Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — BITS OF INFORMATION. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The flying squadron has returned to Hampton Roads. The bulletin issued Friday morning regarding the health of Mr. Gladstone announced that he was holding his ground and was suffering less. William J. Barry, the comedian, died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 48 years. He had been ill of a complication of stomach and liver trouble for some time. The president has decided to give ConsulGeneral Lee the command of the Virginia volunteers In the event that hostilities break out between this country and Spain. At Marlon, 0., Jacob Myers and wife were fatally burned while burning cornstalks. Mrs. Myers’ clothing caught fire. Her husband lost his life trying to save her. The deadlock in the First Kansas congressional district was broken Friday, Congressman Charles Curtie being renominated on the seven hundred and thirtieth ballot. The deal which Involved the transfer of the Willimantic (Conn.) Cotton company to the English syndicate is off for various financial reasons, but chiefly on account of the war outlook the English capitalists are shy of the Investment. Dr. E. T. Tynan, a w ealthy ranch owner of Stanislaus county, Cal., is dead. He achieved a great deal of notoriety six years ago by his remarkable disappearance and the subsequent litigation resulting in the legal declaration that he was dead. The Mount Auburn street railway es Cincinnati has been sold by order of the Court for $278,000 to Charles H. Kllgour, who represented the Cincinnati Consolidated Street Railway oompany. The latter company now owns the entire street railway system of the city. Gov. Wolcott, of Massachusetts, sent a rpessage to the legislature recommending a,n emergency appropriation of $500,000 to increase the efficiency of the state militia. Twenty-five minutes after the time the message had been received the legislature had passed a bill making the appropriation and it had been signed by the governor.