Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The 500-barrei flour mill of 11. 11. King & Co., located at Gordon, Minn., was entirely destroyed by tire. The Norwegian government commission appointed to report upon submarine boats has decided in favor of the Holland type. The Commercial Club and City Council of Omaha have joined in an invitation to the National Editorial Association to meet in that city in 1903. James Whitfield, president of the West ern Baseball league, committed suicide at Kansas City. Overwork and financial worries were the supposed causes. Justice Gaynor of the New York Supreme Court has decided that it is not libelous to publish of a ju-rson that he has consumption or that he once had it. Carl J. Carrollson, tailor, of Mum-ie, Ind., claims to be grandson and heir of William Marsh Rice. for whose murder Albert T. Patrick has been sentenced to death. A frog five inches long, which probably had been swallowed in drinking water when it was much smaller, was taken from a woman's stomach at Williamsburg, N. Y. Dresden has a most sensational ease of infantile depravity. A boy 9 years of age has been arrested, accused of drowning seven small children by throwing them into the Elbe. Gen. Kitchener reports to the war office that the trial of Commandant Ki-itz-inger has ended in" his acquittal, and he was accordingly treated as an ordinary prisoner of war. F. Godfirnon, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Falls City, Nob,, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Despondency is assigned the most probable cause. The estate of the late Philip D, Armour of Chicago amounts to $14,751,106 ami to a large extent consists of personal property. This figure covers, however, only the property in Chicago and New York.* King Leopold was mobbed by socl<k|is(a on his arrival in Brussels from Bhirrita, The meeting between the socialists and the King was quite accidental. The King <*ca|H-d after a few very unpleasant minutes. The American Iron and Htee) Asaocl.ltion reports that the total production of often hearth steel in the United States in 1901, including direct steel castings, was 4,850,399 gross tons, against 3,398,145 tone in IiMMI, an increase of 1,258,154 tons. The production of open hearth-steel lias more than doubled in the last four years. Lee Gallagher, the paying teller of the First National Bank of Ht. Joseph. M<>., was arrested on n charge of embeasHng funds at the bank. The specific sum is alleged to be 12,000. Gallagher confeased that he is an embezzler.