Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

As the result of an agreement entered Into between American manufacturers of window-glass anil importers of the same product there will be an advance of 2% per cent, in prices. The importers have agreed to no longer handle the foreign product. The “Coochec-Cooc'liee” is under the ban in Georgia. The House of Representatives passed a bill making it unlawful to perform the dance In the State, The bill was introduced last year by Ed Jones, a society young man, who witnessed the dance a couple of years ago. Considerable sport was mnde of its author at the time, but the fact that the “Streets of Cairo" are now conducting t|ie business on the exposition grounds so shocked the members of the Legislature! l that their first action was to take up Mr. Jones’ bill and rush it through by an almost unanimous vote. A destructive fire raged in the oil regions south of Toledo, Ohio, but is under control. One estimate places the loss at $150,000. Cuban day at the Atlanta exposition has been postponed because of PresP dent Cleveland's objection to public expressions of sympathy for the insurgents •t this time. * V/-/ The population of lowa is 2,057,250. Patrick Callahan, of New York, known as “King” Callahan, jumped from the highest point of Poughkeepsie bridge, 212 feet, and was so badly injured that he died a few h#u« later 1