Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Miss Anna Fowlery of Bordentown, N. J., was burned to death. ' Mayor Harrison of Chicago has refused all permits for boxing exhibitions. Adam Pfeffer jumped from a train nt South Fork, Pa., and was instantly killed. The Phoenix Fire Assurance Company of London withdraws from Kansas after Jan. 1. Prof. Simon Newcomb has been elected president of the American Mathematical Society. Henry Gehner and Joseph Browneller were asphyxiated at the former's home in Findlay, O. At New York, the American-Jcwish Historical Society has re-elected Oscar S. Strauss president. The report that ex-Gov. Shepherd, formerly of Washington, is dangerously ill in Mexico is denied. British troops have captured Osobri, the last important dervish port between Kassala and Khartoum. Gov. Adams of Colorado has appointed Theron Stevens to succeed Judge Gabbert as district judge at Ouray. Jphn Bergmann, formerly a wealthy resident of Chicago, who lost his money in speculation, committed suicide at New York. The main portions of the St. Charley seminary of Sherbrooke, Quebec,-have been destroyed by fire, entailing u loss of $25,000. William Sorden died from the effects of injuries inflicted by Daniel Patchet in a quarrel over a bottle of whisky at Decliff, O. Gov. Wolcott of Massachusetts hns formally deposited the famous Bradford manuscripts in the State librarian's department. Secretary Gage has received notice that Gen. Wcylcr’s edict prohibiting the export of manufactured tobacco from Cuba is to be repealed. It is asserted that, owing to his insomnia, the medical attendants of Prince Bismarck have advised hiai to abstain from •• all work and excitement for some weeks to come. * Actor Rtuttsof the Stults Theater Company ut Mnnti, Utah, was badly burned, and his wife prolHrbly fatally burned, while preparing colonsl fireworks to lie used in their piny. Kenneth Dunoan, formerly n Methodist minister in Chicago and Kan Francisco, has been returned to the insane asylum at Agnews, Cnl. ( from institution he recently escaped. A negro woman was found dying in nn alley at Kansas City, Mo., within u block of the retail center of the city. She hud been literally hacked to pieces. The woman is believed to be Lillie Johnson, a domestic. It is believed that John Sanders, the driver of a transfer wngon, is the woman's assailant. He hns disappeared. . < Dr. Apostoli, a French physician, claims to have solved the secret of preventing the evil effects which usually follow the application of the X ray, by simply connecting the machine with the ground by a metallic circuit. .