Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — How the World Wags. [ARTICLE]

How the World Wags.

A pension revision board of twentythree members has been appointed. The B. Goodman Company suspenders, failed at New York lor $63,000. The debts of Barr Co., the New York coffee merchants who failed recently, are $1,000,C00. The new coast-defense vessel Monterey has been ordered from San Francisco to Puget Sound. Susie Mcßeth, for twenty years a missionary among the Nez Perces Indians, died in Idaho. Fifty-seven waiter's in John Wan flmaker's restaurant at Philadelphia are on a strike for better food. The Bradstreet-Thurber furniture store at Minneapolis was destroyed by fire, with a loss of $160,000. Cholera Is spreading among the Arabs of Turkey. Twenty deaths a day are reported at Bassbrah. Owing to the corn famine, 6.317,000 bushels ot corn f>em the United States have been shipped into Mexico. W. W. Johnson <fc Co., whose plant is one of the largest in Cincinnati, will withdraw from the Whisky Trust. Russia will raise its Washington mission ’to an embassy, and probably send some older diplomate as ambassador. The Gould pleasure party has returned to New York from its three weeks’ trip to the World’s Fair and to the West and Southwest Reports from several cities of Asiatic Turkey say that the cholera has appeared in many districts and is spreading rapidly.