Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Rev. Joseph Cook is reported to be at Kobe, Japan, broken in mind and body. Cardinal Satolli lias received the red skull cap, the insignia of his hew office. Governor M. J. Foster was renominated by the Louisiana Democratic State convention. An official dispach from Zeitoum says that the Armenians there, on Sunday last, massacred all the Turkish soldiefs imprisoned in the town. Federal,officers have arrested at St. Louis, Kansas City and Paola, Kan., the members of a dangerous gang of counterfeiters and seized $91,1X10 in bogus $lO silver certificates. Mexico has granted a concession to George E. Detwiler, of Chicago, and Emil B. Barry, of Boston, to bpild a railway along the,Pacific coast from Tehuantepec to the Guatamala frontier. They get about $5,p00,000 subsidy. William P. Harrison, son of Carter H. Harrison, the late .Mayor of Chicago. ar 3 - rived in San Francisco from an extended, trip to the antipodes. During his stay on the Samoan Islands over twenty-five individuals were devoured by the cannibals. By accident he escaped the same fate. Erastus Withan is a free man again, the New York .court of appeals having sustained til'd/ opinion of the supunne court reversing the judgment of conviction and sentence of five and one-half years. Wiman .was indicted for forgery, but it was shown that he was convicted and sentenced fotxiverdrawing his account with R. G. Dun & Co. Tn Denver, Colo., fire broke out in the Riche Block, a two-story building nt 16th and Cjirtis streets. The stores of Estes Shoe Companj, Babcock Bros., hatters and furriers, and Tucker Bros., furnishing goods, were gutted. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has refused a pardon to John Bardsley, the ex-ci*y treasurer of Plflladelphiu. Jdoyd Montgomery, the 18-year-old boy ’who murdered his father and rnofher and Daniel McKeercher, near Brownsville, Ore., has been found guilty of murder in the first degree * ’ ■