Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Telegraphic Clicks. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Clicks.

The First National Bank of Hammond, Ind., has suspended. Juan Burger, 13 years old, died at Kokomo, Ind., from cigarette smoking. The W. H. Livingston Company, of Sioux City, dry goods, has assigned. Debts, $45,000. Sharptown, Ind., was visited by a cloudburst which destroyed crops and drowned herds of live stock. Sarah T. Bolton, who wrote “The Union Forever” and “Paddle Your Own Canoe,” died in Indianapolis. Denver’s City Council has appropri. ated $15,000 for the purpose of employing idle men at work on the streets. Gov. Renfrow, of Oklahoma, has ousted the regents of the Agricultural College, charging malfeasance in office. Theophilus Racine, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was thrown against a steel point in his barn floor by restless horses and killed.

The Lebanon, Pa., Trust and Safe Deposit Bank has failed. It has a capital of $50,000. It is believed the suspension is temporary. The Nebraska Wesleyan University, at Lincoln, has a new Chancellor, Dr. Isaac Crook, late President of the University of the Pacific. . Archbishop Redwood, of Welling ton, New Zealand, who will attend the Catholic Congress at Chicago, has arrived at San Francisco.^ There is a piratical craft cruising in Long Island Sound, and for some tune past the crew aboard of her have been robbing vessels, stripping yachts and committing all sorts of depredations ai farm-houses and cottages along the shore. Employes of the Cincinnati and Bedford Railroad tried to tunnel under the Evansville and Richmond Road ai Bedford, Ind., because the latter would not grant permission to cross their tracks. The hole was filled by the opposing road and litigation will ensue.