Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The attendance at the Nashville exposition is increasing. There has been some loss of life by heavy floods in Italy. Yellow fever is spreading and iiicreasing in virulence in New Orleans. ... The people of Kansas have paid off $160,000,000 of mortgage indebtedness since 1890. - The National Bank of Asheville, N. C., has closed its doors. No statement has yet been made. Fruit growers of Northern California estimate their losses from recent heavy rains at $1,000,000. Several points in southwest Virginia report having experienced an earthquake shock. No damage is reported. President McKinley declines to allow the national administration to become involved in the Greater New York campaign. The Collector of Customs at Portland, Ore., seized a lot of beer and whisky, labeled catsup, on its way to Alaska by the steamer Elder. High tides and higher winds that drove the sea inland have caused an immense amount of damage along the New Jersey and Bond Island coast. Col. R. A. Ammon and William J. Wood, recently arrested in New York on the charge of attempting to blackmail Samuel Keller in connection with the E. S. Dean & Co. failure, were discharged. Burglars shattered the safe of the State Bank at Blairsburg. lowa, with dynamite and secured $6,000 in securities and a small amount of cash. One robber was shot and is in the hands of the authorities. Henry Ives Cobb of Chicago, who designed the fisheries building at the World's Fair, has been selected by the State Capitol Commissioners to draw plans and to supervise the building of the new Pennsylvania State capitol at Harrisburg. Hon. Sir Richard Henn Collins, judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Judicature since 1891, has been appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in succession to the Right Honorable Sir Nathaniel Lindley, recently appointed master of the rolls. Over $90,000 of alleged fraudulent warrants on the United States Treasury on the account of the Creek Indian nation in Indian TerritofSPhave been discovered by Government authorities. The alleged fraud was perpetrated in connection with the payment of the Creek Indian nation debts, and only the barest details have reached Washington. One of the persons implicated has made a confession. William R. Foster, who in 1888 stole $193,000 from tihe gratuity fund of the New York Produce Exchange, has been captured in France. Two wildcats billed to Ohio from Fall Brook, Cal., fought in an express car on the Santa Fe Road between Kansas City and Chicago, and the larger devoured the Gov. Adams of Colorado received a dispatch from Meeker announcing that Game Warden Wilcox and party, in frying to arrest Utes on Snake river, fired and killed and wounded seven Indians. Trouble la feared.