Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Bulgarians arrested at Salonica will be court martialed for treason. Forty-eight Chinese weri captured on the border north of .Malone, N. Y. - Judge E. E. Wells has been nominated for Mayor of Denver by the Democrats. Sheffield steel manufacturers contemplate establishing works in the l'nited States. Russians and English arc having an ugly dispute over u small piece of laud at Tien-tsiii. New York woman lias sued for divorce because her husband refuses to enter into conversation with her. British naval budget amounts to £30.875,500 and Includes five submarine boats of the Holland type. Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third I’rcsideut of the United States, died Wednesday afternoon in Indianapolis. ' Civil rule has been established in Taynbas province, southern Luzon, Col. Hardener being made governor. Soldiers from Fort Harrison created a serious riot in Helena, Mont., because of the abolition of their canteen. Miss Belle Taslev, aged 28, committed suicide by banging herself near Fulton, Mo. She had quarreled with her lover. The J. X. Falls Grocery Company of Memphis made an assignment, scheduling liabilities of $39,000. assets $95,000. The Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. the youngest sister of the Czar, has Iteen betrothed to Prince Peter Alexandrovitcb of Oldenburg. The Supreme Court of Missouri hns sentenced Ellsworth Evans, colored, to be hanged in Cooper County April 12, for tlie murder of u Boonville polieemnn. A receiver has been appointed for the Ohio Debenture Company of Columbus o« application of F. Green, a stockholder, who says the debts are $225,000 and assets $75,000. The Jamaican government hns empowered the British ambassador at Washington to extend to one yeaif the tinie for the ratification of the reciprocity convention witty America. P. 11. Itcmilard, vice-president of the Kcmilnrd Brick Company, a well-known San Francisco club nud business man, died from injuries received in falling from a tire OHcaiie of a downtown restaurant. The body of Sherman Harris, n negro, was found swinging from a tree alongside the Spellman load, six miles below Spellman, Ga. Harris killed Sidney King, a merchant and fanner, iu an altercation. Tti'ii communications from Andrew Carnegie tell of the steel king's retirement from active hnsiness life mol of his ilonnt ion of $5,000,000 for the endow incut of n fund for superannuated and disabled employes of the Carnegie company. Andrew Carnegie gave for library buildings $50,000 to Yonkers, X. Y.: $lO,000 to Newcastle, Pa., and $15,000 to Greenvllly,, Ohio. The body of Edward Almy. nn electrical engineer who disappeared from Macon, Gn., was found iu the Ocmulger river. 11c hud been murdered by robbers. A fire which caused a loss of $50,000 occurred at Cainsville, Mo. One shle of a whole square was destroyed. Those who suffered the greatest losses are J. M. Mom ft M. F. Oxford ft Hon and O. & Neal.