Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — How the World Wags. [ARTICLE]

How the World Wags.

Measles are epidemic at Brazil, Ind. La gbippe has broken out at Fort Dodge, la. Minnesota decides not to hold a State fair this year. Three beers and a sandwich are now sold at St. Louis for 5 cents. Turpie will be renominated for the Senate by Indiana Democrats. Col. W. M. Owen, who served in the Confederate army, died atNew Orleans. Edgar Mills of San Francisco, Is dead. He leaves a fortune of $1,000,000. Frank E. Eames, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., was arrested for embezzling $lO,000. Campatt received the Democratic caucus nomination for Senator from Michigan. A cable car was run down by an engine at St. Louis. One man was severely injured. Dr. Philip Reidel, of East Liverpool, 0., has eloped with Mrs. Hauck, his mother-in-law. Trask <fc Co., the New York stock brokers who failed recently, have resumed business. Joseph F.Barker, a Boston reporter, is missing, and is supposed to have lost his life in the Boston fire. ' Cadet M. K. Johnson, of the Annapolis Academy, charged with hazing, was aoquitted by a court-martial. Ex-Clerk Waldron, of the New Haven, Conn., Board of Public Works, is $4,500 short in his accounxs. Policeman Garver, of Hamilton, Ohio, shot and killed Policeman Scott, of Cincinnati, in a row over an arrest. It is said that the Pope has asked the opinion of all Catholic bishops in the United States on the school question.

P. J. Corbett, father of Pugilist Jim Corbett, is alleged to have squandered $5,040 of an estatte in his hands as guardian. The hair of ex-Treasurer Foerstal, of St. Louis, has turned white under the strain of the embezzlement by and suicide of his son. Simon Goldman, paying teller of the German National Bank in Denver, Col., is missing. It is alleged that his accounts are short SIO,IOO. John Dougherty, head cook in the Trnnsit House at South Omaha, Neb., was assaulted in the hotel hallway by Charles Stewart, the head porter, and stabbed to death. Mrs. Alice A. Minicx, the first woman to graduate from the law department of the Nebraska State University, was admitted to practice in the Federal Court at Lincoln, Neb. J. H. Clark is In Jamestown, N. D., looking for his wife, who eloped, Mr. Clark claims, with their hired man ten years ago. His alleged wife and the hired man have been living under the name of Mr. and Mrs. George Rod*