Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The Italian cabinet ha* decided against reopening the campaign of Abyssinia in the autumn on the ground that such a course would be disastrous to Italy. The trunks, wardrobe, hordes, and carriages belonging to Mrs. Tom Thumb were attached at Washington for a debt of $730 said tp be due A. J. Drexel, Jr., of Philadelphia, for printing. The conference at San Franqiseo voted to suspend _ r. Brown, the pastor recently acquitted of a serious charge, by a vote 0f.43 to 32, until he could prove his innocence. Leo Hetlpern. who was S3O short in his accounts with an insurance company, committed suicide at Winona, Minn. He had been out of the i>enitcntiury a year on good behavior. The. German Iteichstag unanimously adopted Herr Adt-’s motion calling upon the Federal Government to energetically combat with all the means in its power the illegal practice of dueling. Mr. an,d Mrs. Barney Cullen were, burned to death in their home near Caster, Orange Csufny. 7f.~T.’ They perished together in the sitting room, where Cullen had dragged his wife from their bed in his effort to save her. Morris Cullen, a son, fractured a leg in jumping from a secondstory window. . " ’■? With; the object of breaking up a trust recently formed by wooden ware manufacturers of the Mississippi valley, the big packing companies of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City have placed orders on the Pneifi.’ eoast. ehtefljl with Tacoma factories, for 201) carloads ,ief lard pails, butter tub< and ayrnp and jells AJkil&