Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Allen W. Van Deuzen, art editor of Outing, of New York, Is dead at Gowanda, N. Y. Cecil Rhodes, the former premier of Cape Colony, is seriously ill at Intanga, South Africa. A'tfcAtlanta, Hoke Smith, former Secretary of the Interior, has been elected president of the Board of Education. Sister Gonzaga, the oldest sister of charity in the United States and for over fifty years the superior of St. Joseph’s orphan asylum, Philadelphia, is dead. Sister Gonzaga was born near Emmetsburg, Md., in 1812. Francis Gambler and Annie Lower, while buggy riding in Milwaukee, were run down by an electric car. Gambler was killed instantly, and Miss Lower is so badly injured that there is little hope of her recovery. State Senator F. Q. Felts has filed with the secretary of the Nebraska State board of transportation complaints and applications for orders to compel the express and telegraph companies doing business in this State to reduce their charges one-third. Ethel Sprague Donaldson, granddaughter of Chief Justice Chase and daughter of ex-Gov.' Sprsgue of Rhode Island and Mrs. Kate Chase, who was the belle of the court during the Lincoln administration, has gone upon the vaudeville stage. The drouth which has prevailed in Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Nebraska, the eastern portions of the Dakotas, Minnesota, lowa, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and other portions of Illinois, has been broken by abundant rains. At Philadelphia, the representatives of twelve breweries located in the central eastern part of Pennsylvania signed an agreement for the consolidation of, the twelve concerns into one corporation, to he known as the Central Pennsylvania Brewing Compnny. The company will have a capital of $10,000,000. Fire destroyed the flouring mill and warehouse of John M. Cain, at Atchison, Kan., together with the eon-tents; the flouring mill and contents belonging to the Central mills; the Cain block, a two-story brick structure, containing four stores, and five small frame buildings. The aggregate loss is about $75,000; insurance about one-third. A girl in the St. Paul Hospital is being kept alive by artificial respiration produced by attendants constantly working her arms. The patient is suffering from Laudry’s paralysis, and the physicians think there is a chance for her recovery. President McKinley lias appointed George H. Bridgemau of New York minister to Bolivia. Ambrose W. Naulin was appointed collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Indiana. I)avl4 W. Henry wa»s appointed collector of internal revenue for the seventh district es ' Indiana.