Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Gov. Bushnell of Ohio is suffering from diabetes and his physician says In's recovery is doubtful. Senator White of California has been elected chairman of the Democratic congressional committee. August Nickerson, a sailor, died at Tort Townsend, Wash., after living eleven days with a broken neck. Eugene Burt, the Austin, Tex., wife and child murderer, hns been granted a stay of execution until March. Signor Anton Casseletti has died at San Diego, Cal., aged 02 years. He had a European reputation as a violinist. At Mobile. Ala., Jefferson, alias Jack Knight, of Pensacola, Pip., was hanged for the murder of Frank Duntzler. Editor E. W. Iloch of Marion, Kan., has refused the postmastership of his town because he would have to work Sunday. Ex-President Cleveland hns purchased a traet of land near Princeton, N. ,J., which he intends to stock for a game preserve. The Women’s Federated Clubs of Missouri voted to establish a traveling library in Missouri and appointed a bonrd of seven members to inaugurate the work. According to n Washington dispatch Lord Salisbury will resign the post of British foreign minister to a younger and more vigorous man, but retain the premiership. Actor Edward J. Rateliffc, under sentence for wife beating at New York, was released on $2,5(H) luff 1, but was immediately rearrested and locked up on a charge of perjury. The Cologne Gazette asserts that according to international law Kino-Chon is German property and an attack upon it would enable Emperor William to declare war without consulting the buudesrath. Charles Lee, colored, the only surviving membqr of n family of six, the others having been murdered by white caps near Vicksburg, Miss., is preparing to sue the State of Mississippi for SIOO,OOO damages. . • Judge Dallas, in the United Stales Circuit Court at .Philadelphia, ordered a nonsuit in the case of Charles 11. Despnux against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for alleged discrimination in rates for carrying oil in 1881, 1882 and 1883. Harris, n small town twenty miles west of Milan, Mo., was visited by a destructive incendiary tire, causing a $50,000 loss. The Harris bank, J. C. England, dry goods, and Carpenter Brothers, general merchandise, were among the losers. Chris. Merry, who has been on trial in Chicago for the' murder of his wife, Pauline, hns been declared guilty by the jury and must die upon the gallows for his crime. James Smith, tried on a charge of lieiug implicated with him, was acquitted. A Camden, N. J.. woman, who was carried out of a religious meeting in what was supposed to be n cataleptic fit, declares she was in a trance, during which she was wafted to the pearly gates, where she beheld Christ, who placed a wreath upon her brow. George Hnrfer and Albert Fisher have been appointed receivers of the Zoological gardens lit Cincinnati, Ohio, upon aplication of the stockholders, who state that there Is a debt of $70,000 and that litigation is threatened which would bring permanent Injury to the property. Captain Annie P. Hughes of the Volunteers of America nnd secretary to Commander Bnllingtou Booth, was sandbagged at Orange, N. J. Erich A. Prisnmn, a former convict, recently discharged from the headquarters stuff, lias been arrested on suspicion. lie is suposed to have mistaken Miss Hughes for her sister, who rejected his attentions. The congregation of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, unanimously declined to unite with its pastor, Dr. John Hall, in requesting the presbytery of New York to dissolve the pnstorul gelations between him sud the chart'll,'