Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

Clem Becker, Mayor and a prominent merchant at Fort Jennings, Ohio, has disappeared. A company is reported to be forming for the purpose of competing with the Diamond Match Company. At Harrisonville, Mo., the hanging of E. B. SopeT has been postponed pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. A census of Youngstown, Ohio, gives Ahe population of Youngstown as 50,133, a gain of 50 per cent, in seven years. At Milan, Mo., the verdict in the trial of Glass for the murder of Roy Fear fixed the penalty as five months in jail und S4OO fine. At Madoc, Ont., John Milligan, aged 21; Lee Milligan, aged 15, and Ethel. Baker, aged 12, were asphyxiated with fumes of charcoal. Three lives were lost iu the Delaware River opposite Burlington, N. J., by the breaking of the ice under a sledding party. Bertha Fields was rescued with great difficulty. * In St. Louis Dnnjel McClelland, aged 43, employed in paint works, committed suicide by putting his head between the ponderous wheels of a machine known ns a putty chaser. The cost of the Cuban war from February, 1805, to the end of 1807 is officially estimated at $240,000,000, besides the arrears due from the Cuban treasury, amounting to $40,000,000. Citizens of Wichita,.Kan., huve invited President McKinley to visit that city duriug the trnnsmisslssippi congress next fall. If ho ncceptH President Diaz of Mexico will be invited to meet him. According to a Paris report J. Pierpont Morgan is engineering a scheme to purchase Cuba for $400,000,000, and has scoured pledges for the full amount from London, Paris and Berlin financial houses.

At Kansas City, Mo., an experimental mission, where the j>oor are to bo served meals at 1 cent a dish and a bed for 5 cents, with a bath thrown in, has Itcen started under the direction of the Church of the Seventh Day Adventists. S. L. Patton Jr. killed himself at Suvnnuah, Go., by takinx laudanum. lie left a note to his parents, who live at Columbia, S. C., defending his suicide and denying that it was a coward's lnsj. resort. He hud twice attempted to kill himself tiefore. Ninety-two quarts of nitro-glycerin, which was to have been used in shooting an oil well in the Klk Fork field, froze, and J. 11. llauks placed it in a steam box to thaw at Slstervllle, W. Va. It exploded and dug n liore ten feet in diameter and ten feet deep. The Constantinople correspondents of the Frankfort Zeitung telegraphs that Russia, France and Groat Hritain have agreed to insist upon the candidature of Prince George of Greece for the governorship of Crete, and are ready to enforce it should the Hiliiau.prove obdurate. The British steamer Majestic has been chartered to carry twenty-two locomotives and a general cargo from Philadelphia to the Finlnnd Government. The locomotives are being shipped by the Baldwin works. At the Baldwin works locomotives are being built for Norway, Japan, Africa and other countries which formerly got them front other places. Marquis Ito, prime minister to Japan, in an interview, said his Government was watching the situation in the East, and was prepared to safeguard Japanese interests by whatever means may be repaired by event*.