Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

A cloudburst broke over Seueca, Mo., at 4 o'clock Saturday morning, and in ten minutes the water in Lost creek swept through the city like a mill race, carrying away every structure in its path. Not a bouse in the district south of the creek is left intact on itsitohndations. T wentyfive persons were ’drowned. At the request of the Rev. J. O. Gary, pastor of the Methodist Church at Virginia, Minn., Gov. Clough sent a sherifFh posse to that town and broke up a prize fight. Mr. Gary received a notice signed “The Whitei.Caps, by the Secretary.” ordering him to make himself scarce at once or suffer the cbnsequeneesm,. Mr. Gary has made an appeal to the •authorities for protection. Messrs. Mersick and R. A. Brown, appraisers of the affairs of Peek Bros. & Co., wholesale plumbers at New Haven, Conn., with branch stores in New York. Chicago and Boston, who went into the hands of receivers last February, reported to Judge Prentice the total appraisal to be $876,502.95. The liabilities are about $600,000 The Northern Pacific liner Victoria hronght news io .Tacoma, JWash\.of Ihe plague on the island of Formosa and at Anping. The deaths at Anping number from ten to fifteen a day. —The disease is rapidly spreading