Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Henry .Gillette, of Geijevn, Ohio, took morphine and is dead. In the French parliamentary elections the moderate republicans gained eight Beats. At Seneca, N. Y., Mrs. Fred Hebei and two children were suffocated by a lire that occurred at their home. Count Castellane, who married Anna Gonld, was a successful candidate in the parliamentary elections at Paris. At Watertown, X. Y., ll.' X. Martin and his wife were killed in their home by breathing coal gas. Five other people narrowly escaped. In Bell County, Kentucky, John Carroll, ngisl 111, son of the Rev. John Carroll, killed his playmate, Robert Nelson, aged 15, with a stone. \ Secretsr.v C. W. Mock, of the Tacoma School Board, while riding a bicycle, was run into by tin unknown woman. Mr. Mock died of his injuries. Pine City, Minn., about seventy miles from St. Paul, was threatened with destruction by tire. Half the business portion of the town was destroyed, A big plug tobacco combine has been perfected in New York. The new company has a capital of .$00,000,000, and absorbs the business of Lorillard & Co. and P, J. Sorg A: Co. The-Supreme Court of Kansas has decided that if a wife, even if not properly a wife, aids her husbjmd to acquire property she is entitled to an equal division of such property on sciwration. The Queen of Belgium, who is a daughter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria, while driving in the vicinity of the royal palace at Laoken, was upset into the lake.' Her majesty was not injured. The Kims Hotel at Excelsior Springs, Mo., was destroyed by tire. The guests, numbering over 100, were asleep when the alarm was given, although none was injured. The flumes started in the engine room and were soon beyond control. The hotel was built in 1 SKI) and cost $200,000. It was insured for $40,000. It was the property of Col. Henry Etteuson, of Leaven worth, Kan. The railroad between Astoria and Portland, Ore., is completed. Several construction trains are at work ballasting and getting the roadbed in shape for'the formal opening of the line, which will lx* with a grand excursion train. After that two regular trains each way will be ruu between the metropolis of Oregon and its only seaport. ' Judge Hagner at Washington, D. C. t signed a decree granting Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist, a divorce from Dr. Swan M. Burnett, a well-known oculist of that city. She la permitted to resume ber maiden name of Hodgson. - • • •