Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Justin McCarthy has arranged to write another volume, bringing his “History of Our Own Times” down to date. Rudyard Kipling’s greatest ambition is said to be to serve as a war correspondent. The next big war will take him into the field. Reginald de Koven, who has set to music a number of Eugene Field’s poems, is writing new music for some of the poet’s later lullabies. The new Shah of Persia is anxious to open the country to international commerce, and favors the introduction of electricity and steam. A receiver has been appointed for the B. L. Price Clothing Manufacturing Company of New York. The liabilities are $125,000 and actual assets $25,000. The Dowager Czarina with her c’.Lldren, w-ho has been visiting her parents, the King and Queen of Denmark, has started for Libau on board’ the imperial yacht Polar Star. The State Department has received official -information from Consul General Lee at Havana that Samuel T. Toion, who was taken into custody by the Spanish authorities in Cuba Sept. 4, had been roleaaed.