Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Cecil Rhodes, the colossus of South Africa, died at Cape Town after a long illness. Forty cases of cholera and thirty deaths front that disease have been re ported at Manila. Mrs. Hattie Hand and her two small children were overtaken by a prairie tire and burned to death near Anadarko, Ok. Nebraska anti-oleomargarine law was declared valid in a test case, a Lincoln firm being fined for coloring its product yellow. Knits aggregating $1,800,000 have been begun against the New York Central Road as a result of the Park avenue tunnel accident. Professor Regie Chauvcnet has resigned the presidency of the Colorado State schpol of mines and will retire at the end of the school year. Mrs. Julia Birdsall, of Philadelphia, accused of embezzling $15,000 that her dogs might have every human comfort, has been arrested in Atlanta. The will of George L. Littlefield, of Pawtucket, R. 1., leaves to Brown University in Providence a sum variously estimated at $500,000 to $1,600,000. Lawyer Albert T. Patrick was convicted at New York of the murder of William Marsh Rice to secure latter's property worth millions. Sentence was deferred. Five sections of n west-bound passenger on the Great Northern Railroad passed through Kalispell, Mont., with about 3.000 people who are seeking homes in the West. A Rock Island passenger train struck a buggy in East Pueblo, Colo., killing Mrs. John Close and her infant son and fatally injuring Miss Ella Hines, aged 21 years. George Kudera. a Bohemian farmer living near Clatonia. Neb., was shot and instantly killed by George Herz.oe, son of a neighbor. There had been a quarrel between the two families. Senator Hanna and J. P. Morgan held a conference in New York, as a result of which, it is said, there will be no strike of coal miners this year. Both sides are expected to make concessions. Frank Huntley, a veteran of Santiago and a member of the crei» of the battleship Oregon, was killed by falling down ;t ladder way while escorting a couple of lady visitors through the ship at Seattle, Wash. Thomas Mahan, formerly a postal clerk and a prominent Democratic politician, was found on the road near Norwalk. Ohio, dead, with a broken neck. It is supposed that he fell from an attack of apoplexy. Standing on the parapet encircling the dome of the capital at Washington. 375 feet above the level of the street, Honor Andres Diaz y I’airo of Cuba and Miss Catherine McConachie were united in marriage. The building of the Omaha Mutch Company, in a suburb of Omaha, was destroyed by fire. The lots is $50,000. The factory was established about two months ago. Machinery costing $30,000 was destroyed. Work on the World’s Fair nt St. Louis has progressed so far that it is possible for a casual visitor to make out roughly the main features of the picture which is to be painted on the site with buildings, lagoons, trees and avenues. Reports of the result of the combined movement of British columns against Gen. Delarey have enabled Lord Kitchener to announ<*e the capture of 135 prisoners, three fifteen-pounders, two pompoms and quantities of stock, wagons, etc. Gen. Delarey appears to lnye evaded Ix>rd Kitchener's cordon successfully nt the offset. A helper engine on u freight train blew up while going up Lake hill, seventy Httics west of Ogden, Utah. William Wilton, engineer, of Ogden, E. A. Uphoff. brakeman, and an unknown tramp were Milted-