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

News of Minor Note.

Prof. Tasohonberg, the entomologist, is dead at Ilnlle. Secret societies nt Denver are waging war on department stores. M. B. Goodman, clothing merchant of Texarkana, Ark., wns attached by home creditors. Liabilities and assets not stated. i. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed William J. Kenncsaw receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina N. D. Mrd. Mary Shiliito, widow of the late John Shiliito, founder of the great mercantile house in Cincinnati that bears his name, died nfter a long illness from infirmities of old age. The United States ambassador to Great Britain, Col. John liny, nnd family, will sail from Genoa on the North German Lloyd steamship Prins Regent Luhpold for Egypt for a tour up the Nile. The condition of the health of Empress Augusta Victoria bf Germany excites comment. She will go in the spring to some Southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. The Dominion cabinet which has had under consideration the case of Mrs. Olive Sternaman, under sentence to lie hanged at Cayuga. Out., for the murder of her husband, decided to grant her a new trial..