Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1884 — SPLINTERS. [ARTICLE]

SPLINTERS.

The sum of 5.50,000 has been given to Yale College (for a dormitory by Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago, \ « .The recent Poods destroyed flfty-flve bridges in the Ohio Valley, which will cost. 8210,000 to leplace. Mrs. Hannah Simon, of Newark, N. J., recently celebrated her 99th birthday by waltzing for ten minutes--The laborers on Ihe Capo Cod Ship Canal struck because. of dissatisfaction with the food furnished by the contractor. The Chief of Engineers at Washington reports the total expenditure by the Government on Chicago harbOr at 81,339.304. and on t he'Calumet ltlver at 8277,000, On ihe Mississippi proper there has been laid out $19,536,995. James Carey, the informer, who was slain by O'Donnell, sought before his “taking off” to cheat his creditors by a transfer of his property in the city of Dublin to his brother. The Irish Bankruptcy Court has jutt annulled the decree of transfer. Bedford, of Colorado, receives more mall matter thau any other member of Congress.