Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

Rev. George H. Houghton, pastor of the Church of the Transfiguration, better known as the “Little Church Around the Corner,” is dead. President Belaya of Nicaragua is send ing a commission to the United States and to Europe to sell the Nicaragua National Railroad and steamboats. A mob destroyed eight tollgates near Nicholasville, Ky., and warned the keepers to quit. The monthly statement of imports and exports issued from Washington shows the exports of domestic merchandise in October last to have amounted to $109,584,000, a loss nearly of $2,500,000 as compared with October of 1896. At Tiffin, 0., George F. Michael filed suit for divorce from his wife. They'were married in 1859 and ten children were born, the youngest being 16 years of age. He charges her with gross neglect of duty during the last five year*.