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

NEWS NUGGETS.

Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross, has arrived at Havana. The Union Beet and Sugar Company will erect a $500,000 beet sugar factory at Santa Mar iff, Cal. At St. Lotfis, Mo., Isaac B. Potter has been re-elected president of the League of American Wheelmen. Richard Burton of Hartford, Conn., has been offered the chair of English literature in the University of Minnesota. Morris Ablitzky, his wife and sevea children narrowly escaped suffocation by coal gas at their home in Cleveland, O. Rev. D. J. M. Buckley, editor of the New York Christian Advocate, was made seriously ill by canned corn at Pittsburg, Fa. J. F. Ivumber of Toledo, 0., representing an English syndicate, has secured an option on the Stangkuebler Brewing and Multing Company’s plant at Sandusky, O. John Wilson, city marshal of Nowata, Kan., was killed by Thomas Dwyer, a whisky iieddler, and the latter died soon after from wounds received during the encounter. An application for a receiver for the Rocky Mountain Oil Company has been made in the Federal court at Denver through a complaint filed by the Central National Bank of Cleveland, O. The steamer Tess sailed from Vancouver, B. C., for the north. She carries 100 passengers and 877 sacks of bacon, being part of the provisions sent by the United States, and which was allowed to go through Canadian territory duty free. The question of the national sovereign ty to which Clipperton Island belongs was presented to Judge Sea well in Snn Francisiu in a oaae on trial before him of Captain Perunen, the discoverer of the island, against the Oceanic Phosphate Company, to whom he sold it. Mrs. George Gould created a sensation at the Drexel ball at New York by wearing the Emperor of China’s crown. Thin costly gem was purchased by Mr. Gould at the close of the recent war between Japan and China' nnd is said to be the most expensive crown that any society leader in the United States possesses. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange have censured “Deacon” S. V. White for bis peculiar methods of advertising. Sir William Dawson, formerly principal of McGill University and one of th* greatest geologists in the world, is very ill nt Montreal, his left side being almost paralyzed. Rev. W. D. Rockwell has brought suit for $35,000 damages for libel .against Chancellor James R. Day of Syracuse University nnd Dt. James M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate of New York.

From 300 to 400 reindeer above the requirements of the United States Government' having been purchased, but unpaid for, by Lient. D. 11. DeVose, U. S, A., to be used by the Ynkon relief expeditions, are detained at Christiania until the lieutenant furnishes security to, the amount of 30,000 crowns. • - .