Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

All silver mines in Chili will probably be closed. Warrants have been issued for $16,000,000 of pensions. James Lamar, a negro, was hanged at Darien, Ga., for murder. Charles W. Drayton has assumed charge of the New York Posrtofflce. In a drunken quarrel at Cincinnati, John Schede stabbed Joseph Lux to death. In a quarrel over a woman at Cincinnati, Alfred Patterson shot Anderson Bixon dead. The electrotyping plant of Ringler & Co., at New York, suffered a damaga of $50,000 by fire. The National Bank of Commerce at Provo, Utah, has suspended. The liabilities aTe $75,000. The several iron mills at Youngstown, Ohio, have been closed, throwing 7,000 persons out of employment. The section men employed along the line of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad have struck for an increase is wages. Consul Leonard, of Shanghai, says Chinese merchants will not boycott American goods on account of the Geary law. » Brakeman C. D. Hull was killed and C. S. Hackelman was seriously injured in a wreck on the Lake Shore Road near Elkhart, Ind. The Cushing and the Stiletto are tc be ordered into torpedo practice foi the entire summer, and will be located at the Government torpedo station.