Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

According to a New York dispatch, the Cian-na-Gael is raising regiments in that city and at Chicago, Cincinnati and other places to tight for the liberation of Ireland, • ~, A cavern whiehswrpasses the famous = Mammoth Cave has been discovered in Edmonson County, Kentucky. The entrance is only two miles from the mouth of the Mammoth Cave. 1 A caravan comprising 1.200 men, while en route from Eldoma. Madagascar, was attacked by Chief Massai's followers' while passing the latter's kraals, (liver 1,000 of the men with the caravan were killed. , Frederick Wilhelm .Tohomme Beese. of Elyria, Ohio, celebrated his 100th birthday. He reads,.withemt glasses, is in excellent health-, works every day, shfives himself and never employed a physician in his life. Fred Hosford, 35 years of age, a wholo■ale and retail coal dealer at Burlington, lowa, committed suicide Monday morning by jumping from the upper story of Ihe Burlington elevator, a distance of 130 feet. His big business interests bad overtaxed his mind,Tendering him insane. A dispatch from Moscow to Berlin ■ays that a conspiracy against.the life of the Czar has been unearthed there. The dispatch adds that a numfigfof bonds have been seized, and that several men and women, including a prominent nihilist leader, have been arrested in connection with the plot. A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch says: Considerable interest has been created in Marion County, lowa, by the experiment of Jacob Bruce, at coffee raising on a ■mall scale. In the spring 1894 Brtice planted sevdh grains of fine Rio coffee and in the fall harvested half a gallon of an excellent quality. Most of this he replanted last spring in a tifteen-rod plat of ground and now has eight bushels of coffee, or an a,verage of eighty-five bushels per acre, lie is satisfied that the crop Is a sure ope in his locality and thinks it can be grown on a large scale and nt hu excellent profit.; - The situation in the Island of Creta is ■erious. In the attack by a strong.'Turkish force on the positions occupied by the Christians at Vryse twenty-four Turks wore killed and thirty-six were wounded. The Christians lint! five kilted ap'tndght wounded. At Alieampo the Turkfc massacred, three men, two women auditive children. v / Chief Justice T. L. Snodgrass, of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Monday morning fired two. shots at John It. Beasely, * prominent lawyer of Chattanooga, one •f which took effect in the-arm. Mr, seriouel;’ hurt, b|jt not fatally.