Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times telegraphs it is almost certain Russia will take no action to compel reforms by Turkey in Armenia. Captain F. S. Ingalls, United States deputy surveyor at Yuma, A. T., received instructions to resurvey the Yuma Indian reservation for the purpose of opening it to settlement. The Colorado River Irrigation Company’s great canal passes through this property. At a meeting of the university regents at San Francisco, the resignation of E. E. Barnard, astronomer nt Lick observatory, was rend and accepted. The resignation is not to take effect, however, until Oct. 1, as Prof. Barnard has under way some work which he wishes to complete before leaving. Prof. Barnard will then go to Chicago and take up his work in 1 the Yerkes observatory. The Htibinger-Carroll Cnsh Register Company of New Haven, Conn., the only one out of the combiue, is in the hands of a receiver.” Chili is to coin 10,000,000 silver dollars per annum and issue gold in SO, $lO and S2O pieces. Silver is not to be a legal tender In amounts above SSO, but the mint will exchange gold for silver. The San Francisco schooner Norma is reported lost forty miles north of Manzanillo. Friday’s statement of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $183,812.413; gold reserve, $99,503,567. - r The Gloucester schooner Robin Hood, Captain Boine, reports at Halifax, N. 8., that four meu Went astray from his vessel 100 miles off St. Peters, O. 8., in a dense fog, and nothing has since been seen of them. Their names are John McDonald, Samuel Lowry, Herbert Power and pa unknown. ‘'T’-T**! .•-r /-V W-—* • .lAra