Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Frank W. Ryan, of St. Louis, Mo., was killed by a Missouri Pacific train at Leavenworth, Kas. The Arctic expedition under Walter Welman, the explorer, sailed from Tnunboc, Norway. The Bellingham Bay Improvement Company mill burned at f New Whatcom, Wash. Loss estimated at $400,000. Comptroller Coler announced that Mrs. Hetty Green had offered to Ipaa the city of New York $1,000,000 at 2 per cent. Dr. Louis Jacob and his son Daniel, 18 years old, both dentists of St. Louis, were drowned at Creve Couer Lake by the overturning of their boat. Two other men ■who were rescued had a narrow escape from death. A heavy rain and bail storm that swept over Walsh County, N. D., devastated the country for a distance of forty miles and from one to ten miles in width. Crops on 50,000 acres were destroyed, the total loss being estimated at from $150,000 to $200,€OO. George Harsch, an iron worker of Leechburg, Pa., died suddenly the other evening while discussing his approaching marriage with Miss Lizzie Ramsey of Homestead, to whom he was engaged, at the home of a relative in Milvale. The two were talking when Harsch fell from the chair on which he was sitting to the floor. His fiancee tried to raise hiiu, but he became unconscious, and in a few minutes he died in her arms. Doctors said heart disease killed him. After the successive failures of RHxfl, Sarrien and Peytral to form a cabinet to succeed the retiring ministry of Mellne, at Paris, it is announced that Henri Brisson lias formed a cabinet, with tbe following distribution of portfolios: President of Henri Brisson; Minister of Finance, Paul Peytral; Minister of Education, Leon Bourgeoise; Minister of Justice, Ferdinand Sarrien; Minister of War, Godefroy Cavaignac; Minister of Marine, Edouard Simon Lockroy; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Theophile Delcasse; Minister of the Colonies, Georges Trouillet; Minister of Commerce, Emile Maruejouls; Minister of Agriculture, Albert Viger. Burglars were discovered ransacking several business places in Cridersville, Ohio. The citizens organized a posse aHd opened fire. Thirty shots were exchanged and the thieves, retreated. They left a trail of blood nnd one of them, supjxxed to be wounded, left a pair of shoes at the roadside. They were followed to Lima, Ohio, in general merchandise and leaf tobacco, lost their large store and tobacco warehouse, containing 15Q hogsheads of lMf tobacco, by loss was |J»,-