Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At Grafton, 0., two Italian brothers who slept together in the same bed were awakened by three masked men, two of whom held one of the brothers while the third stabbed the other brother to death. Robbery does not seem to have been the motive for the crime, ns several hundred dollars in the house was not touched. It is-believed the deed was instigated by the Mafia. The three men escaped. Another startling discrepancy has been discovered jti the accounts of Omaha City Treasurer Bolin, whose downfall occurred last May. His bondsmen then discovered the shortage to he nearly $33,000. r Expert accountants, who for months'have been checking up the books, have reported to the Council finance committee an additional Shortage of $77,000. At MilledgCville, Ky„ n hoy named Wal.rrs, while playing, secured a revolver and shot his two little cousins, two girls, aged 4 and 8. A third was also injured. The boy then sent a-ball through his own head. .HnandJiisTwo , „ u *“ "" The St. Taul wholesalers are chafing ander the exactions of the sugar trust and will revolt They are required to put up heavy financial guarantees that they will not sell sugar below the tm»t price v About $20,000 of tbeir capital it Continually tied t\p in this manner.