Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Mexico buys all of its shears an I sliarpodged tods from the United States. Formosa now has a railway nlsuit twenty-eight miles long, connecting Tainan with Takao. High school has been established iu Autolouia, Tatullu, Samoa, tinder American supervision. In boring for oil at Beaumont, Texas, it is reported that a vein of pure sulphur seventy feet thick was discovered. The Hungarian government has forbidden the practice of hypnotism, except by medical men and under special permission. Buttons and trimmings to the value of $1,083,800 were imported into the United Stutes from Paris ia a single Quarter last year. • Frank Trout, 17, Magnetic Springs, ().. burned to death. Brother and sister locked him in und went to town to do some shopping. About SO,OOO has beou subscribed to the fund to buy Admiral Schley u homo, at Washington. It's expected that $15,000 will be raised. Among the women who registered for the spring election at Ottawa, Ivan., is “Aunty" Lewis, 110, colored.