Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mrs. D, F. Holman, of Aurora, Ind., wife of the ex-Congressman, was stricken with paralysis and is not expected to live. The full amount of the shortage of City Treasurer Bolin, of Omaha, Neb., though not yet known, will, it is thought, exceed $25,000.

Lightning struck the Orphans’ Home building at Galveston, Tex., killing Fred Seifert, a young man employed on the building. Mr. Gladstone says the statements regarding his attitude toward the Rosebery cabinet and the Welsh disestablishment bill are untrue and declares that the Government had canceled his pair without his request.

An unusual summer congestion in coal can be seen now in the harbor of Pittsburg. While markets in all directiohs south and west are short of supplies and in many cases almost denuded, no less than 600,000 tons of coal are tied up waiting for a rise in the river.

According to the Hungarian crop report, cereals have suffered from the rust. It is estimated that the yield of wheat will amount to 37,000,000 meter centner. The yield of rye is estimated at 9,000,000, barley at 11,000,000 and oats at 8,000,000 meter centner. Rape seed is being harvested; the yield Is light. The boiler of one of the steam launches of the United States cruiser Columbia exploded at the Kiel parade Friday. The cylinder head was blown off and carried overboard with it the smokestack and other portions of the launch. Four persons were injured by the explosion and were taken to the naval hospital. Robert Quinn was killed rind two others badly hurt by an accident to an elevator in the Swift packing house at Omaha, Neb.

Obituary: At Creston, lowa, William Groesbeck.—At Woodstock, Vt., J. Sinead Purple, fbrmerly of Chicago.—At Louisville, 111., John C. Etchison.—At Bruceville, Ind., William D. Piety, 88. John Lincoln, a near relative of the martyred President, died in the Reading, Pa., poor house. Physicians report Gov. Atkinson, of Georgin, is holding his own, and are hopeful of his recovery. Alonzo Whitman, ex-millionaire and exState Senator from Duluth, Minn., has been convicted of forgery at San Francisco. • Ex-Police Superintendent Byrnes, of New Yiufc, has declined an offer to enter the service of a foreign government at a large salary.