Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Cholera is raging in the city of Jerusalem. Rain helped the growing wbent in a large portion of Kansas. Andrew Carnegie has given 175,000 for a public library at Belfast. The Detroit City Council has appropriated 520,000 to fight smallpox. There is a widespread epidemic of smallpox in the island of Barbadoes. Captain F. P. Gillmore, U. 8. N., haa Icen retired with the rank of rear admiral. In western Texas and New Mexico hundreds of sheep perished in a cold storm. Kansas City Is to bare a mile race track for next spring. It will cost upwards of 1250,000. O. O. Christie and W. A. Rule are representing tire capital and they have all the plans made. An oil gusher, running 480 barrels of oil daily, was brought in near Barboursville, Ky. Tho statue of John Bright, which has just been placed in the British House of Commons, is tho gift of Andrew Carnegie. Emperor William of Germany Las promised to promote the iuterests of the Young Men’s Christian Association in his empire. The Japanese cabinet has adopted tho proposed scheme for naval expansion. It Involves sn annual expenditure of SB,2150,000 for ten years.