Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

In 1889 there were in the United States 21,425 passenger and 1,005,116 freight cars. Several passengers were injured by the wrecking of a Missouri Pacific accommodation train near Eldorado, Kan. The St. Louis street railways have passed into the New York syndicate that purchased the system some time ago. Republicans and Populists combined and organized the Montana Assembly, electing Matthews, a Populist, Speaker. The first officer of the steamer Glengoil was swept overboard and drowned on the voyage between Newport News and Liverpool. Another decision has been rendered at New Orleans against the petition for the probating of the will of Myra Clark Gaines. . Mrs. Warren, wife of the Rev. Dr. W. F. Warren, died at Cambridge, Mass. She was the editor of the Heathen’s Woman Friend. The residence of Dr. Bussery, at Clarksville, Tenn., was robbed of $lO,000 and burned. The building and contents were worth $15,000. Mrs. Bates, who was divorced at I Smet, S. D., on New Year’s Eve, w« married the day following to ex-Mayo. Ames, of Minneapolis. The charge of murder against Miss Clara King, who accidentally stabbed and killed Albert McCoy in acting a charade, was dismissed in San Francisco. Gov. Barber, of Wyoming, relinquished the executive office to John E. Osborne, who took the office some months ago, and the State which has had two governors for six weeks, has now only the customary number. As Father Lawler was celebrating mass at St. Thomas Aquinas’ Church, at Pittsburg, Thomas Quinlan attempted to commit a murderous assault upon him. Quinlan used a hatchet. He was overpowered before the priest was injured. A dispatch from St. Paul imputing to the committee of investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad a desire to effect a change in the Presidency of the company has been repudiated by members of the committee. The Decatur, Chesapeake <fc New Orleans Railroad has been sold under a decree of the Federal courts, Judge Granville Haws, of New York, on behalf of the reorganization committee, bid the road in for SIOO,OOO.