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

BREVITIES.

Nikola Tesla has by means of X rays seen through the bodies, bones and all, of three of his assistants, placed in a line. Gold bondsof the Provisional Republic of Cuba to the amount of $2,000,000 are to be placed on the American, market. They are to draw 6 per cent interest, and are made payable ten years after the Spaniards evacuate the island. 4 The British budget, which was presented to the Hojise of Commons Thursday, gives the surplus for 1895-G as £4.240,000. The estimate of expenditures for the current year is £100,047,000 and the calculated revenue, £101,755,000. A Rome dispatch says: The papal nuncio at Madrid has been instructed to propose the mediation of the pope in order to bring about a settlement of the troubles in Cuba or to urge upon Spain the acceptance of President Cleveland’s reported offer of mediation. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of All Souls’ Church, Chicago, has announced that bicyclists will be welcome at the services conducted by him next Sunday, and that Their wheels will be taken care of free of charge. Knickerbockers and bloomers will not be barred.

At the Maine Republican convention for the nomination of delegates to the national convention at St. Louis the enthusiasm was centered about the name of Thomas B. Reed, the unanimous choice of the convention as candidate for President of the United States. The London Exchange Telegraph Company says it is rumored that Buluwayo has been captured by the Matabeles. The news is not confirmed from other sources. A dispatch from Aldershot says the Middlesex Regiment has been ordered to start immediately for South Africa... Considerable anxiety is felt regarding the South African situation, and the Government is openly blamed for its inaction. An ice jam in the Rideau river, Ontario, has backed up its waters to such an extent that for miles Ground farm lands are deeply submerged and it is feared much live stock will be lost. The Prescott and Ottawa branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway is for some three or four miles covered with water. To protect the trains going through gangs of men are at work keep.inJPhe railway track free from drift wood. Senator Allen proposes to make all veterans of the Mexican war and the rebellion eligible to appointment as brevet colonels in the regular army. Five hundred Italian immigrants, held at Ellis Island, New York harbor, for deportation, mad' - a break for freedom, and Fere only restrained by the revolvers in the hands of their guards. Major George A. Armes, U. S. A., retired, who achieved notoriety last May on account of his'arrest for trouble with Lieut. Gen. Schofield, is being sued by his wife for divorce on the ground of ill temper and cruelty.' Sydney Drew, the actor, tried coa?tiqg on a bicycle at Philadelphia and is now in a hospital nursing his bruises. An immense landslide has occurred at Trubb, Switzerland. Many farms have been devastated, whole woods have been carried off and the loss, is Baid to be very great