Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The sugar crop has been gathered in the Sagua district. Cuba, and shows 50,000 bags, against 600,000 bags last year. * Jacob Rich, as an individual, and the First Street Railroad of San Jose, Cal., have filed a petition of insolvency. The •'total liabilities are $600,000. The assets consist of the electric and horse lines of the company and a large amount of real estate owned by Jacob Rich, Col. Robert T. Harvey, the father of W. H. Harvey of Chicago, of free silver fame, died at his home in Huntington, W. Va., Friday evening. His death was sudden and probably was due to apoplexy. He had just entered tile 82d year of his life and was among the. wealthy ipen of southern West Virginia. He was many years ago a politician of influence. Central Kansas within a radius of fifty miles of Salina was deluged with a fall of * water during Thursday night varying’ from five to eight inches. Gypsum creek Is over n mile in width and the farms are under water. r