Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Five miles of nets, said to belong to E. R. Ed son, of Cleveland, were seized by the Canadian Government cruiser near Rondeau, Out. Fire broke out at Methuen, in Clous’ cotton mill, and in spite of the combined efforts of the departments of both Methuen and Lawrence, from where aid had been sent, the building \V»s burned to tho ground. The loss will be heavy. A report from Washington is to the effect that the income tax law is pronounced unconstitutional. Justice Jackson, it is said, upheld the constitutionality of tho the lrtw ns a whole, but exempted rents and bonds. This apparently secured the standing of the law; but one of the other justices changed front, giving a majority against it. In Lawrence County, Ala., while a crowd of mountaineers was sitting around reached the cover of n large oak when lightning struck the treo and shattered it, killing the three men. Henry Bier, n lending financier, was convicted of perjury at New Orleans in u municipal Investigation. The rise in the price of crackers is credited by the trust officers at St. Louis as in sympathy with the rise iu flour.

Mike King was hanged at Helen Tenn., for the murder of W. A. Beck. The barkentine Josephine, Captain McLean, which sailed from Itio Janeiro April 14 with a $200,000 cargo of coffee for Baltimore, went ashore on Little I*l--and shore, eighteen miles south of Cape Henry. The crew was rescued.