Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Auxt ro-Hwngnrian sugar refiners liffre formed a trust. • General Coxe.v is about to start a daily paper to boom his candidacy for Governor of Ohio., IjJighteen Foo-Choo rioters, convicted of murdering foreign missionaries, are to be put to death. At Uniontown, Ala., City Marshal Robert Britton was shot dead by Y. C. Metzger, a merchant. Prairie fires have caused great destruction in Finney, Greeley and Wichita Counties, Kansas. Thirty persons were drowned at Caliacuu. Lower California, by the storm which destroyed La Taz. Butler held it is a crime to send dunning letters in black envelopes. Bariiato’S sister-in-law, Miss Alice Holbrookes an actress now playing in New York City. She says the -Kaffir King’s”, real name is Bernard Isaacs. Burglars wrecked the safe of Hoge, Daly & Co.'s bank at Anaconda. MonL,with dynamite. The noise of the explosion aroused the town and led to their capture. The mine strike in the mountain region, extending front Johnstown, Pa., to Altoona, is not nearly so serious as reported. About one thousand men are out and at least four thousand are working. The 300 miners employed at the North Leavenworth, Kan.*coal shaft quff work end visited the Home River mines for the pnri>ose of inducing the miners atjhat place to quit. The North Leuven worth Company is paying SO cents a ton and the' Home Company 70 cents. The walk-out Is to foree the Home River Company to pay 80 cents. A general strike seems almost certain, as the Home River people •re not disposed to accede to the demands made. A serious fire at Millville. Minn., starting in A. J. Mucitlberg's blacksmithshop, destroyed the shop, Leonard’s store, Schmidt's Hotel and John Larson's dwelling. Albert Ilui'geson; employe of the machine shop, was huiwW to death. The postoffice building 'also burned, but the mail was sited. Loss, $4,000. > J. 8. Hacklcf, who claims credit for •(resting Frnker, the insurance swindler, will sue the insurance companies for the reward which be says was promised him. He threatens sensational disclosures if Ihl CMB fj| tried. '