Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Frank C. Weed, an insurance agent of Kansas City, Mo., is missing and foul play is feared. The first estimate of population of the consolidated city of Greater New York made by the Board of Health gives a total of 3,4118,809. . The New York Assembly has passed a resolution censuring United States Senator Murphy because he Voted for the Teller resolution. Humors are current in Rio Janeiro that foreigners, probably British, have occupied a small port of the State of Amazonas, near British Guiana. The American Line steamship St. Paul, which has been in dock at Newport News undergoing her usual spring overhauling, has sailed for New York. Nassau Chumbers, a seven-story business building on Nassau and Ann streets, New York, was completely destroyed by fire. The loss will reach $500,000. The building was owned by Levi P. Morton. Senor Juan L. Cuestas, the president of Uruguay ad interim, has executed his threatened coup d’etut, lias issued a decree dissolving the assembly and has formed a junta, with himself as provisional governor. Count Inouye, Japanese minister of finance, is reported to have in view the rnisiug of a loan in the United States of from 100,000.000 to 150,000,000 yen through the instrumentality of Mr. Duu, ex-Ualted States minister. The Government will make application in the United States Court in St. Louis for the postponement of the Kansas Pacific sale. It will nlso ask for leave to take up the first mortgages of the eastern and middle divisions and for the appointment of a receiver. It is believed tliat C. W. Sterling, under arrest in Mnttnwnn, N. J., for passing Worthless cheeks, is C. W. Thomns, who is wanted in lowa for criminal assault and in Illinois for theft, robbery and forgery. Thomns, alias Sterling, works G. A. It. and Sons of Veterans and other secret societies. The passenger steamer Mnrhclln, bound from Hull, England for Hamburg, was sunk by collision with the bow of the British warship Galatea in Hull Bonds. All the passengers and crew were saved. The Galatea wns run nground near flic entrance to Alexandria dock at Hull. The Mnrbelln Was a steel screw steamer. She registered 983 tons. The Galatea is built of steel and bus a displacement of 5,000 tons. An explosion of •chemicals in a San Fraudsco, Cal., photograph gallery caused a loss of $25,000 to adjoining property. At Denver, the Colormjp board of arbitration ha* rendered its decision on the question! in dispute between the miners and operators of the northern Colorado district. The board found in favor of the striking miners in every particular. Secretary Hester of New Orleans estimates the world’s visible supply of cotton at 4,400,510 bales, against 4,403,114 last week and 3,942,758 Jast year. Of the former amount 4,179,510 bales are Ameriicn cotton.