Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

It is believed that'the plague in Honolulu has now rim its course. Prince Henry of Prussia was held tip and robbed by Siamese bandits. The survey of the route for a Pacific cable has been finished by the steamer Nero. The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company has announced a general advance of 5 per cent. Gen. Bravos of Mexico has defeated the Maya Indians in the southern part of that country. Advices from Dawson state that a general exodus to Cape Nome was expected in May and June. The Millar-Osborne spice works and the Moline Plow Company’s warehouse. Denver, Colo., were burned. Loss $150,000. Ed Berlin was found dead on top of a Pullman car at Louisville. Death was caused by his head striking a bridge or tunnel. Young Hollanders are said to be arriving in America, intending to earn enough money to carry them to South Africa to help fight the British. James Detrick, a Californian, is in Bucyrus, Ohio, to purchase great steel wagons and traction engines for use in the desert of northern China iu place of cam els. A jury ift Dallas, Texas, has declared the will of the late Gen. E. A. Mexia of Mexico invalid because of undue influence, Property worth over $1,(MX),000 is affected.

A troop of Boer horsemen who perforin nightly in a German circus have been forbidden that part of their program which represents a victory over (British redcoats. The Abbott-Downing Company of Concord, N. IL, manufacturer of carriages ami wagons, has failed with $200,0(10 lia bilities and $600,000 assets. It was c-s tablished in 1826. The Glasgow (Scotland) Tramway and Street Railway Company has ordered from the Ritter-Conley Company of Pittsburg. Pa.. structural iron and steel plates worth SIOO,OOO. The Chicago postofflee shows a great decrease in the' sale of postage duo stamps since- the rules prohibiting the forwarding of underpaid second and third class matter went into effect. A Kenosha (Wis.) minister sued a couple of well-known young men of the town for $4 each, the fees due him for perfortning the dopble ceremony ofannrringe when the two young men wedded sisters. Italian agents who have been in New York tor a couple of weeks past have concluded arrangements for the <*quipmcnt of several trolley roads in the leading cities of northern Italy.What is said to l»c the first instance of a mother performing the marriage cere niony for her daughter occurred recently in Snn Francisco, when Mrs. Kate Houssmnn united Miss Mary Violet Heussnmn to Felix Drapinski. Mrs. Heussman i< an ordained minister under n State charter issued to the Independent Bible Society, of wh h she is a missionary.