Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — MINOR NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the A .ek Ending March 8. The Glen knitting mills at Cohoes, N. Y„ were burned, the loss being SIOO,OOO. The will of E. W. Nye (BIU Nye) leaves an estate valued at $73,000 to his wife. ’ ' . A distinct earthquake shock was felt at Caldwell, Kan. Jso damage was throe.' til Rear Admiral Henry Walke died at his home in Brooklyn, JL Y, aged 88 years. After a session" lasting 54 days the South Carolina legislature adjourned sine die. A hew minister for Italy was formed, with Marquis di Rudini as premier and Geu. Ricotti as minister of war. A fire in warehouse No. 3 of the Union Warehouse company at Louisville, Ky., caused a loss of $200,000. W. A. Burleigh, who served two years in congress 30 years ago, died at h» home in Yankton, S. D„ aged 76 years. Andre Mondehare, Frenhh vice constil for Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, died at hie residence in Denver, aged 42 years. •' i Attacked by a mob of white caps in Peru, Fla., Bowen Sykes shot four men fatally and six others were dangerously wounded. Dispatches from Havana say that a majority of Cuban merchants have agreed to boycott the products of the United States. ■ George Edmund Fobs was' renominated by acclamation, as the republican candidate for congress in the Seventh Illinois district. Three children of John Hahn, a prosperous farmer of the ChoctawHa tehee valley, Geneva county, Ala., were burned to death. - Daniel Talmage’s Sons, rice merchants in New York, with branches at Charleston and New Orleans, assigned with liabilities of $200,000. The Northwestern Normal school, with an enrollment wt, 400 students from almost every state in the union, was burned at Stanbury, Mo. The G. W. Van Duzen & Co- elevator at Minneapolis was burned, entailing a loss on the structure of $200,000 ana $000,090 on the stored wheat. The TepuWioan *», Mississippi and Florida, elected delegates to the nation hi convention favorable to McKinley for presMent. Edward poek. a young barber at Oakland, Cal., shot and killed Diana Pacheco and thenktljjed hknseif. Objeetions to their getting married, was the cause. ■ Philip 4 & mSmber of the publishing firm of Harper Brothers, of New York city, died at his home in Hempstead, L. 1., aged 72 years. . ' The Providence hosiery mill wgs destroyed by firp at Bristol, Pn, The loss is estimated at thought to be fully covered by inimrance. About 300 hands are thrown but of work.