Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Won Kee, a Chinaman, was mysteriously murdered in Montreal, Quo, The sloop Restless of Santa Barbara is reported lost off Santa Cruz Island with sixteen persons on board. At Bruex, Bohemia, a remarkable sinking of the earth caused the collapse of eighteen houses and has done'damage to the amount of a million and a half crowns. At Cleveland 40ft men employed at the Lake Shore foundry went on strike Monday. They demand a restoration of the wages paid previous to a reduction, which took place about two years ago. Two hundred and fifty of the men are laborers, while the remaining 150 are cupola men. A treaty has been concluded between Greece and Russia by which a fixed import duty has been determined upon for Russian cereals, and by which Russia is given the monopoly of the kerosene trade in Greece. It is expected that this will have the effect of driving American petroleum from the Greek market. It has been learned that Frank L. Hart, a notorious bunko-steerer. who broke jail at Seattle, Wash., last March with the desperado Tom Blanck, made his escape by being sent in a box to Tasco, on the Northern Pacific. When the box was delivered the hour was midnight and escape from the lonely freight house was easy. Nine skeletons have been found in one of the prehistoric mounds near Frankfort, Ohio. The bones were thof* of short, heavy, muscular men. The skulls are thick and rather round and the facial angle is low. Several skulls give evidence of artificial flattening of the base during infancy. No skeletons found in Ohio present a more inferior tribe physic^y. At Los Angeles, Cal., John G. Luck entered his wife’s room at the Westminster Hotel and finding her in bed cut her throat. Her screams aroused other boarders and Luck jumped to the ground from a window in the second story, severing his own wind pipe before he leaped. Both are still alive. Luck is said to be the son of a wealthy family in Nashville, Tenn. 7 Peter Belleque, an old fisherman living at Woods, Ore., on the Nencesta Itiver, has received notice that he has fallen heir, with three other relatives, to the snug sum of $200,000 in Canada. Belleque is about GO years old, and for yaafft has lived alone in the mountains. He lost track of all his relatives and never communicated with any of them. Since the news of his good luck has been actually confirmed he has had numerons offers of marriage. *. Ds. P. J. .Gibbons, of Rochester, N. Y., who was present at the electrocution of the negro, Johnson, at Auburn, declares that* the condemned mAn was partly re-sust-itated after being taken from the chair, when the warden prevented further attempts to restore consciousness. Shortly after an autopsy was performed on the body. The new addition of the American tinplate factory at Elwood, Ind., was opened, 260 men being employed. AIL labor and industrial organizations of Texas have been invited to meet in Joint sension at Lampasas Auk. 20.