Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1901 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Merkle, Texas, had a $50,000 fire. Great gold discovery in Lincoln County, Georgia. An unknown man shot John Fitzhugh at Dallas. Texas. Two trainmen killed in a wreck ou the M., K. & T.. Fisher, Texas. Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, drank-excessively of tea to reduce her weight and now has insomnia. Twenty thousand Mormons witnessed the funeral ceremonies over the body of Lorenzo Snow, late president of the church. William Foster was killed in n coni mine near Nashville, Mo. The roof caved in upon him. He was 28 years old and unmarried. - Kansas postoffices have been discontinued as follows: Eldon, superseded by rural free delivery from Galena; Frankville, mail to Ness City.