Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Frank Wade, palmist and astrologer, han been arrested at Toledo, Ohio, charged with swindling. Col. Sir Vivian Doering Majendie, C, 8., her majesty's chief inspector of explosives since 1881, died in London. Thomas Compton, a farmer of Jefferson County, Tenn., became suddenly insane over war talk and killed himself by shooting. A cablegram from London says that Mr. Gladstone may not survive longer than sixty days. That is the opinion of his physicians after having carefully diagnosed his condition. A tremendous tire broke out in the Clydeside district of Glasgow, Scotland. Several large buildings were involved, including the magnificent Homan Catholic Cathedral of St. Andrew's. The damage amounts to £150.000 ($750,000). The report that the war with Spain will cause a postponement of the trans-Mis-•iasippi exposition at Omaha is utterly without foundation. The work vigorously proceeds and everything will be in readiness for the ojaming day, June 1. W. B. Mcßride, representing a Chicago brewing company, has obtained an option on a large plot of ground in Nashville, Tenn., on which he says his company proposes to erect one of the largest breweries In tiie country. Mr. Mcßride says the scheme embraces in addition to the brewery an eight-story steel-constructed hotel and forty saloons located in different parts of the city. William It. Gratz of New York has Offered a prize of SIOO to the man who fast plants the Stars and Stripes on Cu!ban soil. It is announced on credible authority I from Santiago de Chili that Chili and Bolivia hare arranged satisfactorily the questions pending between them, and that the protocol will be signed in a few days. ■ At Tacoma. Wash., President Cole of f- the Shingle Manufacturers' Association fcas ordered 200 shingle mills, now cut- < ting 15,000,000 shingles daily, to be closed until the permanent effect of the war in the shingle business can be ascertained. I