Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

The epidemic of influenza, in a very mild form, is prevalent in Rome. • ■ Henry W. Brady, of Georgia, stood on Plymouth Rock and made a speech, Saturday. The wife of Governor-elect Campbell, of Ohio, who has been very sick, is com rvalesc King Humbert granted a private audience to Mr. Albert G. Porter, the United States Minister, Saturday. Plymouth Church (Beecher’s!, Brooklyn, during the year past has lost 729 members. The receipts were 144,082. The Hawaiian Government recently en gaged Dr. Lutz, an eminent authority on skin diseases, to make a study of leprosy, with the object of seeing if a cure can be effected. John J. Maloney, who is under indictment for murder, returned to Louisville from Los Angeles, Cal., Jtwo weeks ago, and is dying of consumption. In 1881, Maloney, in a drunken row, killed Thomas Holland, and made his escape. He has been all over the whole country since. Two colored men named Jones and Barrett were drowned in Horseshoe Lake, near Newport, Ark., on. Thursday. The men were fishing some distance out in the lake, and observing tho boat was leaking, pulled for the shore, hut before they could reach it the boat sunk and both men were drowned. . ~ I At Howard’s ship yards workmen are ! building an Anchor Line steamer, to cost >IOO,OOO, and three Mississipi Valley Trans- ! portation barges, costing about >50,000. : The Ohio Falls Car Works have contracts ■ for 2,300 cars aud nearly thirty coaches. | It will be seen that Jeffersonville is a great I center for furnishing means for transportation. Thursday night Fielding Colbert, of i Washington, brother of Sheriff Colbert,attended a meeting of a literary society near that city, accompanied by May Hedrick. After the close, as they passed from the building, Coioert was struck down with a ! bludgeon, and was kicked about the head 1 and face after he fell. He was picked up i in an unconscious condition and at last aci counts was still insensible. The assailant I was not recognized. Jealousy is supposed ’ to licivo prompted the attack