Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Feri Seott, Kan., has been suffering from a water famine. Fire destroyed $25,000 worth of property at lia Grange, O. At Greenfield, Mass., John O’Neill, Jr., the murderer of Mrs. Hattie E. McCloud, was sentenced to be hanged on Jan. 7, 1808. Aid. George Durnam of Minneapolis, conviotcd of demanding a bribe of $lO,000, was sentenced to six years and a half at hard labor in the penitentiary. Attorney Van Martin,former prominent lawyer and politician, committed suicide in jail at Stillwater, O. T., while awaiting trial for embezzlement and forgery. Chas. EX Meuser, formerly city clerk of Durango, Cblo., surrendered himself to the police in Chicago, saying that he had embezzled SSOO of the city funds of Durango. Commodore Dewey, president of the naval trial board, has returned to Washington from the sea trial of the lowa, ■which he declares is the best ship of her class in the world. John D. Rockefeller telegraphed to the faculty of Mount Holyoke College at South Hadley, Mass., that he will add $10,600 to his previous gift of $40,000 to complete Rockefeller Hall. Mrs. M. A. Trigg, aged 52 years, and her 10-year-old daughter Ethel lost their lives,in a fire that destroyed their residence in Topeka, Kan. The mother perished in trying to save her child. M. Patenotre, the French ambassador, has referred the question of reciprocity with the United States back to his Government, and there is no immediate prospect of the conclusion of the negotiations. William Lsekridge of Kansas. City, whose sentence to five years in the penitentiary for robbing the Bank of Savannah St Savannah, Mo., two years ago, was recently confirmed by the State Supreme Court, lias disappeared. He was out eu a $3,000 bond. Jobs R. Scott, the colored politician and Ileiniblican leader in E'lorida, is in the county jail at Jacksonville, charged with the inorder of Rev. Obadiah Adams, pastor st St. James’ A. M. E. Church, in Brooklyn suburb. Seott and Adams had a revolver duel ti-.ere. When a jury in the District Court in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, acquitted twa murderers Judge Laughlin said: “Gentlemen, I find it is entirely useless to prosecute crimes in this county. It seems that murder is justified here. You can all be discharged permanently and go home.” A huge combination of capital, with St. Louis as the central figure, has been formed. The St. Louis interests are those of the Niedringhaus Brothers, known as the St. Ixtuis Stamping Company, and the Qranifie City Steel Company. The plan is to concentrate at that point the manufacture of <*nameled ware, which will hereafter be entirely under the patents of the Niedringhaus concern. The combine will have $25,000,000 capital. J. P. Morris, a young man, killed himself with a revolver in the Hotel Pfister at Milwaukee. He had registered as coming from Madison, Wis. The Hyland & Brown department store at Elmira, N. Y., has given chattel mortgages amounting to $65,000 to creditors. The assets and liabilities are each $150,000. The ohinook winds and rains are playing havoc throughout western Washington State. Telegraph lines are down in all dtrections, rivers and small streams •re awaHen, and railroads are suffering Crons washouts and flooded tracks.