Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

Barney Barnato has guaranteed the payment of the fines of the reform prisoners released at Pretoria. Fire partly destroyed D. Lutz. & Sons’ brewery on Spring Garden avenue. Allegheny. Loss, $50,000, fully insured. The pope has written a touching letter to the Negus Menelik of Abyssinia in favor of liberating the Italian prisoners. Traffic on the Oregon Railway and Navigation line between Wallace and Burke, Ida., is suspended on account of the damage done by high water. Henry M. Stanley, who has been so seriously 111 as to ha v£ made it neoessary to send for his wife, has recovered and is able to start for London. Fire destroyed the five-story livery barn of Hermon Pohlman, on Fifty-third street, New York. Fifty horses were roasted to death. Tptal loss, SBO,OOO. The steamer Bermuda sustained a setback when Capt. Clipperton, the British consul at Philadelphia, notified the collector of Port Read that he had cancelled the steamer’s registration papers. This action was taken as a consequence of advices received from the British minister at Washington. * Ex-Gov. D. R. Francis has been appointed receiver of the 'United Elevator Company at St Louis on application of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company, which owns 1,900 shares of'stock, $97,500 in first mortgage bonds and $35,000 in second mortgage bonds, with R. P. Teney. who also is a stockholder and bondholder.