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

BREVITIES.

The Philadelphia street car strike will be settled by arbitration. Fire, in a hbtel at Bluefield, •W. Va., resulted in a monetary loss of $50,000, one man's life, and the severe injury of several others, « While skating oil Lathrop I.ake, seven miles west of Denver, Charley Jones, aged S, fell through an airhole in the iee. His brother Robert and sister Maggie, agedr 21 and 20 respectively, and Ida Ball, aged 16, attempted Jo rescue him, and all four were drowned. A. D.. Thurston, who in 1886 organized the Order of Railway Telegraphers at Clinton, la., and was its grand chief for seven years, is at Clinton, Mo., police headquarters there with his wife find six children destitute and cared for by the city. lie is helpless from rheumatisn|, and while en route overland to, Springfield narrowly escaped drowning while camping near a small stream. ' ' . The United State cruiser Boston, which has been nndegoing repairs at the Mare Island Navy Yard for the last foul months, went to sea- Friday on a trial trip. The Boston is the oldest of the new .White Squadron. One hundred thousand dollars has been spent on its repairs. Its battery has been rearranged, upper works Strengthened, and its protection deyk newly sheathed, and its eniiheS'overhauled. Albert Neeland, a photographer of St. Louis, who is .said to have three wives, was arrested at St. Joseph. Mo., when about to marry another, Miss Grace Woodward, a girl <jf 17. Neeland’s last victim, whose maiden* name was Mary Hull and who had been deserted, arrived from St. Ixuiis and put a detective on her husband’s trail. He was surprised jn the company of Miss Woodward. Neeland is said to have two wires living notnewhere in Illinois! He is isi jail. A cabinet meeting was held nt the White House Sunday, afterncpm and a decision reached to make 1 ar«ar.gqments for another sale of bonds for goW at the earliest practicable moment. An officer of the treasury was selected to go to New York at once to confer with the bankers an'd make arrangements for the new issue. In playing about the room the 4-year-old child of Joseph Koehler, a well-to-do farmer near Upper Sandusky, knocked a loaded shotgun off a table. The gun discharged, striking Mr. Koehler and cauaan injury that resulted in death. <