Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Tobias, Neb., Wiley Farris killed his wife and himself with a revolver. Eight prisoners escaped from the jail at St. Joseph, Mo., by way of the sewer-pipe. Texas fever is raging among a herd of cattle owned by the brothers Hughes, near Osborne, Mo. They were recently purl chased at the Kansas City stock-yards, Henry Ten Eyce, a farmer living near Broadhead, Wis., became enraged at his wife and stabbed her three times, inflicting fatal wounds. Ten Evce left the house, and the next day his body was found swinging from the limb of a tree, he having committed suicide. The total loss caused by the fire at Anoka, Minn., is placed at $700,000, and the insurance is about $300,000. The sufferers are not despondent. Many merchants burned out have resumed business. It is felt that if the Washburne Mills are rebuilt all the losses will be made good in two years. Dr. J. J. Woodward, one of the physicians who attended Gen. Garfield during his last illness, died last week at Philadelphia. Hugh J. Jewett has formally tendered his resignation as President of the Erie Road, and John King, Jr., is said to have definitely accepted the position. Thieves entered the residence of Father Mollinger, a Roman Catholic priest, at Allegheny City, Pa. They made off with $2,000 in money and a diamond-mounted chalice valued at $1,500. Qlara Louise Kellogg, who has just returned from a foreign tour, expresses the opinion that Italian opera is doomed, and that Albani is soon to sing in English. The Frewen brothers, nephews of Earl Dufferin, have caused a statement to be sent out from Montreal that they will hereafter ship 1,000,000 Montana cattle annually to England by way of the Canadian Pacific Road, loading three steamships daily at Montreal during the open season of navigation. Locusts have almost ruined the crops of Central Spain. The damage in the Ciudad Real district is estimated at ten million dollars. Mary Clemmer Ames, well known as a newspaper correspondent at Washington, died last week in that city.