Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

New York Naval Veterans are plnuning for a naval parade on next Memorial day. "Six lives Were tost'by ra..cloudburst in the mountains above Tuluapautla, Mexico: • ————^ —— f — • Chung Woy tvas mysteriously shot at San Francisco, and a highbinders’ war is feared. " Fire caused a loss of $23,000 to the building of the Augusta, Ga., steam laundry. The body found dead in a field near Toledo is supposed to bo that of Amirovich Lassilla from Latavia, a Russian province in Finland. He is supposed to have been a wealthy tourist. The Hubbard House and other buildings in the business section of Clayton, N. Y., were burned; loss about $75,000. There were forty guests in the Hubbard House, all of whom escaped. It was developed in court at Cincinnati that W. D. Bender, who is in a sanitarium, had some weeks ago actually burned up $45,000 in cash and $13,250 in United States bonds. Some weeks ago Bender became ill and is now partially insane. Recent desertions from Fort Logan, at Denver, have been traced to the presence of a recruiting agent from Cuba. During the past month it is reported that 200 men have been forwarded from Denver, and the preference has been given to those with military education tutd a knowledge of tactics.

Railway men now declare they know why Calvin S. Brice bought the Pittsburg, Akron and Western Itoad a short time ago. They claim to know with certainty that he is forming a great railroad system, which will be the shortest route between Chicago and New York and have ramifications to many of the great business centers. The line will be between the Vanderbilt system on the north and the Pennsylvania on the south, and will cross the Erie in several places. Six magnificent steam ynehts, such ns could be owned only by the lucky possessors of many millions of dollars, will be built by the n&vy during the current fiscnl year, and although they are to be finer than similnr vessels of their class, they promise to be all around the most useful ships belonging to the United States Government. By act of Congress, approved M a roll 2, 1895, provision was mndo for the construction of six light-draft, eomI<osite gunboats, the individual coustructive limit of cost being $230,000, exclusive of the cost of armament. Fears are entertained nt Little Rock; Ark., that an overflow will result from the present unprecedented rise in the Arkansas River.

J. K. Hudson, editor of tbe Topeka Capitol, was arrested a second time charged with criminally libeling Judge Foster, of the United States District Court. A company was incorporated at La Porte, Ind., to manufacture papier maehe bicycle rims. The New York f'ity directory for this year contains 399,128 names, air Increase over last year of 11,717. Willfsm G. Meyers, of Philadelphia, has been elected Grand Exalter Ruler of the Grand Lodge of Elks at Atlantic City, N. J. Dr. Edward Jones, 6# the Eastern Kentucky Insane Asylum staff, was found dead beneath his window. It is thought he leaped out.