Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Fire in the Barbican district of London, crowded with warehouses and shops, caused damage estimated at $1,500,000. President Roosevelt has official communication sent to Gen. Funston expressing the wish that he stop talking publicly on the Philippines. It is announced that the gift John D. Rockefeller has made to the Southern educational movement is $1,000,000. This is the first announcement of the exact amount of the donation.

Idaville, Ind., was almost wiped out by fire Wednesday. The loss is about $50,000, with SB,OOO insurance. The town is without fire protection. Fifteen business firms were burned out. Bowles Colgate of New York, who until eighteen months ago was senior member of the manufacturing firm of Colgate & Co., is dead at Lakewood, N. J. Mr. Colgate was born fifty-six years ago. At Hull. Qik>., the house and stable of Thomas Hill caught fire, presumably through a stroke of lightning, and Hill, his wife and three children and Jcflin Watson, a hired man, were burned to death. Possibility of long and widespread tight us outcome of war on the Moros in Mindanao caused the President to direct Geu. Chaffee to exhaust diplomatic menus of settlement before opening hostilities. The steamboat Elko was burned to the water's edge in the Delaware and Raritan canal, just below Trenton, N. J. The boat carried freight between Philadelphia and New York. The loss is estimated at $50,000.

The Denver Times has l>cen sold by its bondholders for *IIO,OOO, David H. Moffat, preaident of the First National Bank, being the purchaser. A new company will be immediately organized to purchase the paper from Mr, Moffatt. The safe in the Van Buren County court house nt Clinton, Ark., was blown open and al»out *<l.ooo stolen. No clew to the robbers has been found. Because her stepfather, Joseph Wilke, was forced to sell his old homestead in St. Paul, to the Omaha Railway, Mrs. Hera ph I n M. Reinhart drank four ounces of carbolic acid and died soon afterward. 'Hie sale of the Kinney-Hawkins-Cros-by mine, a few miles west of Hibbing. Minn., to the Deering Harvester Company of Chicago has been closed and *525,000 was paid to the holders of the Isaac.