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

NEWS NUGGETS.

Princeton is to have a boat crew next year. Broker Henry Michaels ate 100 oysters and won a wager of S3O at New York. The Equitable and East River. Gas Companies at New York have consolidated. The young Countess Castellane (nee Gould) has given birth to a boy, her second son. John J. Stevenson of New York has been elected president of the Geological Society of America. As a result of the Union Pacific reorganization the offices of the company will be removed from Boston to New York. Dr. Wiley Meyer of New York has discovered a new anaesthetic, consisting of chloroform, sulphuric ether and petrolic ether. Mrs. Ethel Mary McCallum has been granted a divorce at Fargo, N. D., from William C. McCallum, formerly of Kimberly, South Africa. President Callaway of the Lake Shore Railroad believes the long-distance telephone is responsible for the decrease in railway passenger earnings. Gertrude Coghlan, the young actress, has decided to apply for a divorce from Reginald Caiheron, to whom she was secretly married two years ago. Alexander R. Shepherd, formerly Governor of the District of Columbia, has been stricken with apoplexy at Batopilas, Mexico, and is dangerously ill. Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the American dentist who died in Paris, left a fortune of $4,000,000. His brother, who is left only SIO,OOO, will contest the will. A special session of the Tennessee Legislature has been called to meet Jan. 7. A successor to the late Senator Isham G. Harris will be elected, and important legislation is pending. Gov. Adams of Colorado hns refused to honor the New York requisition for Editor William H. Griffith of Leadville, indicted for larceny on complaint of Broker Richard J. Bolles. The Atlantic Coast Line will add to its system an important line by securing the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad. The property is paying, it is stated, 5 per cent on a $5,000,000 capitalization. Adlai E. Stevenson, former Vice-Presi-dent of the United States, has accepted the position of Western counsel of the North American Trust Company of New York, with a membership in the board of directors. S. P. Lock, a prominent bnsincss man of Memphis, Tenn., secured a berth in a Pullman sleeper to go to Jasper, Ala. Subsequently the trainmen found his remains on a trestle. The supposition is that Lock walked in his sleep and fell off. A story is current in Wall street of a possible amalgamation of Metropolitan, Manhattan and Third avenue lines. The proposition is said to have the backing of the entire Philadelphia Traction Company, including Elkins, Widener, Yerkes, Dolan and others. Tbe will of Charles Coutoit, filed for probnte at New York, after bequests to relatives and friends, leaves the residue of trie estate, valued nt $1,500,000, to bo divided among the general theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the domestic and foreign missionary society of the Protestant Episcopal Church and a large number of New York, institutions. • The Chicago and Northwestern Railway filed in the register of deeds offi«iat Council Bluffs, lowa, a mortgage for $165,000,000 in favor of the United States Trust Company of New York. It covers all tbe property of the company a*d is given for the purpose of extlngnishing outstanding bonds amounting to $114,• 302,000. Joseph Hopkins, the negrs who murdered two white farmers o Christinas day at Glcndore, n small inland town near Minter City, Mias., wun lynched by a posse nt daylight the other morning oq the James plantation, near Swan Lake. The Denver owners of some of the undeveloped asphaltum beds on the borders of the Uncompagbre Indian reservation are negotiating with the Title Guarantee and ’frust Company of Chicago with a view to securing money to develop the deposits, said to be worth over $1,000,000,000.