's fair mayor l>y the city Democratic convention of St. Bonis. At \\ ilkcsbarre, Pa., Thomas H. Jones lihsl an applieution for n divorce from liis wife Mary on the ground of cold feet. B. M. Trumbull, former general eonimel for the Texas Patdlic Railway, was accidentally killed liy a train at St. Louis. Mrs. Thomas C. Platt, wife of United States Senator Platt, died at her apartments in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, after a long illness. Son of an officer of the Russian secret police committed suicide to escape making nn attempt on the life of the Czar, for which he hail been chosen by a hand of conspirators. At Kingsluiul, N. .1., the premature explosion of a dynamite blast killed John Gorman, burling his hotly 300 feet. A su loon near by was totally wrecked, as was IteliwoldCs Hotel. Thomas Cooney of Helena, Mont., Ims just made one of thu richest strikes ever made in Montana at his Blue Crouse mine. Cooney exhibited samples of m-e from the new discovery tlmt ussay lietween s2.»mio and s2.stm per ton. The ladler in the sawmill of C. Boudell at Chickasaw, south of Cclinn, Ohio, exploded, killing one mau and probably fatally injuring three others. Francis McCormack, ngej 8, died at Kprlngfichl, Mass., from lockjaw, resulting from vaccination. In coasting the boy was thrown from his sled ami the vaeciuutiou seuh Was torn from his arm. The (treat Lakea Towing Company hu» set aside a fund of SIOO,OOO to carry on a war of extermination against the Maythan) Towiug and Wrecking Company, providing for it by postponing the pay* anent of a pledged dividend.