Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Smyrna was shaken by an earthquake. Cuban insurgents are burning canefields within ten miles of Havana, John J. Burns committed suicide in Moyameusing prison, Philadelphia. Sonly Ryan was hanged at Greensboro, N. C., for the murder of his wife. The Alma National Bank of Alma, Ivan., has been authorized to begin business. The new revenue cutter Onondaga was launched at Cleveland in a blinding snowstorm. Charles Page Bryan has been unanimously indorsed for minister to China by both houses of th# Illinois Legislature. Stephen Spellen, who killed Michael Roher at Dubois, Pa., was shot dead while attempting to escape his pursuers. The board of directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has organized for the ensuing year by electing John K. Cowen president. A call has been issued for the ninth annual convention. of the United Mine Workers of America at Columbus, 0., Jan. 11, 1898. President Wernz of the St. Louis Guarantee Loan and Mortgage Company has been acquitted of the charge of embezzling $17,800. Freight traffic through the United States and Canadian Sault canals for the year 1897 exceeds all previous years by nearly 2,880,000 tons. Five burglars broke into a store at Canaan, Blonn., and four were eaptured by Martin Reed, the night watchman, after he had wounded two of them. The public administrator at Loma, 0., found $15,000 hidden in the house occupied by the late Mrs. Benjamin Picker, who was supposed to have been very poor. The Nebraska Supreme Court has taken under consideration the appeal of exState Treasurer Bartley, sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for embezzlement. The Masonic grand lodge of New Jersey has purchased a fine property at Burlington in that State to be used for a State home for Masons, their widows and orphans. Chief Officer Hooper, Second Mate Bentley and three of the crew of the wrecked bark Marion Harris arrived at New York on the steamer Hevelius from Pernambuco. The four trades of window glass workers are again arranging to amalgamate under a new national association, but no attempt will be made to disturb the present wage scales. Dr. Noah Fields Drake, a graduate student in geology of Stanford University, has accepted a position in the Tien-Tsin University, China, and he will leave for thft orient on Feb. 1. Judge Dale in a decision against the Santa Fe road for refusing a return pass to I. P. Campbell, who shipped cattle, has given the plaintiff judgment for fare, costs and attorney’s fees. Judge Smith of Sioux Falls, S. D., has decided that the State peddler law, which traveling salesmen to take out licenses, is unconstitutional, because it conflicts with {he interstate commerce act. Bills of complaint were filed in the United States Circuit Court at Cleveland, 0., by the Commercial National Bank, the First National Bank, the Mercantile National Bank, the Cleveland National Bank, the National City Bank and the National Bank of Commerce, all versus R. S. Hubbard, as treasurer of Cuyahoga County, to prevent the collection of the increase in taxation assessment on the bank shares as ordered recently by the State Auditor. J. M. Underwood of San Francisco, who has been in Washington arranging for a right of way for the Alaska Central Railroad Company, declares that his company will run its first locomotive into Dawson City by June, 1898. He asserts 4 that the company's engineers have discov- | ered a new route far better than any of the old ones. Albert S. Warner pleaded gnilty at Albany, N. Y., to an Indictment found against him for assisting in the kidnaping of Jahnny Conway and was sentenced to Clinton prison for a term of fifteen years at hard labor.