Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Central New York reports a heavy snowstorm Thursday. Bill Nye has canceled his lecture engagements and will rest until February. Tue lowest estimated value, placed upon tlie taxable property of the city of Chicago is more tllan ten times its assessed valuation for the present year. A fair appraisement of the city would fix its property valuo at not less than $2,500,000,000. This statement is based upon tlie conservative estimates of in■stirance7 financial and real estate authorities. Information has reached Washington that the members of tho Nicaraguan .Canal Commission have signed their report on the inspection of the proposed foute for the waterway and sent it to the State Department. It is generally believed that the report Is favorable to the construction of the canal under Government management. It is thoflght-the estimate as to its prospective cost will be about $100,000,000. •The Mexican National Exposition and Laud Company has been inoorporated under New Jersey laws. Its purpose is to hold an international exposition ba the City, of Mexico in 1898 under grants from the Mexican Government. The capitalization is to be $l,000,0(M), divided into 10,000 shares. Besides holding the*'exposition the company will build tramways and hotels, £rant Concessionß, establish a permanent amusement park and ’.enect buildings. The stockholders of the East Portland, Ore., First National Bank have decided by unanimous vote to liquidate and wind up the affairs of the concern. Its affairs nre reported by theMockholders and officials to be in good condition. The cashier, B. H. Bowman, reports money on hand to pay all depositors. The bank is one of the old institutions of the East Side, and has n capital stock of SIOO,OOO. In July, 1893, it closed its doors tern, porarily, but fully recovered. The ihstitution closes because its stockholders desire to retire from business. The Bardwell Evangelical Church nt Tunkhannock, Pa., was wn*cked with dynamite Thursday night while a gospel meeting was in progress. No one was Injured. The motive is ascribed to the bitter warfare growing out of the transfer of the church property from the followers of Bishop Dubs to the BowmanEsher people. The Kingisf Ashantee has routed the British ultimatum, preferring war to a protectorate. Jack Dempsey, the well-known pugilist, died nt his residence in Portland Thursday murniug of consumption. Ijla M. and Ella R. Nelson, of Chicago, who are trumping their way to Jacksonville, Fla., on a wager, spent Sunday in Lexington, Ky. At Clarksville, Tenn., Henry Baker was killed and one white man injured in a fight with a negro mob. Two negroes were badly injured.