Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Managers of the Grant monument fund in San Francisco hare decided to throw away the granite base quarried' by conricts ai\d substitute another madd 'bv free men. Candidates for divorce living in Oklahoma are making strenuous efforts to prevent the bill requiring a year's residence ■becoming a law. It has pHssed both houses of Congress. The American line steamer St. Paul, which arrived at New York Friday nigh*, broke her own record from Southampton to New York, and almost equaled the one made by the steamer Sew York Of the Mme'line On Sep‘t.‘*L4, 1894. Tie- til).* of the St. fHp was 6 days S> hoars 'ana's minifo's, for 3.112 miles, tin average of 20.3>1 knots an hour. Oaring a terrific electrical storm at large frame house on the farm of T. .1. Cramer, near Oeeau View, Vu.,' was •truck by lightning and burned to the ground, and two ufJta ucmpuiits perished in the fltimes.