Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

At Findlay, 0., “Butch” McCoy killed his brother, “Red” McCoy. Miss Frances Collier of Lancaster, Ky., will christen the battleship Kentucky. At Columbus, 0., Charles Baldwin stabbed his brother William to death. H. T. Wilson was appointed receiver of property owned by Col. A. L. Conger at Akron, O. Miss Marie Lawrence eloped from Warren, 0., to Pittsburg with Oliver Remalia, a widower. At Clarksburg, W. Va., lightning struck the gas company’s plant. Four towns are in darkness as a result. J. G. Schriever, traffic manager of the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific Railway, is dead at New York. The pioneer fruit firm of Luke G. Srezovich at San Francisco, Cal., has suspended. The total indebtedness is $30,000; assets unknown. Jacob Tome, the millionaire philanthropist and founder of the Jacob Tome Institute, died at Port Deposit, Md., after a brief illness of pneumonia. At Canea, Island of Crete, the German flag was hauled down and the German marines who have been doing duty ashore embarked on board the German battleship Oldenburg. At Paris, the minister for the colonies, M. Lebon, has refused the petition of Mme. Dreyfus, wife of Captain Dreyfus, to share the latter’s imprisonment on Devil's Island. > Walter Sanger Pullman, one of the twin sons of the late George M. Pullman, the palace car magnate, was married on Wednesday to Miss Louise Lander M est at San Francisco. The bride is an heiress. A semi-official note issued in Madrid, declares that Spain will not accept a report that the Maine disaster was due to an external explosion and that any demand for indemnity based thereon will be indignantly repelled. A negro boy was lynched at Marcella, Ark. He was accused of stealing S2O from the cash drawer of a store. The mob strung him up three times in an effort to make him confess, and finally left him on the ground in a dying condition. The bodies of “Bill” Serugsby and “Jim” Newlin, cowboys in the employ of “Bar X” ranch, were found on the prairie west of the ranch house, near Beaver City, O. T. A bullet was in Scrugsby’s forehead and Newlin had been shot above the heart. The revolvers of both were found with one chaml>er each emptied. Everything indicates that they had a disagreement about something and fought a duel to death. France has formulated the following demand: That China shall not cede any portion of the four provinces, Kwang Tung. Kwang Si, Yun Nan and Kwei Chau; that the railway from Tung Chau Tong (on the northern frontier) shall be extended via I’ase, Siam, into the Yun Nan province, and that a coaling station be granted at Ixn Chau Fu in the Hen Chan peninsula, north of Han Nan. Thus far China declines to comply with any of these demands. J. 12. Davenport, district passenger agent of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad, commonly known as the Clover Leaf, at St. Louis, has received word from Receiver Peirce that two of the finest steamers on the lakes had been purchased and would be used in rhe travel between Toledo and the summer resorts of the north. The Nebraska Supreme -Court has granted a rehearing in the Bartley case, and argument will be made at the next sitting of the court, April 5. Bartley was convicted of embezzling State funds and is undec sentence of twenty years. Gov. Stephens of Missouri has been appointed a member of the national Maine monument committee, to solicit funds for the erection of a monument to the sailors who lost their lives by the explosion in Havana harbor. He snys he is satisfied Missouri will not be behind in making liberal contributions to the general fund.