Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Gov. Jones of Nevada is dying of cancer of the stomach. , Minnie Palmer, the actress, is to marty the Duke d’Estelle of Navarre on May 15. Gen. Ezetg. and his .filibustering expedition pgainst Salvador are reported to have been captured. At Richmond, Va., Jacob Hackett and T. K. Hackett assigned to-day. Liabilities $25,000 and SIO,OOO respectively. The New York Board of Health censusshows that there are 10,942 old maids in that city, and that there are 24,055 more women than men of marriageable age. The Spanish cabinet has refused to accept the resignation-of Captain General Campos, in command of the forces in Cuba, and has decided to send him large reinforcements. A high officer of the Government is authority for the statement that unless Turkey makes prompt reparation for the burning of American mission buildings at Harpoot the United States will collect the $40,000 indemnity by force, probably by seizing the Smyrna custom house. k Eight imtsked men dynamited the safe of the Farmers’ Bank at Verona. Mo.. Friday morning and escaped wi£h $9,000 in cash, all it contained... The robbers entered the city on horseback, secured Night Watchman Hoover, and bound him to a tree across the street. They then easily forced the front doors of the bank, and in a short time literally blew the vault and safe to pieces with dynamite. ’ The anti-English manifestations continue in Venezuela. At Valencia the Venezuelans divided themselves into two parties—one English invaders and the other the patriots- and began a sham-tight. Those on the Venezuela side became so excited they went at in earnest, with the result that several who were enacting the rule of Englishmen received severe stab wolmds; . The police had to be called in to stop it. At an adjourned meeting of the shareholders of the Bank du People at Montreal, Que., it was 'decided to go into voluntary liquidation; $490,000 bas to be met at once and $4,000,000 of deposits in two year's. The directors have given a guarantee of $2,000,000 for the $4,Q00,000 deposited, for which they drexpersonally re«i>ousible, v John J. Ramage, ex-Auditor of Delaware County, Ohio, was sandbagged by three men near Marysville. He was robbed, thrown on a railroad, track, aud. run over by a train. He will Ipse an arm and leg and may die. The Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Platte Center, Neb., failed. The capital -stock of the bank whs shown by the last report to be $12,000. Howard A Haynie, of Duluth, Minn., owners of one of the largest retail dry goods houses at the bead of the lakes, made an asngsHent. (