Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

As a result of a 15-eent drop in the price of oiL the last few days “wild catting” has been stopped and the oil boom is considered ended. About 20,000 members of the Brotherhood of Tailors are on strike in the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Newark. There has been no disorder in connection With the strike. Cherokee Bill got his hands on another revolver and used it in an attempt to liberate prisoners confined in murderer's row of the United States jail at Fort Smith, Ark. His attempt resulted in the death of Larry Keating, the oldest guard of the force. The steamer tender Ella Rohlffs arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Alaska with news of the loss of the ship Raphel at Tanglefoot Bay. The ship and cargo are a total loss, but the crew was saved. The Raphel sailed from San Francisco April 24. The administrators of the estate of Mrs. Theresa Fair have made affidavits that the personal property of the estate in California is worth only $300,000. The assessor has included railroad bonds and assessed the estate at $1,900,000. The executors are John W. Mackey and Richard V. Dey. | . Mnrion Miller, a pioneer rancher residing at Azusa, Cal., fell asleep while his 5-year-old granddaughter set her clothes on fire. When the mother returned she found her child dying by the side of the Bleeping grandfather. Miller was blamed with the child's condition and shot himself through the head. L. M. Cox, who dropped dead of heart disease in Chicago Wednesday, was to have been married in a short time to Miss Surah Atkins, of Muncie, Ind. Four years ago Miss Atkins prepared for her marriage to a prominent citizen of Pomeroy, Ohio. Two days before the wedding he died suddenly of heart trouble. At New York Referee Jacobs, in his zeport in the suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Ollie Corbett against her husband, James J. Corbett, the pugilist, finds Mrs. Corbett entitled tola divorce, and recommends that the agreement entered into by her and heFhusband at the time of their separation, by which he agreed to pay her SIOO a week for life, be continued. Sam Woolner Jr., the Peoria distiller, (charges that members of the Illinois Legislature tried to extort a $3,000 bribe from Peoria and Pekin distillers. The estate of the late Paul Schultz, the defaulting land agent of the Northern Pacific, has been sued for S7OO for wines alleged to have been stolen from the Union Club of Tacoma. Elder Hiram Munger, a leading Second Adventist, prophesies that the end of the world will come In 1807. WiMiam C. Whitney says he would not turn his hand over to secure a nomination •nd election to the presidency.