Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Cincinnati baseball players have gone South. Chicago baseball season opens April 29 with Louisville. Arkansas’ Governor will prohibit the McCoy-Bnrley fight. The Young Men’s Investment building at Mankato, Minn., was destroyed by fire. The Nicaraguan Canal Commission estimates that the cost of the work will be $100,000,000. Negotiations are in progress for a combination of hard rubber manufacturers of the United States. The Ohio Senate passed the Jones bill to require coal to be weighed before screening, and it is now a law. The measure was urged by the miners of the State. By the bursting of an engine boiler near Brewton, Ala., William Kelso, Andrew J. Enright, Arthur Atkins, Peter Thom, as, David Alston and G. W. Thomas, laborers, were killed. Two tons of dynamite were shipped from Cincinnati to Pensacola, Fla. The shipping firm declines to say whether it was shipped on government account or to private dealers. Frank Stadelman and a woman named Emma Stabb, who had deserted her husband at Akron, Ohio, went to Cleveland together uud agreed to commit suicide. The woman died, and Stadelman, whose nerve.failed him, gave himself up to the police. A large steam dry kiln at the Central coal and Cook sawmill at Texarkana, Ark., tumbled in, seriously wounding a number of workmen, two of whom will die. Three others are believed to have been killed outright. The fatally injured are Gos Walton and ltichard Hunting. Japan is said to be ready to seize the Philippine Islands should the Cuban question result in, hostilities between Spain and the United States. The queen regent is reported ns being greatly alarmed lest complications both in Spain aml abroad may / wrest his throne from her son. The Supreme Court of South Dakota has issued a peremptory writ of mandamus removing Insurance Commissioner Kipp from office. A new issue of a counterfeit $2 treasury note discovered by the secret service some time ago has made its appearance. This note bears check letter B and plate number 28. General Manager Metcalfe of the Louisville and Nashville Itailway has announced to a committee of conductors, engineers and firemen of that system that the 10 per cent cut In their wages made in 1893 would be restored in a few mouths. It is rumored at Paris that Major Comte Ferdinand Wnlsin Esterhszy has chaNenged Col. Plcquart to a duel, as a result of the latter’s evidence in the recent trial of M. Zola, and of his repeated attempts to convict Comte Esterhazy of the crime for which Dreyfus is now undergoing imorlsonment.