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

BREVITIES.

Clarence Murphy, alias C. I’. Clarke. was arrested- at San Francisco. He is wanted at Salem, Mass., for the alleged embezzlement of SOO,OOO two years ago from the Salem Savings Bank. He was taken to the detectives’ room in the city hall to be questioned, and while there succeeded in making his escape. He was pursued by policemen, fired at aud finally recaptured. . t The old American miser who died in Paris recently, it now appears, was named Peters. Mr. Peters deprived himself even of the necessaries of life aud only spent a franc and a half (30 cents) daily on his meals. He is supposed to have been interested in a large concern in America and to have received from it checks for his portion of the profits. The Governor of Kansas, called a meeting of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners and urged the importance of some action looking to the restoration of .grain rales recently advanced and greatly affecting all shipments to Galveston and the South. The Governor urged that the Kansas board act in concert with the railroad boards of Texas and Nebraska. The New York Stock Exchange governors have notified Edward L. Norton, of the exchange, that he must diBSoUc his business relations with L. C. Briggs and Asa P. Potter, two of hi* partners in the firm of Allen & Co.

The ice crop at St. Joseph, *Mo.. is considered a failure. Friday contracts were made by St. Joseph firms for ice to be harvested at points in Wyoming aud on the northern Jakes reached by the Burlington BaHway. Not a pound of ice was pnt up during the early winter freeze, and it is considered there*trill be no more