Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Geo. A. Morse, of Minneapolis, has fled. He is a forger to the extent of 820,000. Frank Louz, keeper of a restaurant at Council Bluffs, la., ended his life by shoo ting. Mrs. Conkling, widow of the late Senator Conkling, is critically ill at Utica, N. Y. Ex-Speaker Reed, of Maine, opened the Republican campaign at Cincinnati by a protection speech. James C. Hueston, once manager of the Associated Press, died at New York of cerebral meningitis. At Indianapolis the court decided Iron Hall Receiver Failey acted right in placing the funds at interest. War in the Order of Railway Telegraphers is on again by an Omaha appointment opposed by Chief Ramsay. Mgr. Satolli has reinstated the Rev. Father M. C. Brennan, of Colorado, reversing the decision of Bishop Matz. A CORN knife used in killing the Wrattan family near Washington, Ind., has been found and gives the officers a clew. Reports received at London say that only the terms remain to be settled by which Brazil will become a monarchy. Leon Foltz, a well-known business man of Memphis, Tenn., committed suicide at Whitehall Landing, Ark., by drowning. IN a collision on the Mississippi Valley road at La Place, La., Engineer Halfield and Henry Gordon were seriously injured. John A. King, of Des Moines, was found dead on the railroad track. Indications are that the young man met with foul play. Wreckage from the missing steamer Valkyrie has been picked up on Sable Island. She left Sydney for New York two months ago. James Dolan and Tim Pierce were rescued from a burning mine in the Horseshoe District, Colorado, by a man named Timson.

Officials at Whiting, Ind., are indignant at Fort Wayne railway officers for attempting to suppress facts about the recent wreck. The Commercial Travelers’ Association has decided to establish the proposed Commercial Travelers’ Home at Binghamton, N. Y. The Jura-Simplon Railway Company has contracted with the Brand Company, of Hamburg, and Locher & Co., of Zurich, to cut a tunnel through the Simplon, at a cost of over £4,000,000.