Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Seven prospectors, while trying to cross the Yukon, were drowned. Postmaster Jackßon Clpse, Greenwich, Conn., beaten to death and robbed. Gen. Chas. H. Grosvenor, Ohio, has announced that he is not a candidate for the speakership. Pawnbroker Ben Jacobs, Wheeling, W. Va., robbed of $6,000 worth of diamonds by burglars. Vicious horse attacked Mrs. Edward Cooper and little daughter, Findlay, Ohio. They were badly trampled.