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

BREVITIES.

Cuban conservatives reject the autonomy plan. The United States training ship Alliance has arrived in New York after an extended cruise. Burts Scrafford and Clifford were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Clearwater, N. Y. The death rate among cattle during the recent storm in Texas was fully 35 per cent in some-localities. The constitutionality of the civil service law was sustained in an opinion given by the Illinois Supreme Court. The orange and lemon crops of southern California have beenjnjured by frost during a succession of cold nights. George Gould denies that S. H. H. Clark is to succeed him as president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Elkhart, Goshen and Southern Railway Company has been incorporated in Indiana with $250,000 capital. Mechanical Rubber Manufacturers’ Association has decided to advance the price of rubber cotton hose 10 per cent. A man registering as Edward Irving, but who was supposed to be Edward J. Epstein, committed suicide in New York. Robbers blew open the safe of C. W. Astle, a merchant of Haven, Kan., and got away with a considerable sum of monfey. The directors of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Michigan Centriil railways have declared semi-annual dividends. William Pool, sentenced to the Arkansas penitentiary for twenty-one years in 1892 for the murder of John Evans, has been pardoned. Albert Warner, the chief conspirator in the plot that resulted in the kidnaping of little Johnny Conway, is now in jail awaiting trial at Albany, N. Y.

Charles Kunzmiller, the assistant cashier of the defunct German National Bank of Denver, has been found guilty of making false reports to the Comptroller of the Currency and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, the minimum penalty. J. Pierpont Morgan is said to be planning a big anthracite coal distributing concern, which shall at once act as the representative of all coal-producing and coal carrying companies, and do away with all middlemen between the producer and the consumer. . The Mechanics' National Bank of New York has brought action in St. Paul against William Dawson, William Dawson, Jr., and A. B. Stickney, as assignees of William Dawson, asking for permission to sett 2,060 shares of preferred stock of the Chicago Great Western Railway held by the bank as collateral for a promissory note of SIOO,OOO. Temple Houston, son of Gen. Sam Houston, who shot and killed Judge Jennings in a saloon fight at Woodward, O. T., has been sentenced to pay a fine of S3OO and costs. Jacob Lorillard, brother of Pierre Lorillard, was quietly married in London to Mrs. Huyshe. They will spend their honeymoon in Paris. The most desperate battle of the Cuban rebellion was fought at Yacta ford, on the Canto river. The Cuban loss was 100 killed and 300 wounded, while the Spanish fatalities reached fully 200, a like number having been wounded.

New York milkmen have formed a trust with a capital of $15,000,000, and have applied for incorporation under the laws of New Jersey. Three Gloucester, Mass., fishing schooners, having eighteen men on board, are ten weeks overdue and it is feared they •re lost.