Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Henry Westendorf. a Cincinnati retail grocer, has made an assignment. Liabilities $35,000. The cause assigned is dull business. News of the death of Antonio Maceo, the Cuban leader, has been confirmed by an official dispatch from Havana. He was killed in an engagement with the Spanish forces. At Albany, N. Y., Superintendent of Insurance J. F. Pierce reported to the Attorney General the East River Mutual Insurance Corporation. Ixmg Island City, as an insolvent corporation. There is a deficit in the company's capital. stock of $115,188. The first shipment of California fruit this season, which aft-ived at Southampton Wednesday, was not of the quality that fetches the highest prices in the London market. The prices realized at the auction sale were very good, the best pears bringing 10s 6d and the lowest 4s 6d; average cases sold for (is to Bs. The plums were also too small, but realized 7s (id a crate of four boxes. At a campaign meeting at Florence. S. C., Judge Joseph 11. Earle, candidate for the United States Senate to succeed J. L. M. Irby, and Gov. John Gary Evans, who is a candidate for the same office, came to blows. Earle struck Evans first and Evans responded by’ a blow under the eye. They were quickly surrounded and separated. Several men had their hands on their pistols, but comparative quiet was restored ami Gov. Evans attempted to continue his speech amid much disorder. Elizabeth Baldy, an angular, sharp-fea-tured, middle-aged woman well known to the police of New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore, has be-en held to the criminal court at Baltimore. Md.. on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses, bne advertised extensively for girls wanting employment. She admitted that she had received $2 each from at least twelve victims feir whom she secured no employs tnent and who received a couple of papers in return for their money. Thej>oliee iielievc that she has victimized hundreds of poor girls. ‘lt is believed by the leaders of the Cleveland, 0., strike art the Brown hoisting works that terms of settlement between the men and company will be agreed upon, and that Work will be resumed nt once. Propositions have bee i made which are likely to be accepted, but the locked out men refuse to give the terms of the settlement. »’ The Freeman’s Journal of New York lias information from a trustworthy source that the pojie has given Cardinal Satolli his choice of returning to Rome or remaining in America, and that the apos l , tolic delegate has elected td rirftiain.