Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The Greater Kansas City scheme was carried. At Mexico, Mo., Joe Jess, 25 years, hanged himself. Deposits in North Dakota State banks have increased 7G per cent in sixty days. The three great cracker trusts are reported to have agreed on a plan of consolidation. J. J. Smith and Dr. Smith, brothers, were killed by W. W. Milwee in a street dud at Horatio, Ark. Rev. John Lewis of New York has decided to accept the call to the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Three farmers of Huntsville, Ark,, fought over a young woman they were in love with and all three were fatally injured. Judge Day, now assistant Secretary of State, will soon retire from public life to resume the practice of law at Canton, Ohio. John Lucas, a wealthy stockman of St. Joseph, Mo., was fatally gored by a mad bull. Lucas wore a red bandanna handkerchief about his neck. Haytians are greatly excited over a report that two German war ships are on their way to Port au Prince to enforce demands in the Lueders case. At Marshall, Mo., William Haley was found guilty of murdering his brother-in-law, John Pinknrd, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Martin Thorn, or Torccswisky, convicted of the murder of William Guldensuppe, was sentenced at New York to be electrocuted in the week beginning Jan. 10,1898. An American syndicate, in which Andrew Carnegie Is interested, has'applied to the Corean Government for three important railroad concessions, which the syndicate proposes to develop in connection with the Seoul-Chomulpc line. The Italian chamber of deputies has appointed a commission of five to inquire into the charges against Sig. Francesco Crispi, former premier, in connection with the Bank of Naples scandals and the alleged illegal traffic in decorations. In the United States Court for the northern district of the Indian Territory at Muskogee, I. T., Judge William M. Springer rendered his decision in the matter of the applications of certain persons to be enrolled as citizens of the Cherokee nation, and held that bona fide residence is essential. Two masked robbers entered the home of John Hartong, a fanner 89 years old, near Akron, O. They tortured and threatened the old man into insensibility, but he refused to give up his money. When he was unconscious they searched the house and found in a belt the farmer wore night and day SBOO. Hartong lives alone and is wealthy. The Government bas decided to qualify as a bidder at the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Dec. 16, in case the reorganization committee fails to guarantee the Government what is regarded as a fair and just figure for Its interest. Secretary Gage has decided that the Netherlands Government pays a bounty on all raw and refined Bugar exported from that country, and hence, under the new tariff act, all sugar from the Nether lands entering the United States is subject to a discriminating duty equal to the export bounty paid.