Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Portions & Mitchell, dry, goods (Jealers at Midd let own. »n n.. a nneu nc<xl tha t on. March 1 the business there will be closed. No cause is given. This company is a branch of a concern having stores in Norwich. Conn., New York State, Michigan and Illinois. Mr. Bayard, United States ambassador to the court of St. Jnines, has written to the Lbridbn Daily Telegraph under date of Saturday, declining the proffered Christmas gift intended as a compliment to him and in honor of his efforts to bring about an era of good feeling between the United States and Great, Britain. He has asked the propriefors of the newspaper not to proceed to carrj otft their “kind and generous proposition” aloAg the lines planned. Peacock, Dunwoody & Hough, retail, dry goods dealers at Atlanta, Ga. t made an assignment to Willis E. Ragan. Liabilities, $53,000; assets, $71,000. The J. E. Owens Drug .Company of Kansas City, Mo., has' failed as a result of the Missouri National Bank failure. The bank 'holds notes of the firm aggegating $11,250, Armstrong & Brother, Jlio-oldest firm in. Eldorado, Ark., dealers in general supplies, have failed. Liabilities, $00,000; assets, about the same. The stock was ■old to Ritchie & Co. and H. P. Sinead •f Camden. ■.