Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Benjamin Radcliff. tlie slas)rof the entire School Board of Jefferson district, Bark County, Colo., was hanged at.' the Canyon City penitentiary, With the exception of one Wisconsin town, alt the firms in the Northwest territory have promised to co-operate with the local lumbermen )r» curtailing the lumber cut. The object is to work off a surplus which has been piling up since 1891. W. W. Astor gives as his reasons for asking Henry J. C. Oust to resign the editorship of the Ball Mall Gazette the "constant sneers and disparaging comments on America” printed in the paper and the ••habitual disregard of Mr. Astor’s instructions.” The District Court at Minneapolis has ordered the enforcement of. the double liability law in the suspensions of the State and Citizens’ Banks. There is a deficit of s'-121,000, in the former case, and the stockholders will be assessed SO per cent in the latter case. An agreement has been reached by the minister of foreign affairs and the French minister in Santiago de Chili by which all claims of citizens of France against the Chilian government are to be canceled for the sum of £T>,OOO. It is said this is a very small amount iu view of the many claims advanced. They arose through allcg«>d wrongs perpetrated at the expense of Frenchmen resident iu the republic. Late Friday afternoon the treasury officials completed the computation of the bids received for thk new bond issne, from which it appears that the amount of the bids above that of J. B. Morgan and his associates ($110.0877) was $66,788,650, and that the amount which will be awarded to the syndicate therefore will be $33,211,350. or approximately one-fhird of the whole issue. The number of successful bidders id 781, distributed all over the United States. One man was killed, one fatally injured' and five others slightly hurt by the explosion of a 110-horse power boiler at the Ann and Hope cotton mill, R. I. President Kruger, of the Transvaal, has accepted the invitation of Secretary Chamberlain to_,visit England, accompanied by some members of the Transvaal executive board to act as a commission. At Bristol, Conn., Medical Examiner Hull announced that all of the men who were on the bridge at the time of the disaster Thursday night have,been accounted for, and that the complete death list eon tains six isr '..., '