Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

President Barrios, of Guatemala, has formed a new cabinet. Severe earthquake shocks have been felt in Switzerland and in Turkestan. Yale’s football team has gone into training to try new plans for the fail games. NVilliam Harrison, the billiard player, made fifty three-cushion caroms in sixtyseven innings. The Greek press rind public think the peace; treaty with Turkey is very onerous tokGreeee. With the exception of one store, the entire business portion of NVilmore, Ky:. was destroyed by fire. A Northwestern passenger train struck a switch engine at Milwaukee and both engines were wrecked. It is said the Duke of Tetuan, minister of foreign affairs, will soon be made Spanish ambassador to France. Makelie defeated El Capitan at Delavan Lake in the last race of a series. Yachts had hard sailing in a gale. Ail of the churches in Pueblo, Col., Sunday night took up collections for ihe suffering coal miners of the East. Minneapolis was chosen as the place for holding the next annual convention of the National Association of Underwriters. Ferrouh Bey, councilor of the Turkish embassy at St. Petersburg, is said to have been appointed Turkish minister to the United States. Officer John R. Reidy, treasurer of the St. Louis Police Relief Association, drew $4,100 from the State Bank and has not been seen or heard of since. The highest kite ascension on record was made at Blue Hills observatory, Boston; the top kite reached an altitude of 10,016 feet above the sea level. It is announced that the Grand Duke of Baden, whose wife is the only daughter of Emperor NVilliam, is dying with cancer ana that his days are numbered. The body of NV. 11. Hartman was found iri the Ohio River at Sandusky. A tightly drawn leather strap around the neck gjws rise to the theory that he was murdered. A gang of Oneida Indians raided and robbed a saloon in the outskirts of Green Bay,. NVis. After a fierce tight with the sheriff and police five of them were arrested. Silver bullion advanced 3-8 penny per ounce Friday in London and 1 cent in New York. Friday’s bid of 57 cents per ounce du the New York market is 3 cents over the price of a week ago and nearly 6 cents over the lowest price of August. The bad harvest affects seventeen Russian provinces and it is feared it will also be felt in 1898, as the drought has prevented sowing winter wheat in a large area. The immense reserve stocks will prevent a famine, but the peasants are ruined for several years. The attempt to resume work at Pardee's Lattimer, Pa., mines was not successful, only 300 out of 1,300 men showing up for work. The Huns are again threatening trouble. At Eckley when strikers attempted to prevent the miners there from going to work, Companies 6 and E of the Fourth Regiment gave the would-be workers protection. United States District Judge Foster of Topeka, Kan., made a sweeping decision when he declared the organization known as the Kansas City Live Stock Association illegal undrir the provisions of the anti-trust law. The exchange is an organization of commission men, who eon—trol the sale of live stock in Kansas City. Judge Foster enjoins the commisaion from doing business. The company store at Blossnurg, N. M., owned by the Raton Coal and Coke Company was blown up by gunpowder. The building and contents were destroyed. Glasgow authorities are making a vigorous examination regarding the finding of the body of a young man buried in the gralu ou board the steamship Tower Hill, Which airived from New York. tghe decomposed b<al.v of a man, supposed to be that of Frederick Webber, of Chicago, one of the men who went over Niagara Falls in a rowboat with two companions four weeks ago, has been taken out of the whirlpool.