Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — Brieflets. [ARTICLE]

Brieflets.

China has accepted the English offer of a 4y 2 per cent, loan of £1,200,000. Six murders in two months in Michigan have resulted in agitation for capital punishment. Capt. McKenzie, of the Cleveland fire department, has fallen heir to one-fifth of a $533,000 fortune. Chicago and New York Congressmen will co-operate to secure appropriations for lew postoffice buildings. The first rain for four months fell in Arkansas, putting out the forest fires which had done great damage. Four men who robbed the postoffice at Ticonderoga, N. Y. were captured by a sheriff’s posse after a desperate light. Rev. Dr. Henry M. Storrs, who defended Prof. Briggs before the Presbyterian general assembly, died at Orange, N. J. William Brandt, a blacksmith at Freelandsville, Ind., committed suicide by hanging on account of financial troubles. Avalanches of snow, ice and earth, and not an eruption, were what changed the appearance of Mt. Ranier in Washington. Judge McMaster set aside the allowances made by Receiver Failey and his attorneys in the Iron Hall case at Indianapolis. Gov. Waite is continuing his war on Denver gamblers. He charges that the clergy are in league with the worst elements.

The proclamation of amnesty issued by the Czar includes the Lutheran clergymen who were arrested in the Baltic provinces. Fire which started from unknown causes did $15,000 damage to the boxing department of the Cudahy Packing Company at South Omaha. Judge McConnell of Fargo refused to annul the marriage of Aaron Hirschfield to Dell Hogan, and declared his witnesses to be unworthy of belief. Robert G. Ingersoll, said to be a nephew of the great New York lawyer, is under arrest at Minneapolis, charged with having stolen law books. The Anderson (Ind.) paper mills were sold at receiver's sale to Crawford Fairbanks, president of the American Strawboard syndicate, for $83,000. Many roads are suffering from a car famine owing to increased local business, while others are sending “empties” East to accommodate west-bound traffic. Missouri River packers are stirred up over the advance in rates on live hogs and packing-house products and may retaliate by shipping via gulf ports. A negro killed A. B. Leigh, a farmer, near Newman, Ga., and had a revolver drawn to shoot Mrs. Leigh, but Lilia, a daughter, seized her father’s shotgun and drove the man from the. house. Rabbi Wise, known by Hebrews all over the country, will resign the presidency of the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati. He founded the college and has served as president, wthout pay, for nineteen years. Advices from “Bob” Kneebs, the famous American horseman who was arrested in Germany on a charge of “ringing” horses on German race tracks, show that he has not yet been released from custody, as reported. Cincinnati ministers are fighting Sunday theatres. Two of the ministers went to Havlin’s Theatre and stayed long enough to qualify themselves as witnesses. The police refused to arrest the actors until the performance was concluded. Recent observations at Mount Lowe observatory indicate that the Edward Swift comet discovered by the son of Prof. Swift at that observatory on Tuesday evening, November 20, may turn out to be the famous lost comet discovered by Devico at Rome November 22, 1844, just half a century ago. The society women of San Francisco have adopted a novel plan to raise money for a children’s hospital. Proprietor Hearst of the San Francisco Examiner will turn over the whole plant to them, and they will get out the Christmas edition of the paper, the entire proceeds of the day’s business to go to the hospital fund. The weekly statement of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows the following changes as compared with the previous account: Cash in hand, decrease 1,300,000 marks; treasury notes, decrease 400 r 000 marks; other, securities, decrease 2,680,000 marks: notes in circulation, increase 28,210,000 marks. George Meredith, the English novelist, was paid for his last novel sA the rate of SSO per 1,000 words. > ... ■- ■' ;