Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

1 ami Roberts' failing health is worrying his friends. (Jen. Malvar has declared himself dictator to succeed Aguinaldo. Queen -Draga of Scrvia has resumed her place at the royal table. Admiral Schley has reached New York and found his son recovering. Rudynrd Kipling lost his copyright suit against (!. P. Putnam's Sons. Three Russian officers have Ik>cii sentenced to six months' imprisonment for mapping Nagasaki harbor. Ex-Senator Pettigrew denies the story that he hns been offered the presidency of the Northern'Pacific Railroad. Bread, the assassin of the late King Humbert, hns committed suicide at the penitentiary of Santo Stefnno, Italy. Horace AN'. Means of Lexington. Ky., one of the best-known tobacco dealers in central Kentucky, committed suicide. The National Carfh Register factory at Dayton, Ohio, employing 11,.1<H> men, has shut down because of labor disturbances. The puddlers and dependent workers at the American iron and steel works, I Lebanon. Pa., have been given notice of another increase of wages to take effect oil June 3. Percy 1,. Johnson, an attorney, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of $50,000 from three trust funds and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the Connecticut State prison. The Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the World has voted to expel members who engage in the liquor business and to revoke the charters of camps refusing to obey this provision. At Marseilles, HI., fire that started under the print paper machine from an unknown cause, caused a loss of nearly $200,000 to the large and finely constructed plant of the W. P. Hoyce Paper Mills Company. Another attempt has been made to blow up the cold springs dam on the Sauk river, near St. Cloud, Minn. Two charges of dynamite were used.- One exploded with but little effect, and tin' other failed to go off. Mrs. Elmer Quiiuby, wife of a farmer living near St. Louis, killed her two children. a boy aged 7 ami a girl aged 0, by giving them morphine. Mrs. Qulmby tried to end her own life, but took too heavy a dose and will recover. In the court of quarter sessions. No. 2, in Philadelphia, Ueo. B. Whitney pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $4,<KlO, the property of the Morris Beef Company of Chicago. Whitney was the resident manager of the company. Topeka is now under control of the "dry” element, the State Supreme Court having decided that J. NV. K. Hughes Is the legal Mayor. Ernest J. Walter, charged with send ing a letter threatening to kidnap a son of Senatoy Kearns, hns been set free at Omaha, his attorneys showing that kid naping is not a crime under federal law. Aa the result of too much athletic ex erclae Miss Mnml Wright, a member of the class of 1002 at Vossar College, Is Sot expected to live. Her home is in Hinsdale, 111.- She has appendicitis, induced by too much walking.