Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The Postmaster General lias decided not to issue McKinley memorial stamps because of the length of time required to prepare them. Chicago capitalists are negotiating for a 99-year license to build a water system on the Island of Hawaii and sell the water for irrigation, domestic and (lower uses. A dispatch from Sandusky, Ohio, says: “A. C. McKnight, aged 30, a prominent physician of 'Washington, 1). (’., fell from a small boat while fishing in the bay and was drowned. George Johnson, colored, aged 37, of Brooklyn, died from the effects of a blowon the point of the jaw, received in a friendly bout with Tommy Wets, the welterweight pugilist. Miss Alice Roosevelt, the President's eldest daughter, is handsomely remembered in the will of Nathaniel Hawthorne Cusack of Washington. Miss Roosevelt is remembered with SIOO,OOO. A man supposed to lie Neils I.ippscott held up and robbed the Sheridan-Big Horn stage near Big Horn, Wyo. Sheriff Neilson of Sheridan took the trail with a posse and captured Lippscott in the eastern part of Sheridan County. Ex-Gov. Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee and Mrs. Alice Fitts Hill of Montgomery, Ala., were married at Tuscaloosa, Ala. W. E. Lovilal, secretary of the California Hop Growers' Association, has issued a circular in which he estimates that the crop is short on the Pacific coast between IH.OOO and 21,000 hales. The will of Harvey Scott has been admitted to probate at Faribault, Minn., lint the $43,500 in cash which hi the will had been ordered burned will tie divided aiuong the heirs, who reside in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota and California.