Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The 4-year-old udge C. B. Stuart was struck by a baseball and instantly killed at South McAllester, I. T. Allen Martin, a farmer of Hampton, Ark., was..assassinated by Willie Drew Bunn, a negro, who shot him from ambush. ' Twenty- farmers of Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, were arrested at Hennessy for whiteeapping John Flynn, an uncle of Delegate Dennis Flynn, of Oklahoma. Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster has arrived in Washington from China, where he took a conspicuous part in the diplomatic branch of the China-Japan conflict. Dr. A. McLean. LL. D.. corresponding secretary of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Christian Church, leaves Cincinnati for a visit to the mission stations of that church in Japan, China, India, Turkey, Scandinavia, and England. A man about 40 years old, who says he is a son of William Dennison, postmaster at Pittsburg, and a brother of W- B. Dennison, T'nited States consul at Nanaimo, B. C., attempted to commit suicide at the Central Hotel in Rosebury, Oregon. It is reported that the Standard Oil Company will try the experiment of towing oil barges from the Atlantic ports to Europe, something which has never before been tried, and which, if successful, will have a marked effect on the foreign oil trade and towing business. The national convention of deaf mute instructors at Flint, Mich., closed with a business session. A resolution was unanimously adopted providing for the appointment of a Committee to formulate a plan for the organization of a.protective association among the deaf and dumb workers of the country. A number of men went down the river at Ballington, Texas,! to a high bluff of rode for the purpose of blasting out some bees and obtaining the honey. After the blast a large mass of rock, weighing about ten tons, crashed down upon a portiort'of the crowd, instantly killing Marston Colton and Robert Dunlap. Miss Katie Connell, of Pittsburg, found

a revolver iu the pocket of her young brother, and for safety she took it away from him. She went out on the porch, intending to fire off the cartridges in the chamber of the revolver. The first shot she fired struck Mrs. Catherine Kelly, a neighbor, and killed her instantly. President Cleveland has laid down explicit rules for the guidance of the army in dealing With mobs through the medium of the new army regulations which will soon be issued by the WJar Department. The army has heretofore laeen without explicit orders in that respect. According to these rules, sharpshooters' must pick out men who assail the troops w ith! stones, etc. j Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is said to be the president of a secret organization to boom free silver. It is called the Order of. the Supreme Temple, Silver Knights of America, and the headquarters are at Denver, Francis Clark, who succeeded the late John Brown as Queen Victoria’s personal attendant, is dead. Four lives were lost and much property damaged by a cyclone in Putnam and Morgan counties, Georgia. Canton, ICan., was struck by a tornado and every house in the town is reported to have been damaged.

The family of James Gaussian, while driving near Pittsburg, were thrown down a precipice. The girl was killed and the mother will die. ■ ; Addresses before, the world’s student convention at Northfield, Mass., were made by Professor -W. W. White, of Chicago; Rev. Dr. Patton, of Princeton; and Rev. Dr. Pierson, Mrs. Mabel Roellofs was arrested at Philadelphia, charged with passing bogus checks on a Colorado bank; also with obtaining SI,OOO in a similar manner from a Philadelphia lawyer. The American Tobacco Company, of New York, with a capital of $435,000, has .finally acquired control of the cigarette business of Canada by the purchase of the house of D. D. Ritchie & Co. and the American Cigarette Company. Marshall E. Price, who assaulted and then murdered Sallie Dean at Denton, Md„ iii March last, was taken from the jail in that place*. Tuesday night and hanged to a tree. Price was to have been hanged on Friday, but Governor Brown granted him n reprieve. . :— ; The iron mills of the Moorehead-Mc-Lean Company, in Pittsburg,- have been .sold by the sheriff. The plant is worth over $1,000,000, but went for sll,ooo', just enough to cover the taxes due on the property and the sheriff's costs. By this transaction the plant of one of the oldest iron firms goes out of its possession for good. The purchaser is the New York Life Insurance Company, holder of the mortgage on which the sale was made. The mortgage-was for $350,000, but the interest acumulated ran the claim up to $370,000. This leaves the extension creditors without security and nothing to fall back on.