Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

cepted the invitation of the Premier of New Zealand, the Iloni Richard J. Seddon. for a conference at Ifol) art irneiT weFe luineir un3eF”tona of slate and coal Saturday .afternoon in the Mattie coal, -mine, near Princeton. Ind.. » the result of an explosion of pas and tire damp. Six dead bodies have been taken out. and eight men, each terribly injured, were rescued by, their more fortunate comrades, tyho were tiea r the entrahce tothe shaft when the explosion occurred. William Jennings Bryan stopped* at Cincinnati an hour Frida}'. While saying that his lecture tour was it success, it is understood that he does not • look with favor on his lecture engagement and may ask to be relieved. He remarked to a close friend that he had made a mistake In undertaking to deliver a series of nonpartisan lectures. - t LewisKlusman.a patrolman of the Cincinnati police' force, lost his life Friday caving that of another man. He caught -‘a horse running away with a bnggy, in •which Dr. Hosier was seated. He cheekad the horse so that the doctor escaped