Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Johu 1). Rockefeller has given another $250,000 to Brown University. Andrew Carnegie is to belasked lo give a library building to Ash ta hit la, Ohio. John Hawkins was instantly killed in a fight at Centralia, Mo., by Riley Mi-Ken zie. The building of the Milwaukee Herohl and the entire plant was destroyed by fire. Holland’s present to Queen Willie! tnina will lie u new crown, for which £20,000 has been subscribed. At Clnrksfield. Minn., Mrs. C. J. Brce and baby daughter were burned to death by a gasoline stove explosion. Tout 1.. Johnson was nominated for Mayor in the Democratic primaries nt Cleveland. He hud no opposition. Thomas O'Donnell of Kerry addressed the House of Commons in the Irish lan guage until tin* speaker protested. It is reported in Brussels that American and European financiers have formed a great combine to control China's trade. The Hoard of Health of Philadelphia announced that thi‘ bodies of fifty babies have been found buried in thin paper boxes in a trench in Somerton Mill cemetery. An investigation has been stalled. The old cadets at Kenyon Military Academy in Ohio have signed and delivered to the regents a pledge that they will neither engage in nor assist in any form of hazing or annoying a fellowcadet. Charles E. lVrkins has resigned the office of president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and George B. Harris, second vice-president of the compqn.v, has been made president in Mr. Perkins' place. In Minneapolis Frank 11. Hamilton was declared guilty of manslaughter by a jury which had deliberated forty hours over the testimony concerning the mui der of Leonard Day in the billiard room Of the Hotel West Nov. 25. The Maunwu coal plant of the Pittsburg Coal Company uear Monongahela, Pa., was destroyed bv fire. The loss is between $35,000 and $50,000. One hundred men were at work in the mine, bill escaped by the rear entrance. The whole crest of a mountain over a mile in circumference slipped into Loughborough inlet, 100 miles from Vancouver, B. C., up the rocky British Columbia const, last Saturday. The great slide was the result of iiu earthquake. Fire destroyed the sawmill and lumber yard of A. Wilbert Sons in Plaqueniine, I,a. laws SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insura nee. At the point of a revolver a negro held John Tussong. it Columbus, Ohio, jeweler, at hay while he rifled a drawer containing fifty watches valued at SI,OOO. He escaped with his booty. The Cincinnati Traction Company was incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, with a capital stock of $2,000,000. It was organised for the purpose of leasing and operating the entire street railway system of Cincinnati.