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

NEWS NUGGETS.

Richard Croker is resting at Hot Springs, Ya. The Green Mountains in Vermont are covered with snow. The latest war talk concerns a probable conflict between Japan and Russia over Corean affairs. Miles of quartz running SIOO to the ton in gold is reported to have been found in Fergus County, Montana. J. S. Thomas, a forger who had broke jail at Chicago, made his second escape from jail at Memphis, Tenn. James Allen, a school teacher at Sedalia',' Mo.. anacked'Tty a student whom he had punished, died of his injuries. A fire at Louisville, Ky., burned out Bareford & Lawson, wholesale milliners, causing a loss of $150,000. Taylor Crum, a prominent attorney of Fargo, N. D., was fined S2OO and sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt. Ex-United States Senator Nathan Fellow Dixon died at his home in Westerly, R. 1., after an illness of about three weeks. At Stoneboro, Pa., the boilers at the Mercer Iron and Coal Company's works exploded. Three men were killed and seven injured. Judge Beach in the Supreme Court refused to dismiss the suit brought by Mrs. Angell to establish her right of dower in the estate of Jay Gould. Temple Emanuel, the Jewish synagogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth and Curtis streets, Denver, was totally destroyed by dre. Loss, $35,000. Acting Mayor Scobey, of Denver, has approved the ordinance recently passed by the Council fixing a license fee of sl,600 for all dealers in cigarettes. Nine miles cast of Belton. Mo., Arthur Wright killed John Hess and shot the latter's father, William S. Hess, at their home. All those involved are farmers. Albert Carjo, managei: of the Theater du Vaudeville, was given a scratch on ■the arm. in a duel at Paris, by Editor Servanines, of the Paris. The affair grew out Of a newspaper article. Two brass buttons with the initials of the Dnhrth’police department were found' in the stomach of a moose dressed in,that <city. z As one of the patrolmen is out on n moose hunt the department is somewhat agitated. The House of Representatives of the Georgia Ix*gishvtnre has passed a bill by a vote of 73 to 19, making the playing of foot-bsll within the State limits a misdemeanor, and imposing a fine for violations of this net. _ * .y. The Lorillard-Bercsford stables. Sandie, ridden by "Tod” Sloane, won the old Cambridgeshire handicap in England. La- | ter, Meta IL, also of the Lorillard-Beres-ford stables, with "Tod” Sloane up, won the Newmarket free handicap. Charles It. Hosmer, of Montreal, general manager of the Canadian Pacific telegraphs, general manager of the Pa- ; cifie Postal Telegraph Company and vice |.preside-*.'. t of the Commercial Cable Company, says that within the next year the J Canadian Government will undoubtedly -construct and complete a telegraph line to Dawson City. Fire destroyed four steam lumber kilns, five lumber sheds and over 1,250,000 feet of lumber, the property of the Central | Coal, Coke aud Lumber Company, at &/Texarkana, Ark. The loss is over SIOO,-