Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

President Cleveland has gone to Quantico on another duck hunting trip. Friends of Mos. Maybriek. who is serving a sentence in a British prison for poisoning her husband, declare that she will soon he liberated. Adolf Ladenburg. of the firm of Ladenburg. Thalmau & Co., .bankers of New York, disappeared during a severe.storm. from the steamship Niagara, two days out from Nassau. A ful] meeting of the Michigan Republican State Central Committee was held in the office of Senator McMillan, the chairman. Detroit was selected as the; place and May 14 as rhe date for holding the State convention to choose delegates to the national convention at St. Louis. At Minneapolis. Otis L. Billings was •tW-Scte -twi n charge of perjure. M the instance of W. E. Dodge, counsel for the Great Northern road. Billings went before the grand jury and swore that Dodge, representing the Great Northern road, jiaid him SIOO for fixing a juror in a damage suit. The jury found no bill, but Dodge was threatened with arrest, and he retaliates by having Billings, who is an attorney, arrested. Falk & Landey. of Fort Wayne, the oldest wholesale liquor firm in northern *• Indiana, dosed their doors Monday morning and placed their business in the hands of Harry Jacobs as trustee. The firm was worth at one time $50,000. Mr. Falk says the hard times and the Nicholson law forced them to close. He savs thev have $12,000 in accounts out in saloons'where the proprietors have bWn refused licenses under the local option clause of the Nicholson la w. Mr. Lester has been in Cincinnati for some time under orders from Gov. Bradley, investigating the evidence in the Pearl Bry; case toSsecure data to govern the liayment of the reward-offered for the ap- \ prehension of the murderers. Mr. Lester has notified the officers of Campbell County that he has reported to the Governor that he is not satisfied the murder was committed in Kentucky and therefore that the payment of the reward cannot now be made. Alex Anderson. Arthur Swanion and Olaf Norden, while drunk, quarreled at Bloomington. II). Norden and Swanton attacked Anderson, who. was terribly clashed with a knife and then thrown over the guard rails to the track, thirty feet below, where he was found insensible. Norden and Swanzon are both under arrest. The doctors say Anderson will die. A salary reform movement has been started by the nomination of a Massillon, O-. ticket by the Buckeye grangers. Bethlehem township candidates are pledged to •ecept half of their present salary and flpend the other half on county roads.