Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

Labor contractors in Yucatan are said Co be holding white slaves. Astor money, It la said, will build a $6,000,000 hotel In London. Fire destroyed the business part of Joshua, Texas. Loss $40,000, Insurance SB,OOO. Col. John Ward Jordan, who commanded an Indiana regiment during the Civil War, is dead in Louisville. Norman A. Dodge was appointed United States commissioner at Fort Worth, Testas, te succeed T. J. Powell.