Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

J. D. Buxton, cashier at the Minneapolis postoffice, is said to be short in his accounts about $2,500. He is, a nephew of President Buxton of the City Bank. He refuses to say where the money went to. At Niehart, Mont., seven men were instantly killed, six seriously wounded and several others badly bruised and cut by an explosion early Saturday morning of the magazine in the Broadwater mine used for thawing powder. London dispatch: Gen. Booth has cabled to the Salvation army headquarters at New York instructing the officials in charge there to publish the letters in their possession in regard to the charges made by Ballington Booth against the general and his adaiin is t ration. . The London Globe, discussing the effect of the election policy of the Spanish premier, Senor Canqvas del Castillo, says that either Cuba must be allowed to follow the example of the South American republics or the motherland must grant a generous measure of autonomy. Two firemen were crushed to death and several others seriously injured as the result of a fire which destroyed the old depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Thirty-second and Market streets, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, and entailed a loss of about $200,000. Herr Brand, the architect of the late King Ludwig of Bavaria, has died, leaving many millions. King Ludwig, the mad king of Bavaria, bad building as well aa Wagner on the brain. He spent large (umi in raising castles, palaces and villas, and when he died left an enormous debt thjd has n<?tT£t . been-paid eff ; the result o f his indulgence to this weakness. The German Government intends to ask of the Reichstag large credits for quickfiring field cannon almost immediately. A member of the general staff says Francois recent move in that direction 'has long -been anticipated, _ „