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

NEWS NUGGETS.

An additon covering .'{.">,ooo square feet will be built to the transportation building at the Cotton States and International Exposition. Obituary—At Burgos, Spain, Senor Manuel ttinz Zorilla, the noted republican leader, s(s.—At Jeffersonville, Ind., John McCullough, 70. —At Elkhart, Ind., Mrs. Mary A. Brady, 86; Mrs. F. Truman, 77. —At Burlington, lowa, Selig W. Greeubaunt.—At Huntington, Ind., Samuel Moore, 77; David Itearn, 69: The London Board of Trade after examining thoroughly all the reports regarding the sinking of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe on the morning of Jan. 31, which resulted in the loss of about 870 lives, has ruled that the mate of the Crathie, the British steamer which ran Into and sunk the German steamship, was responsible for the disaster. Consequently the mate’s certificate was suspended. M, Svederup, the leader of the Norwegian Moderates, who was asked by King Oscar to form a new cabinet, has declined the proposition. At New Orleans, a boiler burst in the Union cotton press. A number of men were injured, among them being a sou of one of the owners of the press. Official dispatches received at Berlin deny the existence of a Franco-Russian written alliance. Dr, Todd, of Abbeville, 8. C. f a brother-in-law of President Abraham Lincoln, now 79 years of age, hn* gone ,blind. , .