Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Andrew Carnegie has offered n s4i>.(M'<t library to Jopiin, Mo., on the usual conditions. The wage question was decided in favor of the manufacturers at the glass men's conference at Atlantic City. The existing system of payment of wages will not be changed. Walter Sheppard was shot and instantly killed by Henry Vittatoe, near Pleasure Ridge, Ky. The young men ha I quarreled, shaken hands, and then resumed their quarrel. Isaac Lane ami wife were shot to death on Island Sixty-six in the Mississippi river, near Helena, Ark. Will Kelly mid Frank Cannon, charged with the crime, were captured after a desperate fight. R. L. Fosburg, the father of May Fosburg. who was killed Aug. 20, 1900, has withdrawn all rewards previously offered and substituted one of $1,500 for the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties Three men, said to be gamblers, engag ed in a pistol fight at one of the busiest corners in Denver, with the result that three bystanders were wounded. Ti e principals escaped unhurt and all wire arrested. Gen. A. B. Nettleton of Chicago has signed a contract with the Mexican government for the water concession of tin Mochis canal, in the State of Sinaloa, for the purpose of irrigating a large trad for the cultivation of sugar. R. T. TaUafero and wife, found dead nt then- home in Carroll County, Mississippi, are believed to have been murdered by negror-s out of revenge for the recent killing of a young negro who attempted to poison the TaUafero family. Rafael Grits, the Porto Rican wh ise conviction for killing an American soldier was made a test case between civil and military law over the island, has asked President McKinley for a pardon. He is confined in the Minnesota penitentiary. Frederick Bchurmnn, the 10-months-old child of President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell University, died at lihaca, N. Y., after a very brief illness, • Mark L. Wilson, actor and theatrical manager, committed suicide tn Philadelphia by inhaling illuminating gas. His health and finances were alike in po ir condition. John Gulick, who is confined in t'.e county jail at Shamokin, Pa., charged with the murder of his mother and brother, cut his throat with a table knife, an I was dying from loss of blood when he Was discovered. He may recover.