Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

It 18 understood that the deal for tin Consolidation of the plug tobacco sac tones in the United States bus fuller through. A tornado in the Red River valley Texas, killed two persons, injured eleven dearly destroyed the town of Bhvenuii and damaged property to the extent of SIOO,000. At Lorain, Ohio, during a celebration ol the supposed naval victory, a hose cart it a procession ran over two men. I’etei Snyder was killed and an unknown mar fatally injured. The caw of James H. SonthalK nt St Paul, Minn., charged with floating SSOO, 000 worth of fraudulent time checks, hat been transferred from the United State* to the Minnesota court. About 3,000 persons took part in a riot which lasted two hours at Bliowunipoor ninety-nine miles east of Dynagphoor. British India. Many of the rioters won Injured, and they were finaHy dispersed by the police. Hugh B. Jones of the firm of Harris & Jones, lumber deniers in San Francisco Cal., filed his petition in insolvency. H( owes $89,841.74. His assets consist ol personal property valued at $42,913.28 •nd real estate valued at $6,(125. At public sale at Concordia, Kan., Special Master Hiram P. Dillon sold tlx Central branch road, running frem Wat errille west to its western limits, Inclnd Ing the branch to Washington and th« Troaser branch, from* Concordia north tc the Nebraska line. There was but out Ibid, that of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr„ and Oliver Ames of Boston, to whom the road .was knocked down for $1,017,500. The residence of Senator Mason ol JHinois, at 1432 CMuipitt street, Washing ton, was entered by burglars and jew wiry to the value of nearly $4,000 was stolen. The Vuitcd States Supreme Court has decided convicthxu* under the oleomargarine laws of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire to be invalid, thus holding the laws unconstitutional. Reports from a dosc« or more comities 1n north Texas, the wheat l>elt of the State, are that fuljy one-half the crop was destroyed by a recent tornado and the Severe rains mid winds tint followed. , Other grain suffered correspondingly.