Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Five business buildings were burned nt Britton, S. I). Loss, S3o.iMM», partly covered by insurance. Two men were killed and two seriously injured by an explosion which destroyel n grist mill nt Big Springs, W. Va. It Is supposed dynamite had been placed in the grist. Frank .Tacks, a poor farmer, found a pot containing over $20,(l0t) in gold in Madison ('minty, Alabama, It is suphave been secreted during the Civil War. ’ Jack Winters, who got away with $320,000 in gold bullion from the Selby smelting works at Martinez, Cal., and afterward confessed, was sentenced to fifteen years'at Folsom. A charge of dynamite exploded in a stone quarry just outside of Baltimore ami blew two negroes to atoms. They were Braxton Jasper and Edward Jittus and were employed by Sehwind & Co. The Hamilton. Ohio, branch of the American Can Company has discharged 300 men, half its force, because of the failure of the fruit and vegetable crop, having reduced the demand for cans to such a great extent. The house of I’. Byrne nt Currie, Minn., was completely consumed and three children are dead and a fourth probably dying from burns. The parents were in the harvest Held and the origin of the tire is unknown. J. W. MeArthu r, a well-known labor leader of Houston, Tex., committed suicide. He shot himself through the head. Henry Dolan, who died in New York, n few days ago, left an estate valued at $8,000,(MN). Bis property is to go, it is understood, to his niece, Mary L. DeForrest, of Irving, Kan. She is the daughter of his only brother. Otto Fniilkenbiirg, once known as the White Cay leader of Perry County, for which he served five years in the State prison, was shot, it is charged, by Andrew Lamon, near Branchville, I nd. The deed is the result of an old feud.