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

Telegraphic Brevities.

An unknown, man and woman were asphyxiated in a New York hotel. Sir Charles Stavely died at Dublin. He’was conspicuous during the Crimean and the Chinese wars. t While exploring an onyx cave -neap Mansfield, Mo., a party of hunters unearthed four human skulls. The Alabama Senate has passed a bill permitting women to practice law in all of the courts of Alabama. A committee of investigation has found that great cruelty is practiced in the Waterbury, Vt., insane asylum. A locomotive that will run 200 miles an hour has just been completed at the Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelh ia.' Bondsmen of ex-County .Treasurer W. J. Dawell, of e Omaha, hate been called upon to make good an alleged shortage of |3,500. A- flowing oil well has been discovered at the bottom of San Franfcdsco Bay. it is located about 500 yards to the south of. Goat Island. , Robert A. Whitehand, proprietor of the “Old Curiosity Shop” store in Washington, committed suicide by blowing out bis braiM. " , ~