Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — MINOR News ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MINOR News ITEMS.

War the WaeK fltadtaff ffareSi X.An entire budfcess toiook at Hal lias; N. S.. wax bunuft, tim loss being iZSfI,OM. Dr. W. Godfrey Hqnter (rep.) witfafrom the senatorial contest tai Kentucky. The Massachusetts republican state convention has been called to meet in Boston March 27. A deficit of over 250,000 marks ft ns discovered in the Savings bank of Herr Lysabbel at Berlin. It was announced that Mr. Wiliams, tonsul-general of the United States to Cuba, had resigned. ;*. Rev. AUen Tlg>mjg>son died ac Bordentown, N. J. He was born in New Jersey oa May 21,1796. Republicans of the Seventh district of Missouri renominated J. P. Tracy, ot Springfield, for congress. / The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railway was sold at Akron, to the Hrie railway for $10,000,000. K. R. Hayes, who represented the Seventh lowa district in congress in 1890 and 1891, died at Knoxville, i Melville Kennedy (colored) was lynched by a mob at Windsor, S. C., for alleged assault on a young woman. Two children of Howard Allen, near Shanghai, Ind., were roasted to death In their home where they had been left alone. Advices from Washington say that horseless inail wagons will soon be used in all the large citiea of the United States. s - : Kansas democrats will hold their stato xionvnntion at Topek* on June 3 to elect delegates to the national convention. William R. Smith, who was elected to congress from Alabama in 1851 and served three terms, diedin Washington, aged 81 years. A tornado passed through the towns of Rodas and Los Abreus in Cuba, doing an immense amouht of damage and causing the loss of several lives. Thomas Jones, a widower with five children, angered because Mrs. Annie Muzz, of Denver, would notinarry him. shot her fatally and killed himself.