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

NEWS NUGGETS.

Rev. Dr. John Hall has withdrawn his resignation as pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at New York. Gus J. Heege, the actor, known the country over as “Yon Yonson,” died at New York. He was 36 years of age. Secretary Sands of the American legation at Seoul, Corea, was recently assaulted by a gang of Japanese coolies at Nagasaki. At Newark, Ohio, Roger McGinley, while working in the Baltimore and Ohio ash pits, had both arms cut off as he reached over the track with his shovel. M. F. Tanner, a cowboy, was lynched by miners in Valdez rasa.. Alaska. He murdered A. Call of Worthington, Minn., and William A. Lee of Massachusetts. William M. A. Vaughn, a pioneer, is dead at Kansas City, Mo. He was born at Spottsylvania Court House. Va., in 1829, and came West when 17 years of age. H. C. Frick has purchased in Faris for SIOO,OOO the painting “Blessing the Bread.” It will be presented to the art gallery of the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg. Russia’s foreign minister has notified Turkey that it is the Czar's unalterable determipation that Prince George of Greece shall be nominated for Governor of Crete.

The Tennessee Horticultural Society * reports that the severe drought inst summer killed many strawberry plants, and less than half a crop of the fruit will be produced in Tenessee this year. There was a pitched battle between cowboys and cattle thieves west of Glasgow, Mont., near the Dakota line. One of the thieves is reported dead and the cowboys are in pursuit of the other members of the gang, who have crossed into Dakota. The Cherokee-Lnnyon Spelter Company, with offices in St. Louis, Mo., received a telegram announcing the destruction by fire of its large plant at Itjch Hill, Mo, The plant was one of the twelve spelters operated by this company in Missouri aud Eastern Kansas. It was valued at between $125,000 and $150,000, and had an output of sixty tons of spelter per day. I President Richard Gilchrist, of the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange, who testified before the United States Court at Omaha that the exchange is a monopoly, explained how a rule had been i altered for the purpose of freezing out a • combination of stock growers and farmers who had sought to avoid the rule*'of the exchange aud handle their own busij ness on a co-operative plan. The reclaiming plant of tlic United States Rubber Comiwny nt Naugatuck, Conn., was burned, entailing a loss of $700,000. Archbishop Knin Ims signified his intention of serving ns one of the vice-presi-dents of the meeting to receive Gen. Booth of the Salvation army ou his visit to St. Louis. The consolidation of the biscuit manufacturing companies has been effected. Iu t New Jersey the National Biscuit ComJ pany was incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000,000. preferred and $30,900,000 common.

The street railway lines in Dallas, Texas, recently acquired by O. 11. Alexandes and E. A. Kills have been reorganized nnder a new charter and capitalised at $1,000,000. • Samuel Webster, At Earl, Hawkins' County, Tenn., accidentally decapitated his atepaou while chopping wood. .