Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

Receivers have been named for the American Water Works Company of Omaha. Eight persons were killed in a battle between outlaws and officers at Ilan, Mexico. Mrs. Eva M. Blackman has been appointed police commissioner at Topeka, Kas. Judge M, E. Mather, of Decatur, Ala. ? has been arrested on a charge of forging a court order. Brakeman Thompson has been held responsible by a coroner’s jury for the Kingsbury railway disaster. John Anthony, of Kasson, Minn., fatally beat his sister and mother and committed suicide by shooting. The residence of George Kosmatki, near Minot, N. D., burned, and four boys, aged from 8 to 15, perished. William Thode, a wealthy Baltimore _ broker, committed suicide by shooting. He was crazed by liquor. Sioux Indians are again indulging in ghost dances near the Rosebud reservation and settlers are preparing for trouble. Charles G. Long, a prominent jeweler of Columbus, Ohio, has been indicted on sixteen counts for operating a “fence.” The Union Glass Works were closed in Somerville, Me., because the employes will not accept a reduction of 15 per cent. Samuel Parker, an Indianapolis policeman, was killed at a dance by a stone thrown by Billy Reed, a notorious character. . Numerous portions of round-trip tickets of Pennsylvania issue are in tho hands of scalpers. A reduction of rates may follow. Forty-twq new cases of yellow fever are a t Brunswick, Ga. Up to date 399 cases have occurred, with twenty-one de£hs. The Atlantirtron works, the Arthebub iron works, and the wire nail workers at Newcastle, Pa., have reduced wages 10 per cent.