Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Emperor Kranz Josef of Austria celebrated bis seventy-second birthday. Senor Emilio Terry, secretary of agriculture in the Cuban cabinet, has resigned, Lieut. Berthoff of the revenue cutter service has discovered n now fur’ seal rookery in the Aleutian Islands. There is great excitement in the peninsula of Yucatan, where petroleum has been discovered in paying quantities. Associate .Justice Shiras of the United States Supreme Court is to retire next year, and the fact is admitted by his son. A delayed blast caused the death of Peter Olsen and William Ladd in the Ohio-Deadwood tunnel at Hochford, S. 1). Patrick Botkin, Michael Dunning and William D. Kay wore rescued at Buff-do, N. Y., after clinging to an upset boat in Lake Erie all night. William Ilolabird. Jr., one of the best known young golfers in the western hemisphere, died at his home in Evanston, 1)1., after a long illness of typhoid fever. A Lake Erie and Western passenger train was derailed and wrecked at the crossing of the Northern Ohio and Lake Erie and Western road at Bluffton. Ohio. William Francisco, engineer, was killed and Edward Montague, engineer, and U. G. Ilontehin, fireman, severely injured in a collision in the Burlington yards at Holdrege, Neb, Prof. Pickering of Harvard has received word from the Harvard station nt Arequipa, Peru, that the planet Eros has been rediscovered. The planet disappeared in May, 1901. A pontoon, containing a detachment of Russian infantry across the Amur, near Pushkova, sunk and five officers, thirty men and about seventy Chinese camp followers were drowned. The longshoremen mid lightermen of all classes ami the dock laborers went out on strike nt Havana, Cubit. They have several grievances, one being that- coal should be unloaded per ton instead of by day wages. The Mutual Building and Loan Association of I’n saie, N. J., of which William Malcolm was secretary for twenty years ami whose accounts were recently found to be $ Il* 1,000 short, has suspended business. Fire of unknown origin destroyed Parsons College at Fail-field, lowa, a Presbyterian institution founded in 1875. The loss is $50,000, and the insurance half that amount. Information has been received in Washington of the eng.igi-im nt of Senator William P. Frye of Maim , president pro fem. of the Semite, to Miss Ellen May of Portland, Me. The Exchange Telegraph Company of London publishes a .dispatch from Simla, British India, saying that tin* plague mortality is increasing at the rate of a thousand weekly.