Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Spain' is reported to be mobilizing T§>1550 troops to re-onforce the army iu Cuba. ! y John and Eleanor Moulder celebrated their sixty-ninth wedding anniversary ’at Kokomo, ln|l. Colonel W. P. Thompson, president of the Nation*! Lead Company, died of pneumonia it New York. Arthur Duestrow, the St. Louis millionaire, who shot his wife and child two years ago, has been convicted of murder in the first degree. Great Britain is said to l*e considering the question of claiming 3.UU0.000 acre* of laud opposite Prince of Wales Island on the Pacific coast, now held by the United States. . , The Federal census of Mexico show* * population 6f 12,542,057. The City of Mexico has 30.955; Guadalajara, 82.870; Puebla, 91,917; San Luis Potosi, 09,676; Pachuca, 52.189; Monterey,, 50,825; Merida. 50,702; iacatecas, 40.020; Duraugo, 42,180. Oscar G. Murray has resigned as vicepresident of |the Big Four to become operating president and general manager of the Baltimore aud Ohio, in connection with J. K. Cowen as president and Edward R. Bacjon as chairman of the executive committjee. Judge Egnjn, of the St. Paul, Minn., Di strict Court, issued an order permitting the receivers'f>f the Walter A. Woods Harvester Company to make 10,000 machines this year. Tpe assets of the company exceed $1,000,0)00 besides the plant aud real estate, and a!ll debts will be paid. An agent of "the Chinese Government Is at Portlnnjd, Oregon, to place an order feet of lumber. . Most of it is intended for the, construction aud repair of government buildings. The agent says j indications are good for a healthy revival of lumber trade throughout China and Japan this and next year. Joseph'Cook, of Boston, who recently returned from Australia and Japan, is at the sanitarium, Clifton Springs, N. Y., suffering from an acute form of nervous prostrations He nearly blind owing to a weakness of the optic nerve. ’ He will be taken to his cottage at Lake George-early in the spring, where it ia hoped he will recover. Developments which came to light show th*t Leo Sellers, who was lynched ten years ago at Knoxville. Tenn.. for the supposed murder and robbery of $l,lOO from Edward Mainess, was an innocent' man. Iyizzie Hickman on her deathbed confessed that Ike Wright, a notorious character, was the real murderer. He is now being pursued by officers. A terrific tornado, accompanied by flood, ' hccurmT Thursday iu North Queensland, Australia, attended with great destruction of life and property. Many vessels are missing as the result of the storm. The rainfall during the tornado amounted'to twenty-sis inches, and it is estimated tbpt the damage to property will amount to £500,000 ($2,500,000). A large number of persons were drowned; v j The Stilson-Collins Jewelry Company, 1 of Atlanta, Ga., went into the hands of a received at the suit of the Gorham Manufacturing Company of New York. Mortgages aggregating $15,000 were placed on the stock previous to the appointment of A. I’. Stewart as receiver. The liabilities are about $50,000; assets between #50,000 and SOO,OOO. Lillie .Henderson, who says she was once employed as a stenographer by a firm iu Dearborn street, Chicago, attempted suicide at New York by jumping into the river. She wore SI,OOO worth of fen'elrr. It i« thought she is demented. 'I