People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

XX W. Sheudy, a well known attorney of Rockford, 111., and Justice of the Peace, attempted suicide by swallow* ing a dose of laudanum. He will recover. The celebration of the completion of a quarter of century of King Oscar’s reign will be signalized by a Scandinavian art and Industrial exhibition at Stockholm during the next summer. Madrid papers claim that the United States desires to ruin Spain’s colonial power. The porte has decided to decline payment of all claims for Indemnity for massacres except those advanced by Americans. . * Emperor William addressed the officers at the military school at Hanover and cautioned the soldiers to act In a more friendly manner toward civilians. It is said that Emperor William to considering the advisability of recalVirtfe all the officers whom he loaned to the Chinese government for the purpose of Instructing the Mongolian warriors in the arts of civilized warfare. Oscar Cespedee, an American citizen, has been denied a civil trial at M&tanzas. A. J. Boyce, proprietor of the Boyce machine shop and enameling works at East Liverpool, 0.. has assigned. Assets are estimated at (40,000 and liabilities at (20,000. The firm of Calloway, Walker St Miller, dealers in general merchandise at Boeoobd, Wia.. has made an assignment William H. Pittman, cashier of the State bank Is assignee.. Klinefelter & Freeman, machinery dealers of Sibley, la., have assigned to Q. W. Lister for the benefit of creditors. The assets scheduled over (16,000; liabilities over (11.000. J. S. ffye, hardware and Implement dealer at Prhngfhar, la., has failed. An Italian named Coraetto has Invented an apparatus fhich enabled him to remain under water eighteen houra Owlngto an accident to the apparatus, however; he oarne near being asphyxiated.