Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — The News Aftermath. [ARTICLE]

The News Aftermath.

Mrs. Emmoxs Blaine has given SI,OOO for a new public library at Augusta, Me. Br the explosion of a locomotive on the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad at Palos, Ala., Engineer Harry Monroe and Fireman William Church were instantly killed. A heavily charged wire at the Westinghouse electric w rks, Pittsburg, Pa., killed Edward Wood, a nephew or General Manager Wood, of the Pennsylvania Company. At Onadarka, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Commiss on finished its labors and agreed to give the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes $2,0; o,uoo in return lor lands relinquished. Half a square, between Sacramento and Clay streets, in the heart of Chinatown, San Francisco, was burned. Many butcher shops, cigar manufactories and opium joints were destroyed. Loss, $70,000. The Empire Express attained a speed of ninety miles per hour over the worsi grade on the New York Central system. The run from Rochester to Buffalo, sixty-nine miles, was made in seventyone minutes.