Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

The date for the .national G. A. R. encampment has been fixed for Sept. 5, 1898. Robert Peel, a grandson of Sir Robert Peel, is a student in Boone's academy in Berkeley, Cal. Women cheered for football in the Virginia Legislature halls and the anti-grid-iron bill was defeated. The treaty of peace between Greece and Turkey has been ratified by King George and the Sultan. A. C. Harmsworth, proprietor of the London Daily Mail, has presented the arctic ship Windward to Lieut. Peary. At Lima. 0., about §1,500 worth of clothing stolen from Stapleton’s store at Cridersville was found secreted in a school house. Beverley Ward, Jr., 24 years old, a wellknown golf player and yachtsman of New York, was found dead in his room from an overdose of narcotics. In Morehouse parish, near Hamburg, Ark., William Wilkins, a young planter, was struck by his brother. Jasper Wilkins, the blow causing death in six hours. Friends of Lawyer Ira P. Hudson of Mankato, Kan., supposed to be the victim of the mysterious murder at Riverside, Cal., say that the body there was not that of Hudson.

Letters seized at. Rio Janeiro prove that " Vice-President Periera was nt the head of the revolutionary movement which led to the recent attempt to assassinate President Moraes of Brazil. Mrs. William F. Burden, widow of the millionaire iron manufacturer, gets the income of her husband's estate, valued at $0,000,000, during her life, after which it is to be divided among Mr. Burden's brothers. —.— The residence of Patrick Leahy in Ottawa, Ont., was burned and Leahy and five of his children, Thomas, Marie, Katie, Maggie and Patrick, the oldest but 9 years of age, perished. Mrs. Leahy and a boy named Frank, aged 5 years, were saved. The Bachrach Tailoring Company, the biggest merchant tailoring establishment in Kansas City, has made an assignment for the benefit of the National Bank of Commerce. John Long and Paulina Carr, whose claims aggregate $21,694, of which $18,900 is due the bank on notes made since last August. After the assignment Solomon Stein & Co. brought suit by attachment for $21,133 for goods furnished for the fail and winter trade. Private letters from Madrid say that the Government is alarmed at the menacing attitude of the populace, and has placed artillery at concealed points commanding the main thoroughfares, but is afraid to trust the gunners. It is also eaid that the royal family is making preparations to flee to France at the first sign of revolution. The Oakland, OaL, police are convinced that Patrick Murphy of Temescel, who was assassinated, was killed by Frederick Uhl, a maniac, who also attempted to kill Edward Kearney and Constable Gus