Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Mary Boggus, 18, Sheffield, Alt., died of hydrophobia. Vermont Is to have an “old home week” In August. A building of twenty stories Is to go up on Fourth street, Cincinnati. Wolves are Increasing rapidly In the forest districts qf northern Canada. Seventy Chinese were drowned by the sinking of a Chinese steamer near Canton. Two hundred and fifty thousand millions of locusts were killed In Cyprus in two years. Chicago, with 70,000 arrests in a year and 4.000 miles of streets'to be paroled, has 8,300 policemen. The United Btates consuls report many lepers on the Caifary Islands, there being 200 on Tenertffe alone. Constable Farrell, Arlington, Tenn., struck a negro with his pistol. It exploded, the ball killing tho officer. Tho latest new building In New York, besides extending fifteon stories Into the •It, will have four stories underground.