Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — How the World Wags. [ARTICLE]

How the World Wags.

Miss Louise Ebtling committed ■ ilcide at Sedalia, Mo., by hanging. Philip Graver, a wealthy citizen of Allegheny City, Pa., committed suicide by ehooting. Tilman McGillvm was found murdered at Homer, Ind. Five bullets had entered his body. By raising 875,000, Yankton College has secured the $25,000 gift of D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago. The Canadian Pacific Is shut out of St. Paul by the refusal of the Great Northern to honor its tickets. Hiram Bowling, aged 76, and partially deaf, was killed by the limited mail at Van Wert, Ohio.

Two trainmen were Injured in a tcolllsion between a mixed train and a wild engine at Norwalk, Conn. In a row at Indian Creek, Ky., Sol Osborn, a desperado, used a rifle, and at one shot killed Joe Short and Jim Mullins. Louise Dabrosky, aged 6, fired her father’s barn at Bay City, Mich., while playing with matches, and was burned to death. The Pope’s encyclical on the school question has been received by Cardinal Gibbons. Its contents are awaited with interest by the clergy. C. W. Mosher, ex-presldent of the wrecked Capital National Bank of Lincoln, Neb., pleaded guilty to falsifying the records and books. Through an error of government surveyors, a strip of Texas land embracing 75,000 acres was included within the boundaries of Oklahoma. ‘An attempt of Kansas Farmers’ Alliances to regulate wages of farm hands was frustrated by threats of prosecution under the anti-trust law. As A result of a quarrel of long standing over a line fence, William Kuykendall, a Missouri farmer, killed W. H. Smith and then shot himself.

Mayor Bowe, of Fredericksburg, Va.. has extended an invitation to the Society of the Army of the Potomac to hold their reunion next year in that city. A mob at Sioux City had nearly lynched John Olmar when he was rescued by the police. He had forcibly entered many dwellings and acted indecently. The suicide of Franklin B. Daniels, of the Boston wholesale clothing firm of Daniels & Smith, precipitated the failure of the concern. The liabilities are $150,000. The Cerneau Northern Jurisdiction Masonic litigation pending for some time in the Ohio Supreme Court has been dropped, the seven Cerneau Masons who were pushing it asking that it be dismissed.