Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1897 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

John Jacob Astor’s $5,000,000 hotel, which is in course of erection next to the Waldorf in New York, will be called the Astoria. Crossman Bros., seedsmen at Rochester, N. Y., filed a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities are estimated at $50,000. At a circus near Brownsville, Tex., a section of the elevated seats collapsed, precipitating 300 persons to the ground. Six may die. Many were more or less bruised. The election of the Manitoba Legislature, held in St. Boniface district, was carried by the Conservatives and separate school party, Lauzon, their candidate, being returned by 200 majority. The seat was formerly Liberal and is a gain in the Legislature f6r the separate school advocates. Ten Harvard students who had been out all night on a celebration at Boston, tackled Policeman William Linton and proceeded to use him as a punching bag. In the midst of the frolic three officers in civilian dress showed up and soon released Linton and then all four sailed into the Harvard crowd. When the dust had aettled four students were lying in th* street.