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

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Georgia Senate has passed the anti-football bill. Guiseppi Verdi, the celebrated composer, is dangerously ill at Rome. Secretary Sherman has appointed a woman temporary consul at Edmunstone, N. B. ' During the decade 1887-1897 the Unitarian churches increased by 13. Ten are self-supporting. For the murder of Vinie Bell George Weston, alias Winston (colored) was hanged at Paducah, Ky. - Thomas Edwin Cook, who was a leading circus clown, is dead at his home in Paterson, N. J. He was 96 years old. The Illinois grand lodge of Odd Fellows has voted to continue the construction of the old folks’ home at Mattoon. It has been discovered that the system of distributing pencils and penholders in Indianapolis schools is responsible for spreading diphtheria. Prof. William Ulrich, the founder andprincipal of the preparatory school for Lehigh University, died of Bright’s disease at Bethlehem, Pa., aged 50 years. Gen. Cassius Marcellus Clay’s young wife left the Clay mansion, Whitehall, Ky., ten days ago, and went to the home of her brother, “Clell” Richardson, at Valley View. It is said she will not return. -—s— Pecuniary embarrassment has reached an acute stage at the Yildiz Kiosk. Salaries of Turkish ambassadors are left unpaid for months. Since the departure of Galib Bey, ambassador at Berlin, another envoy has written Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister, declaring that he has sold nearly everything and lives almost entirely on dry bread, adding that he even fears he will be unable much longer to borrow that. At Lincoln, Neb., Secretary of State Porter has been fined $6.20 in police court for violating the health ordinance by butchering hogs within the city limits. Lieut. Alfred B. Jackson, Ninth United States Cavalry, military instructor of cadets at the University of Nebraska, died as the result of an operation for appendicitis. United States Minister Woodford has sent a letter to the Spanish cabinet expressing the satisfaction and gratitude of the United States Government relative to the settlement of the Competitor ease and other current questions. An attempt was mode to wreck the fast New York and Chicago express on the Erie Railroad at Greenville, O. This is the second attempt to wreck a train there. At Minneapolis, Mina., Aid. George A. Durnam, charged with solietthig a bribe of SIO,OOO from Halvorson & Richards for a contract, was found guilty.