Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Secretary Hay denies that he has submitted to Lord I‘uuneefote a new canal treaty. The total catch of seals during the season just closed was 350,000, valued at $600,000. Three women in Christiania are accused of having killed twenty-seven infants at their baby farm. Gen. Chaffee is reported to have said, at a ‘‘smoker” in Pekin, that British anil Americans never will tight each other. Between 700 and SOU employes of brick and tile manufacturing firms in St. Louis struck to emphasize a demand made for a 10 per cent advance in wages. While hurrying to attend the funeral of his son-in-law, Jacob Loistad, aged 82 years, was caught under the wheels of a passenger train at St. Paul, Minn., and killed. The Nashville limited, on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, ran into a train of gravel curs at Clinton, Ind., injuring four persons and badly shaking up the passengers. The smallpox is spreading rapidly through Indiana, and as there is no law preventing unvaccinatufl children from attending school, the health authorities fear the epidemic will get beyond control. Walter B. Stevens, the well-known Washington correspondent, has resigned his position with the St. Ixmis GlobeDemocrat and announces his acceptance of the position of secretary to the world's fair corporation. Kix men and one woman are charged with direct complicity in the recent aeries of tires in the southern portion of Macon County, Mo., with the object of swindling insurance companies. Seven arrests have been made. The employes of the United Traction Company, which operates the surface street car lines in Albany, Troy, Cohoes, Watervliet and Rensselaer, N. Y., went on a strike. The car lines in the five cities were completely tied up. Ministers at Pekin have decided to make a joint demand on China for indemnity of 450,000,000 taels (about $315,000,0001. Announcement is made of the engagement of L. W. Hill, son of J. J. Hill and president of the Eastern Minnesota Rail road, to Miss Maud Taylor. Miss Taylor is a nurse in a New York hospital. A strike among the machinists emftloyed at the Pressed Steel Car Works n McKee’s Rocks, Pa., has been officially declared. The dispute was caused by the discharge of six union machinist*