Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Dr. G. Wiley Broome of St. Louis says that city has “cyclonic neurosis.” Thomas Caffery was shot and fatally wounded by Joseph Byeues during a saloon fight at Tracy, Cal. June 14 has been fixed as the date for the convention in Detroit of the National Association of Labor Commissioners. The executive committee of the National Live Stock Association has decided to hold the next convention in Denver Jan. 23, 1899. The Ewart building, n five-story structure at 11 to 23 Jefferson street, Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The loss will amount to $200,000. An explosion of oil nt Beenville, Ta., destroyed the big cement mill, 4,000 barrels of cement and 300 tons of coal, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Minnie Cushman, a white woman and teacher in the Fort Shaw, Mont., schools, has been clandestinely married to Garrott White, a full-blooded Diegan Indian. At Cincinnati, 0., John Doiyiell.v died in the hospital from the effect of a knockdown blow by Ben Green. Donnelly and a friend had refused to pay for sandwiches at Green's lunch stand. A New York branch of the world-spread society of Hellenes lias been formed in New York. The avowed purpose of the society is to depose the present king and establish n Hellenic republic. Preparations for the revolution are already under way. The Kurds nre devastating Armenian villages in the neighborhood of Busman vilayets, and the Armenians are retaliating, according to a rei>ort from the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The correspondent adds that there is "complete anarchy in the Asiatic provinces of Turkey.” ' John F. Kennedy, a locomotive engineer, twice tried for complicity in train robberies in the famous "Blue Cut,” was thrown from a horse in Kansas City mid seriously Injured. Qn his person were found a disjointed shotgun, n revolver and considerable ammunition. When he fell • man riding with him rode rapidly away. Fearing another robbery had been plan-, ned, extra guards went out on every train that left Kansas City during the night. Martin Thorn, sentenced in New York to be hanged for the murder of William Quldensnppe, has served notice of uppcal to the Court of Appeals. The Canadian Government hns passed an order-in-eounoil renewing the modus vivendi covering fishing rights on the Atlantic coast for another year. The terms are the same as last season. The public prosecutor at Madrid demands a sentence upon Lieut. Gen. WeyJer of two mentis’ imprisonment, i Commercial treaties now being negotiated, by Minister Woodford at Madrid may, It is believed, end the Cuban war. hm— *r-«rsrw' -■«***»,