Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

New South Wales- authorities have prohibited plunge baths on account of drouth. Massachusetts Democratic State convention repudiated Kansas City platform and nominated William A. . Gaston for Governor. The coal bunkers and briquette factory of the Tesla company at Stockton, Cal., have been destroyed by tire, entailing a loss of about S2OO,<XM). Mme. Calve has announced that she is to marry. She has written to her friends that the man of her choice is the handsome painter and author, Henri Cain. After an exi»enditure of $21,000,000 and the sacrifice of twenty-four lives the rapid transit subway under construction in New York is three-fifths completed. Edgar H. Neff pleaded guilty at Denver to the embezzlement of $8,520 from the Union Pacific Railway Company ami was sentenced to serve two to live years in prison.

Note has been sent to the powers by Secretary Hay calling on them to stop the persecution of Jews in Roumania and demanding the enforcement of the Berlin treaty. Edwin E. Ives, trainmaster of the middle division of the Santa Fe Railway system, was killed at Emporia, Kan., by being run over by a switch engine, and E. Austin, trainmaster of the eastern division, was hurt. Receivers are appointed for the American Cycle Manufacturing Company caused by embarrassments arising from the pecuniary difficulties of the bicycle trust. Demands of all creditors will be met, it is •aid. During a fight at Catlettsburg, Ky., Fred Marcum of Wayne County; West Virginia, struck John Davis with his fist, killing him almost instantly. Davis lived at Hampton City, Ky. Marcum is in custody. William King, n farm hand under arrest at St. Thomas, Ont., has confessed to having murdered 15-year-old Janies Freeman, an adopted son of a fanner, because he was jealous of the boy and wanted to take the boy’s place in the family. It is now learned that the British steamer Nithsdale, news of the grounding of which on a reef south of Cardlva Island, in the Indian ocean, Sept. 8. was received recently, has foundered. I’art of her crew has been brought to Colombo. The captain and thirteen men are believed to have been drowned.