Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

; .**• The schooner Edna M. Champion whlgh sailed from Philadelphia on Oct. 12 for Pprt Tampa. Fla., with n cargo of coal, and has not since been heard from, has been given up as lost by her owners, The vessel had a crew consisting of Capt. Frank Somers and nine men, and, with the cargo, was valued At $45,000. The following cablegram was received nt the Temple. Chicago, directed to Mis* Frances E. Willard, president of tho World’s W. C. T. TJ., and signed “by tho vice president. Lady Henry Somerset: “Ileigate, England.—President \V.*C. T. U., Temple, Chicago: Wo join prayers and influence to yours to avert greatest calamity possible to the world, a war between nations in whose history arc involved the highest hopes of humanity. God grant we may stand united to tight oppression everywhere. “LADY HENRY SOMERSET.;’ -i William Waldorf Astor is reported to be engaged to Lady Randolph Churchill. At Mamnroncck, N. Y., the home of Thomas F. Oakes, ex-president of the .Northern Pacific, at Orient a, \yu» entered by burglnrs and silver ware valued at several thousand dollars was stolon. Tho silverware included many heirlooms that were highly valued. R. L. Higginson, of Boston, has begun suit for divorce against his wife, who eloped to Italy with James W. Smith. .Otto. Hilruer,. of <Uu«igo, .com mil tedr suicide at Atlanta because he had made a. failure of a concession at the exposition. Larkin Tutt, a colored Baptiot minister residing at Clark, Mo., was taken, from a train at Sturgeon, Me., and given, a severe beniiug for using insulting language to some white women ou the train. He Would no doubt hate been tarred am) feathered bm for the timely arrival of th» police. i* tow 'Tjad-