Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Gen. Weyler has sailed from Cuba for Spain. The fruit crop of California is menac«d by the Mexican orange worm. Fire broke out in the main slope of the Von Storch mine at Scranton, Pa. An extra force of men was at work timbering the mine. A medal of honor has been presented to Ila jor General Daniel E. Sickles, U. S. A., retired, for most distinguished gallantry while in command of Third army corps at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863. At Columbus, Ohio, 'William S. Ide was shot ami killed by John Smith. Ide was a banker and a brother of Commander Ide, U. S. N. Smith was arrested. He followed and shot Ide as he ran. Smith is an English coachman, who says Ide owed him $1,700. One million four hundred thousand dollars in cash is the price paid by the Standard Oil Company for 20.000 acres of oil kinds in the Bradford (McLean County) Pa., oil fields. On this property are 400 to 500 producing wells, with a daily production of over 5,000 barrels. Most encouraging reports come from all sections of Nebraska regarding the winter wheat acreage, and the condition of the growing crop. The amount sown in some localities is 25 per cent greater than last year, and will average 75 per cent greater for the State at large. There is practically a corner in the ocean freight room for cattle on the transAtlantic steamship lines from Philadelphia and Baltimore. The entire space has been engaged of the White Star Line and the Atlantic Transport Line for one year, beginning Jan. 1. and of the National Line for two years from the same date by the representative </f a syndicate said to be composed of English buyers of cattle. Someone broke into the Sumner High School (for negroes) in St. Louis through one of the windows, went downstairs and turned on the full water pressure into the boiler. The water shot up through the steam pipes into the radiators and escaped through the valves. It soaked through the flooring and flooded the whole building. School was dismissed until it can be dried out. About SSOO worth of damage was done to the plastering. There is no clew to the perpetrators, but it is supposed to have been done by someone in the neighborhood, as a protest was made when the school was built. The United States warship Yantie came into collision opposite Sillery. on the St. Lawrence river, with the coasting steamer La Oanadienne. One man was reported missing, but ft is believed that he jumped aboard the Yantie. The Yantie was en route from Boston to Detroit, .where she will serve as a training ship for the llichigan naval reserves. Thomas P. Smith, of Plattsburg, N. Y., has been appointed supervisor of Indian schools. Blue jacket, chief of tht Shawnees. and a historic character, is <l|id at Wichita, Kan. Three men were killed 1| the falling in of the bank of a ditch L|ing excavated for the laying of sewer pipes in the village of Sumnerville, Ga. The Army and Navy Union, in session a<t Kansas City, adopted resolutions criticising the Chicago press for its method of treating Fort Sheridan news.