Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — How the World Wags. [ARTICLE]

How the World Wags.

Miss Massi, the actress, wife of Frederick de Belleville, died at New York. Cleveland Democrats elect their Mayor. The City Council is Republican. Prof. Ernest Halsted, of the Indiana Normal School at Columbus, is missing. The bodies of four tramps were found in the ruins of a burn burned at Maywood, N. J. Mbs. Frank Fitzgerald, wife of Surrogate Fitzgerald, of New York, died of pneumonia. Petition for a rehearing in the Chicago lake front case was overruled by the Supreme Court. City Treasurer Strong, of Grand Island, Neb., confesses a $13,001 shortage in his accounts. Joseph Jefferson will rebuild his Buzzard’s Bay cottage. Crow’s Nest, which was destroyed by fire. Secretary Smith does not expect that the Cherokee Strip will be opened to settlement before July 1 next A. Jackson Hyatt, a cousin of the late Samuel J. Randall, died in New York, aged 66. He was a lawyer. A shanty in which two Italians were sleeping burned near Scranton, Pa., and the men were burned to death. Lubin Astell, a printer, perished in a fire at San Francisco, which destroyed a row of frame tenement buildings. Heber Carver, aged 16, was killed near Elwood, Ind., by the explosion of a gun he had made from a piece of gaspipe. Col. E. W. Foster, Indian Agent at Yankton Agencv, S. D., returned to his home and found his wife sitting dead in a chair. ■ Italy, following the example of England and France, will raise its legation at Washington tq the dignity of an embassy. Secretary Carlisle has appointed Oliver P. Tucker, of Covington, Deputy Comptroller of the Currency, vice Nixon, resigned. Ten or twelve buildings burned at Point Arena, Cal. Gus Graves and an unknown man were killed in jumping from windows. A negro desperado named ,Charles Morgan was lynched by a mob of his color at Graham, Va. Morgan murdered a law-abiding negro. A. R. Sutton, under arrest at Louisville for forging whisky certificates, has made an assignment. He places his liabilities at $600,000. Charles Norton and Stella Jones, both colored, were arrested at Manitou, Colo., for stealing $2,550 from J. A. Petri, of Phillipsburg, N. J. The British barkentine Maggie Thompson, from Sagua, for the Delaware breakwater, sixty-two days out, and the Portuguese bark Fara, from Philadelphia for Fara, Portugal, 122 days out, are probably lost with • all hands, numbering twenty-six men.