Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Statue of Oliver Cromwell was unveiled in London by workmen. in the river, New York. Was a passenger on the wrecked ferryboat Chicago. James Meabon, 22, Titusville, Pa., dragged his gun over a log. He is dead. Mrs. Harriet A. Fox, mother of Della Fox, the singer, is dead at her home in St. Louis. Mrs. Jane H. Sennatt, aged 65 years, ■nd Mrs. Elizabeth Sarsfield, aged 75, were suffocated by escaping gas at Roxbury, Mass. Ex-County Treasurer John C. Lemmerts of Lockport, N. Y., whose official accounts showed a heavy deficit, was convicted of grand larceny. Thomas Wright was hanged ,at Stephensville, Texas, for the murder of John Adams, whom he believed had caused him to Im sent to the penitentiary.