Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Spain liasinstiluted a cholera quarantine against i* ranee. Archbishop Kenbick, of St. Louis, is improved in health. Four cases of small-pox are reported in a Portland, Ore., hospital. Henry George is a candidate for the Manchester, Eng., consulship. All employes of the Santa Fe P.ailway system will unite in a federation. Kippey, who shot John W. Mackay, has a divorced wife living in Seattle, Wash. F. O. French, President of the Manhattan Trust Company, of New York, died at Tuxedo. Belgian forces in Congo Free State defeated a party of Arab slave traders, taking 500 prisoners. The Brdwery Workers’ Union will leave the Federation of Labor and affiliate with the Knights of Labor. Four oyster boats were wrecked in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, and seven oystermen were drowned. Oliver Burr Jennings, who died recently at Bridgeport, Conn., left an estate of $20,000,000 to his family. Samuel Price, a railroad employe, was so badly frozen near Pittsburg that his hands and feet were amputated. Emperor William has ordered an Inquiry into the causes of- the increase of crime among the young in Germany. John B. McFee, an Indianapolis attorney, who embezzled $12,000 and fled on Jan. 12, was arrested at Philadelphia. A bill is before the New Jersey Legislature providing for the introduction of the Faribault school system into the State. Ten persons belonging to a peasant wedding party at Ekaterinoslav, Russia, were drowned by a sledge breaking through the ice. New York asks an appropriation of Congress to be used in entertaining foreigners who will visit the city during the World’s Fair. A report to the Kentu ky Legislature shows that the Mason & Ford Company, convict-labor lessees, is in debt to the State $94,0u0. The Minnesota Shoe Company’s plant, at St. Paul, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $v:00,000, of which $28,000 falls on Kuhles & Stock, cigar dealers. President Gannon, of the Irish National League, repudiates the antiHome P.ule circular recently issued over the signatures of the officers of the League. The Cofroae & Company, operating the Beading roller mi is, is in the hands of a receiver. The company, a Philadelphia concern, has a capital of $500,000. Father Flaheily, a Mount Morris, N. Y., priest, is accused of embezzling SIOO,OOO from the estate of Dr. G. A. Bartholick, of whose estate the priest wi»? executor. 1