Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

George Henry ‘’Boughton, the distinguished artist, has been elected a Royal Academician. TheSmith,Wilson & Sears Paper Company, of Holyoke, Mass., has called a meeting of its creditors. The liabilities are $200,000. A terrible explosion of fire damp has taken place in a mine at Brunnerton, New Zealand. Five persons were killed outright and sixty more are entombed, with no hope of being rescued. The latest contest in the famous Davis will case has just been filed at Butte, Mont., by Mrs. Htilda Queen Davis, of Tehaehapi, Cal., who claims to be the widow of the dead millionaire. The Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds voted to recommend the passage of the bill appropriating $2,000,000 far a new public building at Indianapolis, Ind., the bills for government buildings at Oakland, Cal., and Waterbury, Conn., and also the bill for the purchase of a site for a building at Salem, Oregon, - v Mrs. Josephipe Snyder died at Fort Jarvis, N. Y., of poisoning, as alleged. Her linsband. Jacob Snyder, died Tuesday night. At the autopsy evidence of poison was found in his stomach. Mrs. Snyder’s ante-mortem statement has been taken, but Coroner Harding declines to reveal its contents. The daughter of the Snyders, Mrs. Martha Whittaker, is under guard. The Massachusetts State Republican convention, in session at Boston, elected delegates to the St. Louis convention, adopted a platform declaring for protection and against the free and unlimited coinage of silver and presented the name of Thomas B. Reed of Maine as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. The Transvaal republic has formed an offensive and defensive alliance with the Orange Free State. A Montreal florist is suing Queen Victoria for $1,900 for flowers supplied at the state funeral of Sir John Thompson. Marcus Poflasky, of the law firm of Doolittle, Tollman & Pollasky, of Chicago, has brought snit in the United States Cirepit Court for the southern mma 6f Torh agamst Colli* P. Huntington for $374,000 for breach of contract in connection with the construction of S*n Joaquin Valley Railroad.