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

BREVITIES.

Large drafts of soldiers have been ordered to be got ready in London to re-en-force the eight British cavalry regiments now in India. Three persons were burned to death and seven more were severely injured in a fire that destroyed the Hotel Brooklyn at Kelletvtlle, twenty-five miles southeast of Oil City. Pa. The President has appointed Medical Director W. K. Van Reypen to be surgeon general of the navy to succeed Surgeon General Bates, deceased. George B. Anderson of the District of Columbia has been appointed consul at Grenoble, Franco. Wheat bulls had the best day they have had in a month, prices up 3c to 3%c, with not a trace of manipulation, and with all the motives natural ones. December opened at 91%c, sold between 91 %c and 94%c and closed at the top. May was only %c under December at the close. The one hundred and fifty-first birthday day of Princeton University was celebrated, at Princeton, N. J. More than usual interest was manifested in the commemoration on account of the presence of exPresident Grover Cleveland and Lord Aberdeen, governor general of Canada. Little girls at Derby, Kas., while on their way to Sunday school, found the dead bodies of Frank Moon and Jane Wells in a well on Moon's farm near that town. Mrs. Wells obtained a divorce vorce from her husband at the last term of the District Court. After she went to act. as housekeeper for Mr. Moon, the latter's wife having Ibft him a short time before. It is believed their food had lieen poisoned, and that after they had died the murderer had dragged the bodies to the well-ami thrown them in. The Sioux City. lowa, dressed beef and canning plant will be opened by the Cudahys of Chicago by Jan. 1. Their lense is for ten years. One thousand laborers will he employed and $200,000 expended in repairing the house. It is almost certain that competing firms will reopen the Silbcrhorn and Bqoge plants also before the first of next year. At Omaha, Judge Powell, before whom the suit against the Bartley bondsmen has been pn trial for three weeks, ruled that the bond was invalid on a technicality and thus leaves the State nothing but an appeal to the Supreme Court. The Fowler Cycle Manufacturing Company of Chicago has made an assignment to the Chicago Title and Trust Company. Twenty-five thousand , dollars’ damage was done in a freight wreak on the Columbus, Hoeking Valley and Toledo Road near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and two men Were injured.