Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Molt at Soninimi, Miss., lynched John Jxuox for munlorinn his 10-ycur-old s!c)ijson. The French are angry at Ihe failure of Portugal to pay the interest on her foreign debt. There was a serious row in the French ehamber of deputies during debate on the associations bill. Thirty sophomores and freshmen of Monmouth College were arrested and titled for a class riot. Somalis attacked a I’ritish force of hot!, killing seventeen men, including I.iciit. Col. Maitland. Another shipload of Itussian sugar lias arrived at New York and the importers will pay tiie duty under protest. Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has resigned his post, tiie resignation to take effe t not later than March S. Lack of water pressure at a critical moment resulted in it ,s.'(( 1,000 tire loss in Ihe Strathmore, a fashionable apartment house at Broadway ami olid street, New York. John I>. Cassels. a sewing machine salesman, shot Mrs. Mary .1. Lane in Long Meadow, Mass., because she would not elope with him. lie then drunk poison. Both are dead. Fred Kern, a son of John \V. Kern of Indiana, committed suicide at a hotel in Washington, I*. by shooting himself through the heart, lie was UN years of age and unmarried. The Christian Scientists sustained defeat in Missouri when the Senate, by a vote of 20 to 7, refused to adopt their amendment to the medical bill and engrossed the bill by the same vote. (liih Siu, minister of public ceremonies, formerly grand secretary, and llstt Cheng Yu, vice-president of tiie ministry „of justice, were beheaded in Pekin in accordance with the imperial edict. Pearl Stockdell, aged 14, was getting dinner at Brownstown, Ind„ and while standing by the stove her Hewing hair caught tire. Site ran out into a cornfield and the wind fanned the Humes. She was hurtled to a crisp. Lunt Iv. Salisbury, City Attorney of (■rand ltupids, Mich., was indicted by the Cook County grand jury itt Chicago for the alleged larceny of $50,000 belonging to Guy C. Burton, the Omaha capitalist, and bis son, K. C. Barton. A ten-foot stone wall, erected in an excavation at 333 West Nineteenth street. New York, for a new building, caved in. Four Italian laborers were buried under the wall when it feij. Two were killed and two badly hurt. Chinese report that Ylttg Lien and Chao Shu Chun have committed suicide, and Japanese have delivered up Hsu Chang Yu for execution. W. Munhnll of Pittsburg has closed lease contracts for 150.000 acres of land in Brazoria County, Texas, to prospect for oil. Other persons have closed eon tracts for 50,(Hitt acres more. A boiler which furnished power for a sawmill on the farm of George lloover at Bellefontaine, Ohio, exploded and fatally injured five men. The only one who wil able to go after a doctor had been blown over a wood pile 100 feet distant.