Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

The amount of water flowing opt of tli< Nile is sixteen times that of the Thames The Roman roads, according to tlieit importance, were from 8 to 30 feet in width. , County attorney, Topeka, Ivan., has brought suit against fifty insurance companics' under the anti-trust laws of the Stnte. According to a Beaumont, Texas, dis patch, $1,250,000 w as paid by an Eastern syndicate for the property of the Texas Western Oil Coinpauy, formerly the Southwestern Oil Company of Corsicana, A hand of ruffians nt Basle, Switzerland, grilled with scissors, rushed through the atreets of that town recently, cutting off the hanging plaits of all the women they met. Some of them have been arrested, nnd heavy damages are claimed for “personal disfigurement.’* The State flower of Texas is to be the blue-bonnet, or buffalo clover, n wild flower which grows iu the greatest pro fusion over the whole State, at time* covering many acre* with a carpet of blue It is, seen iu masses, n most effectlv* blossom. The blue-bonnet grows about a foot high.