Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Mrs. Mary Greiner, an aged widow of Tiffin, Ohio, was burned to death in her home. The town of Corral Nuevo in Matanzas Province, Cuba, has been captured by the insurgents. Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, lies in his home nt Bar Harbor 1 , Me., in a critical Condition. Near Kansas City, Kan., John Dodds, white, shot and killed Edward Carter, colored, during a dispute over $lO. William Carr is on trial at Kansas City, Mo., on a charge of having murdered his infant daughter by drowning her. In New York, Charles M. Murphy rode a mile on a bicycle in the startling time of 1:00 4-5. A gale was blowing at his back. Ex-Representative John M. Langston, one of the prominent colored men of the country, is seriously ill at his home in Washington. John C. Bullitt, Jr., an attorney from Duluth, Minn., was found dead in his room at a New York hotel, having killed himself with poison. At Warren, 0., hydrophobia in its worst form caused the death of 12-year-old Charles Gillis. The boy was bitten by a dog nearly six months ago. Dr. P. K. Drummond is in jail at Chillicothe, 0., having confessed assisting in stealing the body of Carlton W. Kelley from a cemetery at Londonderry. An explosion of gasoline in the basement of the Alcott building caused one of the most disastrous fires in the history of Fostoria, O. The loss will reach $50,000. A successor for Minister Kotzebue, has been appointed in the person of Count Cassini, the present Russian minister to Russian representative recently resigned, Pekin. —■ —; '' Twenty-five masked men took three Indians from the jail at Williamsport, N. D., and lynched them. The Indians were accused of the murder of the Spicer family last winter at Winona, N. I). Gov. Atkinson, of West Virginia, in an interview announced his candidacy for the United States Senatorship from West Virginia, conditional on the withdrawal of Judge Goff from the race. The Georgia House of Representatives has defeated the Craig anti-child labor bill by a vote of 98 to 39. I-t prohibited employment of children under 13. A. G. Gilliam, manager of the JonesNixon Publishing Company of St. Louis, Mo., and Democratic candidate for State Senator at the last election, shot and killed himself. Mayor Warwick has signed the death warrant of municipal ownership of the Philadelphia gas plant. The great enterprise in which the people have been stockholders for forty-three years is leased to the big American gas trust. Missouri girls propose to\ organize leagues to abolish the use of tobacco by refusing to entertain proposals of marriage from men who use the weed. Count de Vecchi, one of the best known Italians in this country, died at Washington, the resnlt of eating mushrooms supposed to be of the edible variety.