Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — SHORT NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Forty conductors on tho Metropolitan <fe Multanomah electric street car lines at Portland, Ore., were arrested Friday for “knocking down." The companies lost on an average 84,600 per month. Mrs. Robert Morrell, an aged woman living ten miles north of Hillsboro,ilhv was stung. Thursday, on the back of tbe neck by a bee, and died from tho effects in thirty minutes. &be had been in the best of health previous to the sting. An enthusiastic Republican meeting was held, Friday, among the (Indians on the Slsserton reservation, in South Dakota, and a Republican club, composed entirely of Indians, was organized, with a charter membership of soventy-flve. Speeches were made by both whites. \ - ‘‘l can’t sing,” said the young lady when invited to warblejbut she o»n----plied upQii being further presAttl When sh&bad finished, Pogg thanked her, and added behind his teeth, “I’ll never doubt anybody’s word as* o -” K —a The Probable Cause. —Mr. Spinks (looking up from his paper) —I wonder if pie makers ever eat their own pies. Mrs. Spinks—l don’t know. Why? Mr. Spinks—The paper says the Chicago pie makers are feeling very ugly.*—New York Weekly.