Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At City of Mexico some excitement has been created by a rumor that Protestant missionaries had conspired to blow up a church containing the miraculous image Virgin Guadaloupe with* dynamite bombs or to set fire to the structure. A section of the city fire department is at Guadaloupe near the church. The North Atlantic squadron will go to sea again in a few days from Chesapeake Bay to resume evolutions. It is probable that the entire squadron, reenforced by the Main and Texas, and perhaps the battleship.lndiana, will continue these evolutions on a larger scale in southern waters during the approaching winter. ** Four masked aud armed men held up a street car on the Evanston and Chicago electric line at 8:110 Monday night in true Western style. They succeeded in carrying off between S2OO and SBOO, besides several gold and silver watches. Of the twenty-three* persons aboard the car only three offered resistance, and one of these was shot aud the other two badly beaten. The date of Illinois and Chicago days at Atlanta was fixed for Nov. 11 and 12, and arrangements are now underway to make it the biggest double event of the exposition. Nov. 12 is also “Georgia day" and “Grady day," and everybody is looking forward to a tremendous “blowout.” The Governors of all the neighboring States, with their staffs and bodyguards of State troops, will attend. At Myrtle, a small town thirty miles east of Toronto on the Canadian Pacific Uailway, several masked men entered the station and ordered Agent Courtney to throw up his hands. Courtney showed fight and was knocked insensible with a coupling pin. The safe was then forced open and $2,500 of the Dominion Express Company’s fuuds and S4O belonging to the railway company taken. Courtney is seriously'injured. Three vessels, one French and two English, have been lost on the south coast of Newfoundland, aud five men Were drowned. In the Indianapolis National Bank case against Francis and Percival Coffin, for conspiracy, the jury returned a verdict that Francis Coffin was guilty as eburged, and tfiat Pcrdval was not gnilty. 'The United States has called upon the Siamese Government to settle what is known as the Cheek claim. Instructions have bean gent to Sir John Barrett, Minister resident at Bangkok, to request uu Immediate settlement of this claim.