Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The Farmers' Loan anil Trust Company of New York has tiled a suit in the" United States Circuit Court at San Frau-t-isco, Cal., to foreclose a mortgage executed in its favor in 1889 by the Oregon improvement Company. The , litigation arises over a mortgage for $15,000,000 Issued in 1880 and given to the Farmers’ 2/oau and Trust Company ns a guarantee far the redemption of bonds for a like anouut indorsed by the company. The Colombian Government refuses to jiermit Peruvian troops to cross the isthmus :u order to reach the head waters of , the Amazon where it was desired to attack the Iquitos -rebels from that side. The Bogota authorities held that such permission would establish a had precedent. The isthmian press urges that the Colombian <-oin he protected against the foreign. Cape Coast Castle. Gold Coast Colony, Siritiah West Africa, dispatch: 'lt is rumored that Chief Samnry has attacked the Hakoranza country, north of Koomassi, capital of Ashanti. A detachment of busMm has left here tinder scaled orders.