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

BREVITIES.

The famous McGarrahan claim against the United States is to be revived by cousins of the dead litigant. President Cleveland signed the Catron anti-prize fight bill Friday afternoon, making it a law in immediate effect. A train 6n the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf, while making t'he trip around the Georgetown loop, near Denver, C’-10., Sunday afternoon, was blown from the track aud all the passengers more or less injured. " A shifting engine on the Baltimore and Ohio ran into a 2d avenue electric car at* Rankin's Crossing, nine milps east of Pittsburg, Friday morning, killing Conductor W. H. Cooper and fatally injuring Motornym John Riddley. The accident was caused by slippery rails. Fred Price, the star center rush of the University of Georgia, who left Athens, Ga.. several weeks ago to join the army of Gomez, writes from Pinar del Rio of an insurgent victory in which he participated, but does not seem to have a high idea of the warfare in Cuba. ‘‘lt is hot half as exciting or dangerous as football,” he says. Brice says he is getting $24 a week in good American money for his work. Friday evening it was supposed Frank H. Speedier had been attacked by robbers while attending to his duties as depot agent at Toledo, Ohio. He was found lying in his office senseless from a blow inflicted with a heavy iron poker. Speedier, when he revived, claimed an express package he had just made up, containing sllO, had been taken while he was un-. "Conscious. Sunday night lie acknowledged he had s'truck-'himself with the poker. Speechet* is said to be short about $250 in his accounts. i*eter L. Atkins, of Middletown, N. Y., took Mftud Kelly, aged 23, out driving Sunday night. In the darkness Atkins drove off the road into a flooded meadow. Tlie water was nine feet deep, and the two stood on the seat on the wagon and shouted for help for an hour. They were heard, but could not be located; and both succumbed to cold and exposare. _ At Kansas City, Mo.. Louis Frank, aged 21 years, of respectable parents, was shot and fatally wounded by Maud Clifford in a rage of jealousy. The affray occurred in a restaurant, to which the woman had followed Frank. Ohio Knights of Labor have .voted to ask Congress to give another hearing on the charges against Judge Ricks, of Cleveland. - ' j John Hays Hammond, the American I- mining engineer charged with the leaderskip of thejate uprising at Johannesburg, Transvaal, has been liberated on bail, i