Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, died at his home in Glencove, Long Island. Merchants and manufacturers of France gave President Faure a great banquet in honor of his recent visit to Russia. Gov. Tanner has accepted the resignation of H. B. Gilman as ensign, second division, Second battalion, naval militia of Illinois. The town of Windsor, N. S., was fireswept and 3,000 people are homeless. The direct financial loss is $1,500,000, with about $500,000 insurance. A. O. Jones, owner of the Jones Brick and Terra Cotta Company of Zanesville, Ohio, has made an assignment. He will be able to meet all claims. Douglass Bolte, a negro leader, was lynched at a small settlement on Bayou Barataria, about fifteen miles from New Orleans. His offense was running the quarantine blockade. Eugene V. Debs has played the first card of his Social Democracy scheme down in Tennessee by bidding in the name of his organization for the contract to build a $300,000 railroad for the city of Nashville. Judge Foster in the Federal Court at Leavenworth, Kan., sentenced Joseph W. Oliver, convicted of dynamiting the residence of Gov. Smith of the Soldiers’ Home, to six years’ imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth. At Montreal, an organization known as the Canadian Independence Club has issued a manifesto which was distributed throughout the city, stating that the time had come for Canada to throw off its connection with England. United States Senator Gorman has issued an open letter to Edwin F. Abell, publisher of the BaltimoreJSun, in whic& he offers to relinquish the leadership of the Democracy in Maryland, providing Mr. Abell will accept it. The prompt manner in which the Dauphin County, Pa., courts declared unconstitutional the anti-fusion law passed by the last Legislature cause widespread interest in Illinois and neighboring States which have similar laws. In all probability test suits will be entered in other States as a result of the ruling of the Pennsylvania court. The anti-fusion law was passed in the shape of an amendment to the Baker “blanket” ballot act It is stated that Gov. Hastings would not have approved the anti-fusion amendment if it had stood alone. The trial of Martin Thorn, accused with Mrs. Augusta Nack of the murder of William Guldensuppe in New York, has been postponed until Nov. 8. Mrs. Charles Lonergan of Syracuse has identified the body of a man found on the track at Mntteawan, N. Y., as that of her husband. The body was sent to Chicago, where his mother resides. Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros hasWopted this country as her home. She haa signed her declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States at New York. Under the terms of her oath she has renounced all allegiance to Spain. Rev. Francis E. Marsten of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus, 0., has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Boston. George Greenwood, for many years a prominent business man of Duluth, Minn,, committed suicide by shooting. No cause is assigned for his action.