Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

John R. Ta&ufcr. was badly hurt iu a runaway accident at Quincy. 11lNorthern .cotton yarn manufacturers Bare agreed ’‘to curtail production oueJialf during August. Ia answer to an inquiry as to the truth es a report published in New York that Pre*ident,Cleveland had made known his disapproval of the proposed third-term gtroject, the President telegraphs as follows to the Evening Post: “Buzzard's Bay, Mass.—lt is absolutely Untrue that X have given any advice touching the course of the Indianapolis conference.— ■Grover Cleveland.” • Claude Hoover was hanged Friday UDorning in the Omaha jail. Hoover expressed repentance. and said he expected %» go to heaven. He met death with grit god composure, his neck being broken. Last fall Hoover, .while drunk, shot pnd killed Counrilnum. Sam Dubois, bis broth-er-in-law. The shooting was the result «f some fancied wrong. H. Clay Evans declines to be a candidate for tbe Republican nomination for Governor of Tennessee. Thomas B. Reed has been renominated •or Congress by acclamation by the Republicans of tbe First Maine district.