Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — CHOLERA IN COMMONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHOLERA IN COMMONS.

A Charwoman Employed in the House Expires from the Plague. In the House of .Commons Friday afternoon, Mr. Fowler, President of the local board, announced that a charwoman who had been employed in the House died under very suspicious*circumstances. He was not prepared to Bay that it was a case of cholera, but a most careful examination was being made of the body. Mr. Fowler’s announcement created almost a panic among the members and many of them left the House forthwith. It is learned thafc the doctor’s examination leaves scarcely a doubt thpt the woman died of Asiatic eholera. ’Frisco Train Robber Confesses. The leader of the gang that held up the ’Frisco train at Pacific, Mo., on Tuesday night, has confessed. Pennock was arrested on the scene of the robbery, and has since been almost constantly subjected to the “sweater." Under this pressure he is said to have admitted that he led tEe gang. He implicates three others in the crime. Acting on this information, the police arrested Sam Robinson, a railroad brakeman and friend and companion of Pennock. The police are looking for Muncie Ray, an ex-brakeman, and Jim

Pannock’s brother, both of whom were seen with Pennock on the day of the raid. National Banks Resuming Business. The three national banks at Mankato, Minn., reopened their doors Thursday morning, after having been closed a little over a month. The counters were crowded with business men and others anxious to make deposits. During the first hour and a half the Citizens’ National took in $30,000 over the counter, and the First National and Mankato National did quite as well. There were no withdrawals. Aothcr and Son Both Murdered. Near Fairview, Southwest Virginia, Mrs. Wilson Berry was shot and fatally wounded by a neighbor woman, Mrs. John Scott, and young Berry was shot and killed by the Scott woman’s son. Mrs. Scott is a dangerous woman. Some years ago she stabbed her brother to death with a pair of shears. Bow the World Wags. Harrisburg, Pa., firebugs confess to setting fire to eight places within a year, entailing a $30,000 loss. Arrested for misdemeanor at Sedalia, Charles Hill was found to be wanted in Kansas for cattle stealing. William Jackson, colored, aged 20, who assaulted a little girl, was hanged by a mob at South Fork, Ky. Miss Leal, a young Scotch woman, has broken the bank at Monte Carlo. She won $30Q,000 in one hour. The Kansas corn crop is estimated at 200 ; 000,000 bushels, worth $60,000,000. This is the greatest since 1889. Mayor Willard, of Argentine. Kan., may lose his office through a failure to enforce the prohibitory law. Twenty masked men at Selma, Cal., made a raid on the Chinese warehouses. Chinamen claim to have lost $3,000. PiERSE . Lorrillard’s physicians say he must give up the turf, and he will therefore sell hip string of horses. Monon stockholders have agreed to re-clas6ify stock— s3,ooo,ooo preferred and $9,000,000 common will be the form. Arthur Malaby, the stock man of Denison, Tex., was murdered and robbed of S2OO at Durant, I. T. Offi-

cers are in pursuit of the supposed robbers. The Rogers Locomotive Company has issued an order reducing the wages of its 1,200 employes from 5 to 25 per cent. Polish Catholics are at loggerheads with Bishop McGolrick, of Duluth, Minn., who refused to bless a cemetery tract. Speculators have conspired to defraud the government out of the Cherokee Strip land by falsifying the allotments. F. H. Kleekamp, a Fort Wayne attorney, arrested for impersonating a United States marshal, has been released. To carry on speculation Con Weil, of Weil, Dreyfus & Co., Boston, used the firm name upon $350,000 worth of paper. Robert Alexander Lamberton, President of Lehigh University, died suddenly of apoplexy at South Bethlehem, Pa. New evidence damaging to Annie Wagner, accused of poisoning the Koester family at Indianapolis, has been discovered. John Gibhart, a 3-year prisoner from Montgomery County, for forgery, escaped from the State prison at Columbus, Ohio. Mistaking Stephen Shea, a neighboring farmer, for a marauder, Frank Holway shot him in the head, near Sedalia, Mo. Shea may live. In an address, Bishop 1 Matz, of Colorado, accepts the decree of Baltimore

Council, but exhorts parents to send children to parochial schools. Max Kruger, postmaster at Twin Sisters, Tex., has been arrested on a charge of false cancellation of 'stamps to increase his compensation as postmaster. The remains of a man supposed to be John A. Severing, of Philadelphia, Pa., were found in Forest Park, St. Louis. Death had, resulted from a pistol shot Floyd Boughner, a saloonkeeper at Augusta, Ky., has been arrested on the charge of having started a recent fire and destroyed a good portion of the village. He confessed. Dr. Walter S. Webb’s steam yacht Elfrida blew out her boiler near Plattsville, N. Y., badly scalding two of the crew. Peter Mott, chief engineer, is scalded about the face and body and is in a critical condition. A Great Outlay for Coffee. The world annually consumes about 650,000 tons of coffee. Estimating coffee as being worth about S4OO per ton, which is about a gopd average, this represents an outlay of $260,000,000 for this one beverage each year. The typical case of marital confidence, contrasted with infidelity, is that of Belisarius and Antonina. Her infidelities were innumerable; his confidence was unbounded, and as with a spell she ruled him to the last. A CLEAR, long line - of Apollo is an indication of an exceedingly happy disposition, one which will probably bo very success fuL Lincoln nad such a line.

WHERE THE TRAINS MET.