Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Hugh J. Bonner, former fire chief of New York, liar, been chosen to organize the fire departments in the Philippines. Germany will postpone a display of force in Venezuela pending the outcome of the revolution. In the event that Castro is overthrown the new head of government will probably come to satisfactory terms. YVreek and fire destroyed, near Glencoe, Pa., the through passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio road for .New York, causing the death of two persons and injury to seventeen others, five of whom are seriously hurt. Miner's Eighth avenue theater, in New York, was destroyed by fire. The audience had been out of the huildiug only übout fifteen minutes when the fire started. It was caused by a lighted cigarette. The loss will be *'.>oo.ooo. The Sacred Heart College, attached to St. Joseph's Church. Cohoes, N. Y., was totally destroyed, and St. Ann’s convent, which adjoins it, was badly damaged by tire. Mgr. lbigas of St. Joseph's Church estimates the total dutuage at S<K),OUO, Sybil Sanderson announces her engagement to Comte I>o Fit* James. The ceremony will take plaeo some time late in January. Crowds attending the New Year's reception at the White House broke nil records. President Roosevelt shaking the hands of 8,100 persons and showing i>o weariness when bis task waa over. G. 11. Mull, firemau on the Erie Railroad, leaped from the cab of an eugiuu near Lima, Ohio, and was killed. Ho thought a train on n siding was about to crashdnto bis engine. His home was in UaUvn