Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Affairs look so serious in Spain that American tourists are leaving the country. King Menelek, of Abyssinia, is reported to be negotiating for an alliance with the dervishes. A New York delegate to the Republican national convention proposes to go to St. Louis on a bicycle. Troops B and Iv of the Seventh Cavalry have been ordered transferred from Fort Sheridan to the department of Colorado. It is stated that glanders are rite in the quarantine for imported horses at Liverpool, and it is reported that out of 100 Canadian horses in one depot forty are suffering frqm the disease. J United States Senator Elkins is the father of a bill to place a discriminating duty of 10 per cent on all goods imported into this country in vessels not sailing under the United States flag. John Hays, a clerk in the general store of,P. r Hays, his brother, at Puente, Cal., was shot and killed by two masked robbers. John Pugsley was found dead in a New York tenement. He had lived in abject poverty, but left more than $1,500,.000 in real estate in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Florida. Measles is running its course in the President’s family, and Friday morning Ruth, the first born, contracted the disease. Little Esther is progressing rapidly toward recovery, and so far Baby Marion has not shown signs of the ailment. Henrietta Crossman, leading lady for the Frohmans, has begun suit for divorce at Youngstown, Ohio, alleging nonsupport and drunkenness. , The garrisons which were bclcagued by 4b» Aihtlmi* Utwgeste on the island of Java have been relieved. Forty Dutch soldiers were killed or wounded.