Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — BREVITIES, [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES,

Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard has tendered his resignation to take effect in June. George It. Davis of Chicago lias purchased 35,000 acres of gold placer ground in Fremont County, Wyoming. Testor & Co., wholesale confectioners of Montreal, have assigned. Assets nearly $70,000; liabilities not stated. A religious “sanctification” meeting at Turtletown, N. C., caused temi>orary insanity among many attendants, Marshall Hailey, one of the leaders, is a maniac and is confined in jail at Murphy. General Manager Bissell of the Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western has resigned, to take effect April 1. This confirms the report that the road Is to chauge hands and bo n part of the Hrice system. It is known in Havana that the body which the Spaniards brought there ns that of Col. ltuiz was that of Cuban guide who accompanied him, and who was also executed as a deserter iu the service of the Spanish army. The grave of Hull is known only to two men. Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley*!>f Kentucky has declined the general secretaryship of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which office he was recently elected, because of opposition to him among members of the society. A delegation of Southern cotton mill men appeared before the Judiciary Committee of the House at Washington to oppose the passage of the Joint resolution proposed by lleprcsontsrtivo Lovering of Massachusetts to authorize Congress to regulate the hours of labor in the different States. The De Lome .note has been officially disavowed by the Spanish Government and the incident Is now.regarded in Washington ns closed. ' Four men, comprising the crew of the barge Excelsior, which foundered on Handkerchief shoal, off Caito Cod, were lost. Bight Honorable Kir James is dead at London, at the age of 78 yeurs. He had held the offlct* of lord of the nijg rniralty, under secretary for India, lord of the treasury and represented Halifax in parliament from to 1805.