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

NEWS NUGGETS.

Henry Bulche, formerly of Chicago, committed suicide at Henderson, Minn, j The National. Guard of Missouri will collect money to aid in relieving suffering in Cuba. Traps are patrolling the streets of Prague because of threats of further Czeoh disturbances. New York labor unions have declared war on Chinese laundries and asked the public to boycott them. I). M. Hough & Co., shoe manufactures of Rochester, N. Y., have made an -signment to Granger A. Hollister. ,T. S. Dunham of Chicago was unanimously elected president of the Lake Carriers’ Association in session at Detroit. It is stated that the Government of Chili has decided to undertake the construction of the projected traus-Andean railway. The northern Colorado coal operators have issued an address to striking miners giving their reasons for refusing, to advance wages. Richard Oroker heads the finance committee of Tammany Hall, which means that he is to be the nominal, as well as tin* actual, leader of the organization. A hurricane leveled hundred of derricks in the ojl field of Ohio' and blew down telegraph and telephone-*,poles in many localities. A tremendous rain accompanied the wind and streams overflowed their banks. The village of Alger, in the Scioto marsh, was completely submerged and the residents compelled to vacate or move into the second story of their homes. > * A section of flqor ah the Cudahy packing plant at Omaha. Neb., fell, carrying down several workmen. J. Novak was killed. • „ The ruminations of Charles Pago Tsrvnn of Illinois to be' minister to Brazil and E. 11. Conger of lowa to be minister to China have been confirmed by the Sen* ate. Henry IC. Straight, who was arrested in Jersey City a week ago charged with swindling business people in Wilkcsbnrre and Harrisburg, Pa.,*nnd Baltimore and New York, has escaped from the JerseyCity jail. Sped*] Officer MeNab, assaulted by a gang of tramps on a train near Wilson, Q., shot Albert and John Green, the former fatally. A dead body, identified ns that of Fntb-. I er William Kurtenhnoh, a Catholic priest from Flint Hill, Mo., was taken from the’ river at St. Louis, Mo.