Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

John D. Rockefeller's large barn and hothouses in the Poenntico hills were burned, probably by incendiaries. The loss was $30,000. The Supreme Council of the Knights and Ladies of Honor at St. Louis. Mo., by a two-thirds majority vote, excluded from membership in the order electric linemen, workmen handling explosives, * miners, fishermen, aeronauts and bartenders. The wages of 50,000 employes in the union iron mills of the country for September and October have been raised 'J per cent, by representatives of the Merchants’ Bar Iron Association and the Amalgamated Association Iron and Steel Workers. W. It. Stebbins, a well-known capitalist, was arrested at Cheyenne, Wyo., and taken to Sun Dance by the sheriff of Crook County, charged with forgery. Stebbins is well.Js.nown throughout the West. At present he is a resident of Kansas City. An immense traffic in Mexican cattle is being built up under the present favorable conditions for their importation into this country. Twelve thousand head of stock cattle were purchased in the State of Conhuiln, Mexico, and brought into Texas, and the Dolores ranch, in Kinney County, was stocked with them. Arrangements are being made with English capitalists to purchase several hundred thousand head of Mexican cattle ahdAshing them to Texas, where they will be'fattened on cottonseed meal and then shipped alive England. It has been learned from an authoritative source that John Y. McKane,, the exchief of jiolice of Gravesend, is not likely to live long enough to serve out his sentence in Sing Sing (X. v Y.) prison. Indeed, it is declared, although efforts have been made to prevent the knowledge of his condition from being made public, that he is a very sick tuan and that it would be no surprise to those of Jiis friends who know of his condition to hear at any moment that he was prostrated in the prison liofpital. It is understood President Cleveland has practically determined to appoint W. L. May, of Omaha, Neb., commissioner of fish und fisheries, to succeed the late Marshall MacDonald. Mr. May bus boon fish commissioner for Nebraska for the last fifteen years. His appointment, if made, will he due to Secretary Morton’s indorsement. Daniel Coffey, one of the best-knowi detectives in the San Francisco polici department, committed suicide by shoot lug himself in the head. His relatives are unable to assign any cause for tin 'iced.