Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The Duluth Gas and Water Company has been sued for causing the death'by impure water of a boy who died of typhoid fever. Bernhard Gillam, the famous cartoonist of Judge, died Sunday morning at the home of his father-in-law. ex-Senator James of Canajoharie, N. Y. His death was the result of typhoid fever. The House Friday passed the pension appropriation bill, to the consideration of which it had devoted an entire week. The pension bill as passed carries $141,'325,820,•■ab0ut $50,000 lees* than the estimate. The bill was passed fifty days ahead of any previous pension appropriation bill. At a Cabinet council held at Taris M. Berthelot, Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Anglo-French agreement regarding Siam was signed Wednesday, and that by its terms the Mekong becomes the boundary, and both powers undertake to refrain from an armed advance into the Menam Valley. But the Siamese territory west and east of it is excluded from this clause. The disagreement between the co-pas-tors of the First Presbyterian Church, Washington. D. the Rev. T. DeWittTalmage and the Rev. Adolos Allen, has been settled by the church session calling for Mr. Alien’s resignation. The trouble grew out of a plan to have Dr. Talmage preach Sunday mornings as well as evenings, to which his colleague objected. Dr. Talmage now will hold forth twice on Sunday. ' Charles A. Millmnn, of Kansas City, ex-State Representative and a prominent local politician, has been acquitted of the charge of poisoning an election judge in order, as claimed, that ballot-box staffers might proceed with their work unmolested. Mlllman was one of a dozen j>oliticians indicted for alleged crooked work committed in the spring election of 1804. Elder & Davis, general merchants at Monroe. La., have filed an application for a respite for one and two years.__Assets, $97,000; liabilities, SOO,OOO. The largest creditors are the local banks, $30,000 being due them. A Cape Town dispatch to the London Times says: “Dr. Jatheson’s mep are now being handed over to a military escort at the Natal border. Each man signs a declaration promising to proceed to England as a prisoner, and not to raise any question respecting his legal custody en route, nor to attempt to escape.”