Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

There were 393 new cases of cholera in Egypt in two days and 338 deaths from that disease, including those of three British soldiers at Wady-Haifa. “ James Gritlin, 12 years old, stabbed and killed his lli-yenr-old brother, Joseph Griffin, with a pocketknife at New York during a quarrel over the possession of a baseball mask. A rumor is current in railroad circles that Collis I’. Huntington and the Southern Pacific people have a hand in the new government ot the .Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. An expert counterfeiter is now hr the city lockup at St. I’nul. His real name is Richard Munroe, alias Charles Smith, alias “Whiskers,” a reformed ex-convict, who has been for some months under the eye of Hastings H. Hart, secretary of the Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities. Mrs. Louise Foltz, wife of Richard D. Foltz, committed suicide at Newcastle, Pa., by taking laudanum. Mr. Foltz then made a desperate attempt to kill himself, bjjt was prevented. Mrs. Foltz was a sister of James J. Davidson, Republican candidate for Congress. Her brother married a daughter' of Senator Quay. . r 1 — x—— ■ . . —— - ■ ■ •_ I