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

Interesting News Items.

A second natural gas well has been drilled at Eureka, Kan. Gas was struck at a depth of 890 feet. The steamer Brunswick arrived at San Francisco recently with 22,243 seal skins, valued at $300,000, on board. Th* torpedo boat destroyer Barry, which had her official standardizing trial off Solomon’s Island, Mass., made 28.12 knots. Fire damaged to th* extent of SIOO,000 the plant of the Alice Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company near Butte, Mont Anzella trotted two slow heats in th* Charter Oak SIO,OOO event at Hartford, Conn., and then went in and won in three straight heata. Fire in the business section of Livingston, Texas, destroyed twenty buildings, causing a loss of $135,000 with only 80 per cent of insurance. A threatened strike of the butchers employed in the Chicago packing houses was averted by the interested parties reaching a tentative agreement. As a result of a disagreement over alleged mistreatment of his mother, Tom Brownlee, aged 17, shot and killed his stepfather, Justice of the Peace Tucker, at Merkle, Texas. The Associated Press has received a letter from Gen. Anderson in which he denied the published reports that while in Manila h* spoke disrespectfully of Admiral Dewey, or that he ever belittled the admiral’s victory on Manila bay.