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

BREVITIES.

Dim Antonio de Bourbon snys ho will seek divorce from tin* Infanta Eulalia. Court of inquiry will investigate insubordination of spy oral West Point cadets. President has adopted (Jen. Milts' suggestion to enlist an army of 70,000 men. Three officers of the Canadiau Dragoons have been given the Victoria Cross. Louis Uotlard will try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon, starting from New York. Grand jury at New York has ordered Indictments for murder and forgery against Albert T. Patrick. Emperor of China has issued an edict abolishing the privy council and substituting a general board of state affairs. At Springfield. 111., the remains of President and Mrs. Lincoln, their three sons and grandson were transferred front the temporary vault to the new structure especially prepared for them. Over 2,(t00 union machinists of Cincinnati made a demand for an increase of 12V6 per cent in wages in addition to nine hours per day. and fixed May 20 as the limit for concessions or a strike. For five hours on a recent night the mountain detective (Wright’s! posse and gang in Letcher County. Ky., lav out against each other and three badly hurt mountaineers testify to the skill of the attacking party. William Hitter’s body was found hanging from a rafter in the barn at 48 West North avenue, Chicago. 11,. lost his posi tiou and us a result was very despondent. Mis wife died a year ago, leaving him to care for the three small children. The Sultan of Turkey has made another promise to pay the Coiled States tiie claim of $100,(MH1 which this nation lias held against him for many years ami which on two occasions has nearly led to a severing of diplomatic relations. Sidney Cole of Parkersburg, W. Va., shot and killed William T. Terry, a carpenter, on the steamer Keystone State. One or the largest property transfers In the Luke Superior ore regions iu Minnesota occurred when P. L. Kimberly of Sharon. Pa., sold his three big mines In Jones A Lnughltus. manufacturers,' of Pittsburg, for $2,500,000. John Costello, np ol.d-time circus down, was taken suddenly ill and died at Taylor's Hotel. New York. According lo on > of his friends the man's circus nauie was J»on Costello, and he was for many years «nc of til" (downs )u Bornum's shows.