Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A case of smallpox has caused a scare iu the University of Minnesota. Charles M. Schwab denies that he played for high stakes at Monte Carlo. President Haskins has been unanimously re-elected by the Ohio Mine Workers. The Ilarvnrd-Priueeton debate will take place at Cambridge, Mass., on the evening of March 28. Russell Sage lias been sued for $75,IDK) for breach of contract by Isabella d'Ajuria. Details are not given. The Chicago Woman's Club exonerated Mrs. Alice Bradford Wiles from all responsibility for the anonymous letter attacking Mrs. Parson. Complete returns from Canadian census show population of 5,399,an increase of 530,427 in ten years, the western provinces making the best showing. The four-story building at 1008 St Charles street, St. Louis, occupied by the l’rtmium Shirt Manufacturing Company, was burned and the contents destroyed, causing an estimated loss of $250,000. At Stillwater, Minn., fire destroyed the dry goods store of Peterson, Papiueau & Co., and a number of people had a narrow escape from death. The plate glass windows were blown out by an explosion. At Pruex. Austria, the Jupiter mine was suddenly flooded and forty-three men, including the manager and two superintendents, were out off from escape. It is thought probable that they were all drowned. Lieut. John IV. Stnrk of the Virginia Slate Guard, charged with sending obscene matter through the mnils to the President of the United States, bus been held to the grand Jury, which meets at Richmond, Vn., in April. Lord Kitchener reports to tKe London war office that Gen. Louis Botha lias escaped Gen. Bruce Hamilton after u seven miles' chase. One Boer was killed and thirty-three taken prisoners. Some rifles, .cattle, etc., were captured. Col. Myron T. Herrick, treasurer of the McKinley Memorial Association, says few contribution* have been received from wealthy men, and that the bulk of the memorial fund has come from wageearners and school children. The body of Sturgis E. Jones, former Mayor of Roanoke, Va.. Wits found in the Ohio river at Huntington, W. Vn. Indications point tv suicide. Beno llinteil.ilzer and James Person were killed and three other men injured near Mackey, Idaho, by the explosion of an old charge of dynamite which they were trying to dig up. Fh'e started in the interior of the A. J. Stillwell \ Co.’s cold storage plant nt Hannibal, Mo. Iu the building were stored 12,000 barrels of apples anil other perishable goods. The loss will not fall short of $50,000.