Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The new Greek cabinet has been formally installed in office. Thousands of houses were destroyed and many lives lost by a typhoon that ■wept over Japan. The Afridi and Orakzai chiefs have held a council at Kooi and have arranged a plan to oppose the British advance. Mrs. Ballington Booth says the report that the Salvation army and the American Volunteers may unite is without foun- ■'; dation. , ‘ ‘■ ■ ■ ' ' Prairie fires have caused great devastation in Manitoba. At Beausejour two women and five children were burned to death. France has demanded of Brazil an immediate settlement of the Amapa question and an explanation of Brazil’s delay In the matter. The Pittsburg baseball club has offered Manager Ned Hanlon of Baltimore $12,000 a year and an interest in the club to manage the pirates. Indianapolis was given the ‘Western League "Temple cup”' by the Columbus players, because neither team cared to continue the series. Mrs. Frank Davis, wife of a farmer living near Schuyler, Neb., put strychnine in the breakfast coffee. The mother and four children are (dead. Osman Digma, the principal general of the khalifa, is retiring with his army on Omdurman, opposite Khartoum, leaving the road between Suakim and Berber open. The schooner Henry May was wrecked off Longport, X. J. The captain and crew of five men were rescued after battling with the waves for over twenty-four hours. Henry George, who has already been, nominated by two organizations for Mayor of Greater New York, received a third nomination for Mayor from the People's party, which will unite with the Democratic alliance and the United Democracy in the formal notification. Henry Savage Landor, the artist, traveler and writer, who went on an exploring expedition to Thibet for the London Mail, has returned after a terrible experience. He was arrested by the Thibetans and sentenced-to death, but the sentence was commuted to torturing with hot irons and being stretched on the rack. Mr. Landor was seriously injured. Indiana has quarantined against refugees from the yellow fever districts of the 6outh. The State board has been authoriced to expend SI,OOO of the emergency health fund in establishing a quarantine. Immediately the board will station agents at the Illinois-Indiana line whose duty it will be to inspect trains from St. Louis, and at the Indiana-Kentucky line to inspect trains from Louisiana. ■ r ' Fire broke out in Austin, Pa., and in five hours’ time every building in town but five was burned to the ground. Probably 500 people are homeless. The fire wai started by a load of hay being run into a gas jet. In all, about 100 buildings were burned, mostly residences, among the losses being the Methodist Church, f Presbyterian Church, and opera house. A passenger train on the Kansas City, Wort Scott and Memphis Railway ran into fe a wagon containing seven persons at Dead Man’s cut, three miles north of I Willow Springs, Mo., instantly killing six and fatally injuring the seventh.