Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Cruiser New York will go to Manila via Suez. New steel trust will control 124 vessels on the lakes. Sultan of Turkey is willing to pay 0 per cent for a hig loan. W. C. (.’lark, (12, Denver, Colo., fell down stairs and broke his neck. A new law in Montana provides that tile judge’s charge shall precede the at gllllieuts of counsel. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has decided «lint a hank nipt is exempt from paying alimony. Louise Gibbons, a young woman of 22 years, ut Springfield, Ohio, was made deaf h.v sneezing. On a recent scientific test, a worker in metals succeeded in drawing a penny out into 5,700 feet of wire. An east-hound 47th street electric car, Chicago, crowded with passengers, crashed into a buggy and killed two men. The 5-year-old daughter of Engineer Herman Richards, Ashtabula, Ohio, burned to death. Played with fire while alone. Four hundred persons are claiming/ part of the |2,000,000 estate left by Baron Kohertaon Masson, who recently died, Austin, Texas. Lincoln. Neb., fire department will try to secure pardon for Nicholas Fox, a convict, for valiant assistance during the fire at the penitentary.