Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mnx Regis, Mayor of Algiers, was •tabbed in the neck at Oran. William Karlc Cook died at Portsmouth, 11. 1., aged 104 yours. Ida nnd Edith Yooland. actresses and •listers, committed suicide together in I .on dim. Jules Guerin's sentence lias been changed from imprisonment to exile because of his ill health. Carnegie has offered 120,000 to Mattoon. 111., and $25,000 to Stllwater. Mimi., for library buildings. la>rd ltoseberry has written nn address to the liberals, which is taken as his farewell to their party. William A, King of New Orleans, a brother of Grace King, the author, was asphyxiated at his houte in that city. The four-story salesrooms an I hide rrarehouac of Joseph Byrne & Co. lu St. Ism is. wus almost completely destroyed by fire. Loss $4. r >,ooo. Reeves Brothers’ boiler works at Alliance, Ohio, were destroyed by tire. Loss SIOO,OOO, with $40,000 insurance. Alfred Meredith, an employe, was fatally in J ured. Three boy bandits held up Agent Miller at Iloyne avenue station of the Metropolitan Klevnted road in Chicago and shot him in the arm, but secured no money. Austin Dobson, the British poet, lias resigned ns principal of the harbor and fisheries department of the Board of Trade ufter forty five years’ work In civil service. Fred Fourhrlm, a farmer of Bartlett. lowa, insanely jealous, murdered his wife, his (i-year old stepson, killed h.s favorite horse, set fire to his house ami committed suicide. The village of Warwick, Oat., has been almost entirely wiped out by lire. Twenty dwellings and stores and the Grand Trunk Railway station were burned. Loss $75,000, no insurance. During operations with a military balloon near SchluesHelburg. ©ti nu island in the Neva, Russia, the balloon exploded and biased up. One person was killed and twenty were injured, several fatally. A posse organised at Big Bandy, Mont,, to capture three alleged horse thieves, ‘’Bucking Bill,” Fred Coniine and Pete Wulter, has received word that the three men were hanged by another posse ou the Missouri river, near Judith. The commencement exercises at the Ohio Normal university at Adn, Ohio, degenerated Into a big row between seniors • nil juniors. Willis Miller, on trial at Upper Bandusky, Ohio, for murder, attuekisl court guard in attempt at escape and was asMiaU'd by brother and sister. He was overpowered after a desperate fight. The United Htates Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, with Cincinnati ns headquarters, wan incorporated ut Columbus. Ohio, to bnnd the vehicle manufacturers of the country together for mutual benefit. . .