Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

/ Gov. Altgcid restored the rights of citieeuship to Thomas Maher, of Joliet. At Buoyrus. Ivan., two'masked men attempted to rob'the railroad station. W. A. Gilman, the agent, offered"resistance, mid was shot through the lungs, being mortally wounded. The robbers then tied. t J. H. Ferguson was found dead in his room at the Albany Hotel, Denver, Colo. Mr. Ferguson went to Denver from Pittsburg as the representative of the Pennsylvania In-ad Company. He was also Identified with the Sail-Domingo smelter ut ftjlt Lake City. % " “May the curse of God fall on you and yours and allow me flftmt'the minute I drop from the scaffold to haunt you day find night until your death. Then I will welcome you oil” the brink of'eternity with a red-hot iron.” These wore the farewell words of Harry Hayward to his bAdher Adry Sunday afternoon at Minneapolis. lie hurled them at the latter as lie descended the stairs leading to the tier in vvhich the prisoner was confined end passed through the iron doorway to Hie outer "office. It was their last,meeting on earth, uml such ihe murderer of Catherine Ging intended It to be. : Mrs. I.ibbie Custer, wife of the famous General, Friday commenced suit at Toledo, Ohio, to recover title to a piece of 'property willed her some years ago by ah aunt. Hhe inner knew she owned the’ Jiroperty.dintil some one discovered in ooking over 1 he records it hud beeirpold for taxefe. She was notified ajid, immediately took sp-ps to recover. t Fire at the town of Marieslad on Lake • IWener in Sweden caused a damnge of 1,000,000 krone (about $270,000). Many E-oplc were injured by the fiames, and K) out of a population of less than 2,600 ■e left homeless. ~ _ . -.v'-i, * u r