Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Gen. Blanco lias resigned the Governor Generalship of the Philippines. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi has been elected president of the Societe Liberte des Artistes Franca is. , While excavating for a cellar under Trinity Church, Newport, It. 1., workmen found several skeletons, one of which was in a cedar coffin and was well preserved. . The burgomaster nnd sheriffs at Brussels have resigned owing to the adoption by the common council of a proposal fixing the minimum wage of communal employes at 3 francs per day. The prefcctorial commission at Paris has reported in favor of the removal of the Orleans Railroad terminus to the Bite of the Cour des Comptes, which was burned during the commune. A Berlin dispatch says Princess Bliznbeth of Lippe is dead at Delnod. She wps the widow of .Prince Leopold of Cippe, nnd was the Princess of Schwartz. burg-Rubolstadt. She was born in-1833. George W. Shiffier, teller of the First National Bank of Lebanon, Pa., is missing. He is thought to be suffering from temporary derangemctit, brought on by the heavy defalcations of Cashier Hoffer. Senator Yoorhees’ physician says the Senator cannot possibly recover and will never again be seen in Washington. He is suffering from progressive paralysis, and because of hjj age he cfmnot ba cured. * y ■ <. ■ , , T *