Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Brieflets. [ARTICLE]

Brieflets.

Natural gas has been discovered at Brinkley, Tenn. The find Is thought to be rich Fire at Newton, Kan., damaged the Richardson general merchandise stock SIO,OOO. Col. Davila, who captured Nulla, has committed suicide in Comayagua, Honduras. Dick Tobman, a negro desperado, was shot to death by a posse near Grenada, Miss. Boston capitalists have formed a $lO,000,000 company to control the gas interests in New York. A grand jury at Bangor, Me., has indicted l etween £OO and 300 persons for illegal sale of liquor. A general snowstorm prevailed in Western Texas, Southern New Mexico and Northern Mexico. It is stated that Mgr. Satolli will make New York his headquarters instead of AVashington. The 6upreme Court of Mississippi has affirmed the death sentences of Ben McCoy and J. Terry, of the Copiah County gang of negro robbers and murderers.