Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The Khedive of Egypt is the father o t a second daughter. Baron Gautsch has been intrusted with the task of forming a new ministry in Austria. The Chinese government proposes to establish a school for Chinamen in San Francisco. John O’Connor, a farmer living near Bradner, 0., was killed while loading a gun to go hunting. At Youngstown, 0., Thomas Edmonds, charged with killing John Haley of Niles, pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree. Thomas Young was shot and fatally wounded in a drunken quarrel at Canton, Kan., with Frank Parks. Parks is under arrest. Gales have caused numerous shipwrecks on the English coast. Lord Nelson’s old flagship, the Foudroyant, has been dashed to pieces. At New York, William C. Woodward, alias “Big” Hawley, who was convicted of attempted blackmail on Samuel W. Brigham, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. United States Minister White has been instructed to ascertain Germany’s intention toward Hayti and to enter a protest should they include annexation or an excessive demonstration.

A representative of a French syndicate Ip at Faribault, Minn., from Paris, to secure from the Orinoco company, whose headquarters are there, a portion of the gold territory on its Venezuelan concessions. At Lincoln, Neb.. Eugene Moore, exAuditor of State, charged with the embezzlement of $23,000, was declared guilty as charged. Sentence was deferred. Moore and his attorney admitted the shortage, but contended that it was not embezzlement. Information has reached the administration that France, while ostensibly engaged in negotiations with this government looking to the conclusion of a reciprocity treaty, is taking steps to place a prohibitory tariff upon a number of articles of American production. William T. Jeffrey of Portland and William A. Roberts of Biddiford arc candidates for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Speaker Reed's district. General Cassius M. Clay's child wife, Dora, ia seriously sick at the cottage of her brother, Cecil Richardson. She has peritonitis, the result of being thrown from a home several weeks ago. In his cell in the county jail at Liberty, Mo., William Carr, under sentence to be hanged next month for drowning his 8-yeax-old child in the Missouri River, tried to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of pounded glass.