Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Texas State rangers have killed another Mexican horse thief and outlaw. John Christie is said to have died from a beating received in Bellevue hospital, New York. Five hundred native Christians were murdered by Corcans on the Island of Quelpaert. Judge Palmer of Denver has cited for contempt several ministers who criticised his action in saloon cases. Hans Wagner of the Tagehlatt staff was mortally wounded by another journalist in a due) near Berlin. John I). Rockefeller has given $250,000 to Cornell University. Mr. Rockefeller's act is a great surprise to Cornelllans. Nearly 500 chests of tea have been stolen from a storehouse in Williamsburg. N. Y., but moat of them were recovered. According to private dispatches from Rio de Janeiro, rioting is going on there as a result of increased street car fares. Frank Bolton of Newark, Ohio, is believer to have perished in the hotel fire at West Baden. Ind. He was u guest at the hotel and nothing has since been heard of him. The Brazilian Government has paid the indemnity requested for the destruction by a mob of a Baptist chaise) in the province of Nictheroy, maintained by the American Baptist mission. At Butte, Mont., Miss Mabel Durfield Foster was married to William Andrews Clark, Jr., son of Senator W. A. Clark. The father of the groom presented his sou with a check for SIOO,OOO. Jerome Brown, the 10-year-old boy mlsalqg.from his home in Chicago, was found drowned in the lake. He had fallen from a pier. Cyrlll W. King, former construction quartermaster at Fort Morgan, Ala., has been sentences) to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year and a half and to pay a One of $3,000. The grand Jury at Cleveland, Ohio, reported up true bills in the case of Augustus Hubbell, and the officials of the Cleveland Leader Publishing Company, who were charged with libel. Tom L. Johnson caused their arrest.