Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1905 — Brief News Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief News Items.

The Hamburg Vitrified Brick works at West Hamburg, Pa., were destroyed by fire, the loss being $56,000. Five double blocks of houses belonging to the Reading Coal and Iron Company were burned at Yatesville, Pa. Two American young women have been etpellod from Prussia for less majesty. They talked about the Kaiser. The Japanese budget estimates the total expenditures at $515,000,000. Of this $400,000,000 b the outcome of the war. The new statue of Camille Desmoulins. recently unveiled in Paris, shows the orc tor dressed in garments that did not come into fashion until after hi* head dropped into the basket. It ha* been removed for alteration*. Milwaukee leather men are stirred up over the alleged manipulation of the hide market by the packers and are demanding relief in the shape of a removal of the duty on hide*. Creditor* of the Colonial Brass Company of Cleveland. Ohio, petitioned the United States District Court to have the concern declared bankrupt. The 'labilities are said to be $N5,000. James S. Hawkins, an insurance man, has been arrested at Charlottesville, Va., charged with blackmailing R. D. Ballantine, a young millionaire of Newark. N. J., who committed suicide.