Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Col. Francis W. Rhodes, brother ot Cecil Rhodes, has been escorted to the border of the South African republic by Boer officials. The retrial of the case of Roliert F. Kneebs, the American horseman accused of racing a mare under an assumed name, has been set in Berlin. Earl H. Siver, aged 7, and Thomas I. Melville, aged 12, of Russell, 111, were drowned In Opaline creek while picking pond lilies for the celebration of Children s day.