Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Telegraphic Clicks. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Clicks.

Sixteen cases of cholera*are reported in Galicia. David D. Ldm, a well-known anarchist, died at New York. Mayor Ecstis, of Minneapolis, vetoed the eight-hour ordinance. Secretary Morton paid a visit to the fleet in Hampton Roads. M. De Gandolle, the noted botanist, died at Geneva, Switzerland. Otto Anderson and Oscar Swenson were asphyxiated by gas at Boston. An earthquake with an eruption of yellow mud has occurred in Servia. The Republican National Committee meets at Louisville, Ky., on May 10. Ambassador Bayard will sail for his post in England in about a n onth. Ex-Gov. McGrath, of South Carolina, died at Charleston, aged 80 years. The Rhode Island Legislature is a tie, and twenty-six seats remain to be filled. Scores of farm buildings were blown down near Fort Wayne during a wind storm. On July 1 South Carolina will operate all places in the State for the sale of liquor. Timothy Hopkins has been awarded Mrs. Hopkins-Searles’ $1,000,003 California estate. Si verb earthquake shocks have been experienced a few miles south of Albuquerque, N. M. A case of typhus fever developed in the West Sixty-eighth street police station at New York. Socialists made a demonstration in Brussels during the celebration of King Leopold’s birthday. The daily receipts at the Postoffice Department of applications for postoffices amount to z,o:>o. The Lilly block at Waterbury, C%nn., was damaged $70,030 by fire. Occupants suffered SBO,OOO loss. Eleven Mexican cattle thieves were pursued by a posse from Mon Clova, Mex., and were captured. Peter White, who was identified with the development of the Irish woolen trade, died in Lublin. Supt. William Samuels was burned to death in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by a gas pocket igniting. The New York Assembly has passed a bill abolishing electrocution and all forms of capital punishment. A. R. Sutton, who forged whisky warehouse receipts at Louisville, was held to trial in $35,000 bonds. Ming Lok, a New York Chinaman, sues Chu Sue Blain, a brother Celestial, for $35,000 damages for slander. The Southern California fruit exhibit for the World’s Fair was demolished in a wreck near Albuquerque, N. M. The case of Dr. Briggs will come up at the meeting of the Presbyterian Assembly at Washington on May 3.

M. Patenotbe, the French Embassador at Washington, has leased the Blaine residence on Dupont Circle. J, Jeffeoats, a farmer of Pickens, Miss., was lynched by a mob after he had confessed to having murdered his wife. A registered letter containing $4,000 was stolen from the mail between New York and Babylon, L. I. There is no clue to the thief. Jeremiah O’Rottrke, of New Jersey, has been appointed supervising architect of the Treasury Department, vice J. W. Edbrooke, resigned. * M. Tocet, the French aeronaut, and his two companions, who’fell into the sea in a balloon voyage from Brussels, were rescued by a fishing smack. John Moriabity, of Anderson, Ind., suspected Col. Struts of being one of a party whb stoned his house. Meeting Struts, Moriarity drew a pistol and shot the Colonel dead. Constable Mclntyre, of Louisville, Col., received a notice, on which was marked a skull and crossbones, warning him to leave the city or he would be dealt severely with. The Governor of French Cochin China telegraphs that the French troops took possession of Knone Island, in the Mekong Biver. The Siamese withdrew without offering any resistance. An unknown sneak thief stole from a suite of rooms in the Windsor Hotel, New York, while tho occupants were at dinner, jewelry and cash said to represent at least 85.000. Mrs. Wm. H. Burnet and daughter, of Chicago, are the victims. Prince Ferdinand of Bu.garia is devoting his time and money to preparations for maintaining a magnifloent court in Sofia after his marriage to PaincesS Marie Louise, daughter of the Duke of Parma. He has bought 700 gala liveries for lackeys, several gala coaches, eighty horses, and many valuable paintings.