Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Briefiets. [ARTICLE]

Briefiets.

President-elect Cleveland has secured the services of a detective, who will act as a body-guard. Postmaster N. T. Anderson, ol New London, Conn., is missing. He is short $4,000 in his accounts. Secretary Foster will visit New York and confer~wlth bankers on the financial condition of the country. THEEbbitt House will be the home ol Vice President-elect Stevenson while in WashingiSh prior to the inauguration. Many distinguished people attended the services at Haverhill, Mass., in memory of the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. E. A. Peck has resigned the position of General Superintendent of the “Big Four” Eailway, and the office has been abolished. James S. Clarkson is at the head of a syndicate which has purchased the City of Mexico street railway service for $7,000,000. The United Slates Consul at Hamburg will not issue clean bills of health to steamers clearing from Hamburg for the United States. William Gbun, in jail at Canton, Ohio, for larceny, hanged himself after having been prayed with for an hour by W. C. T. U. members. The revolutionary sentiment in Bio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is subsiding. It is now known that the Federal Government intends to interfere. Thomas Gaston, Captain of the Police, shot and killed W. C. Strickland at Jackson, Tenn. Strickland charged Gaston publicly with corrupt official acts. George Babcock Hazard, of Newport, B. 1., who is accredited with much wealth, has been in jail one week because he neglected to pay damages recently assessed upon him by the court in a case of trespass. v He is upward of 70Years of age, and ie the donor of the Hasard Memorial School.