Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

P. H. Brown, a banker of Portland, Me., is dead. Lady Henry Somerset sailed for England on the Teutonic. Col. R. D. Frayser, banker and lawyer of Memphis, Tenn., is dead. Nathan Strauss, a New York merchant, committed suicide by shooting. W. S. Routh, of Fergus Falls, Minn., is under arrest on a charge of bigamy. In ten years Bo ten has erected 17,920 new buildings at a cost of $116,603,159. The failure of J. Jacolucci, the Italian banker of New York, was due to leases at poker. Geo. Baker was found murdered at Browning, Mo. Five bullets had been fired into his body. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the order of the A. .O. U. W. was celebrated at Independence, Kas. C. H. CONWELL, a cattle man, shot and killed C. H. Creed in a quarrel over a deer hide near De Beque, Col. Fully a third of the corporations of Illinois have failed to make the affidavit required by the anti-trust law. John Gannon’s residence at Pittsburg was destroyed by fire and two children, aged 4 and 9 years, perished. In a freight wreck at Harrisburg, Pa., four tramps were crushed to death. They were riding in a box car. London discount rates rose, owing to a scare over the Indian loan and the shipment of gold to America. Naval officers are inclined to think Admiral Stanton was warranted in saluting Admiral Mello at Rio. W. J. Keeley, a New York diamond broker, is under arrest, charged with stealing S9OO worth of diamonds. Fire at Willamette, Tenn., destroyed the breeding stables of J. B. Ewing, and twenty horses were burned. H. G. Gray was arrested in Philadelphia, and will be taken to Chicago to answer to a charge of bigamy. Owing to the prevalence of smallfox the schools of Muncie, Ind., will remain closed by order of the Council. Capt. H. H Siverd was murdered at Winfield, Kas., while arresting a man charged with running a “joint.” Mr . J. N. Lawson, who was caught in the big prairie fire at North Enid, O. T., died in great agony at Kremlin. The banking house of Pedro Martin & Sons, at the City of Mexico, has failed. The liabilities are $1,100,000. O. H. Brockway, in jail at Lincoln, Neb., charged with wife-murder, attempted suicide by poison. Prompt medical attendance saved his life. C. P. Huntington says that there is no truth in the report that the Morgan Steamship Company will sell the steamer El Rio to the Brazilian Government. Richard Tate, the Kentucky State Treasurer who absconded with $700,000 six years ago, has been arrested at Yuma, Ari. A reward of $25,000 was offered for his arrest.