Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Three murderers were hanged at San Quentin, Cal., Thursday. Five men were to have been executed, but Gov. Budd granted respites in the cases of two. Two elevators, with 150,000 bushels of malt and barley, belonging to the Wisconsin Malt and Grain Company, at Appleton, were burned. Loss, $150,000. The Canadian steamer Jack, which sank the steel steamer Norman on Lake Huren, got away from Alpena, Mich., at noon Friday, just one hour ahead of a libel for SIOO,OOO in a suit instituted by the owners of the Norman. At Lexington, Ky., George Green, colored, shot and killed his wife and her stepfather, Henderson Weakes, and then attempted suicide. Green’s.wife had left him, going to the home of her mother. The woman was killed While asleep and her stepfather upon going into the'room when attracted by the pistol shots. Green is still alive, but has two large holes in his head. After three weeks of the highest prices on record during recent years, dressed meats have taken a tumble at Cleveland. Friday the best native beef sold at $8.25 to $8.50 per hundredweight, a drop of from 50 to 75 cents. Texas beef also went down 50 cents per hundredweight, while dressed sheep are $1 lower. Dressed lambs are 50 cents below the selling price Thursday. Rudolph Schnaubelt, the Chicago bpmb thrower, iB reported to have been fatally wounded in a fracas at Pinulajo Villu, Honduras. The manufacturers of iron and brass bedsteads who have been meeting at the Victoria Hotel, Chicago, disbanded. No organization was effected, as was at first expected. A portion of the Doe Run lead mino at Flat River, Mo., caved in, killing three men. Forest fires, parted by railrbad men burning old ties, have destroyed 300 acres of timber near Brazil, Ind. Gen. Eloy Alfaro has been proclaimed supremo chief of the revolution in t Ecuador. He is preparing to leave Nicaragua for Guayaquil. Joseph Sampson web. expelled from membership in the City Council at Sioux Falls, S. D., for converting $7lO from the city to his own use.