Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Gaston Bethune, the well-known French artist, is dead. Carl, Gerber, a 4-year-old boy of New York, is dead as a result of eating jimson weed. A young lady in Emporia, Kan., recently stabbed a young man with a hat pin. He was quite “stuck up” by the occurrence. Lady Rachel Charlotte Wyndham-Quin, eldest daughter of the Earl of Dunraven, was married in Limerick to Fitzgerald, the Knight of Glyn. The case of ex-Treasurer Bartley, under a twenty-year sentence for stealing $500,000 from the Nebraska State treasury, will be heard in the Supreme Court Thursday. The jury in the Kansas City case of Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, for killing Frederick J. Jackson, with whose wife it was alleged Goddard had been extremely friendly, reported for the fifth time that they were unable to agree upon a verdict and were discharged. Chief Moore of the United States weather bureau, in his annual report to Secretary W’ilson, calls for an appropriation of $1,044,050 for the next fiscal year, and says this will admit of the establishment and equipment of new stations in important centers of population. A statement prepared by the bureau of statistics at Washington shows that the number of immigrants arrived in the United States during the first three months of the present fiscal year was 49,296, which is a decrease of nearly 11,500, aa compared with the same period lastyear.