Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

George Brown, aged 43, and his nephew, Jim Brown, aged 22, fought with knives at Winchester, Ky., the latter being killed. George Brown may die. The entire manufacturing department of Chureh Brothers' pressed Urick works at Golden, Colo., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $100,(XX). Rafaello Farinacco, an Italian for ■whom the police of Cleveland have been seeking for nearly a year on the charge of murder, surrendered himself to the authorities. While bathing at East Battle Lake. N. D„ Allen Huel and Allen Harris, each 17 years of age, got beyond their depth and were drowned. Both belonged to prominent families. The thunderstorms which brought relief to Cincinnati assumed cyclonic proportion*,from Newport east to Fort Thomas and south into the State for a considerable distance. No lives were lost. Charles R. Flint is organizing a chair trust, the capital of which is said to lie SIO,(XX),(XX). Tlie combination will include about forty chair companies, or practically all the big concerns in the United States. Michael Kelly, a maniac, brooding over fancied wrongs, murdered John R. Garrett, a lumber merchant of Leavenworth, Kan., fatally wounded a physician, shot three policemen and a laborer ami was himself killed by the officers. William Hobson, a negro, wns accidentally shot and killed while passing u gun shop in Louisville by G. W. Steen, who •was testing a rifle. Steen was arrested The section men on all the railroads entering Columbus, Ohio, with the exception of the Norfolk and Western, have been granted an increase of 10 cents a day and will not strike, as threatened. It is reported that Gen. Delarey has informed tlie Klerksdorp commando that there is no longer any chance of European intervention, and that they must fight the war out to the bittor end entirely on their own account.