Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Every business house in the town of Afton, I. T., was destroyed by fire. The loss is over $50,000. Ed Stafflebaek, one of the notorious family of murderers, in jail at Columbus, Kan., has gone stark mad through fear of lynching at the hands of a mob. Mrs. E. J, Jackson, charged with being an accomplice of Dr. G. W. Goddard in the murder of her husband last April, was discharged by the grand jury at Kansas City, Mo. The State Department has been notified that the Colombian Government has suspended the export duty on coffee, which amounted to $1.60 per 110 pounds, and was a war tax. All kite records were broken at Blue Hill observatory, Mass., when the topmost kite of a string of seven, with four miles of wire, attained an altitude of 10,015 feet above the sea level.