Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — How the World Wags. [ARTICLE]

How the World Wags.

Martin Coyne, a hotel bootblack of Boston, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the death of a New York uncle. A mimic battle between British marines and sailors at Halifax, N. S., was witnessed by 10*000 persons. Horace Hill, arrested for the murder of Anna Wiese at Marshaltown, la., was discharged from custody. A San Francisco company has contracted with Chinese brokers for 30,000 coolies, who will be sent to Central and South America. The storehouse and hackle department of the cable flax mills at Schaghticoke, N. Y., were burned. Loss, $60,000: well insured. Mortgages aggregating $629,000, given by W. C. and N. T. Depauw and the Depauw Plate Glass Company, were recorded at Louisville. C. H. Devore, an oil well driller, was robbed at Parkersburg, W. Va,, and placed on a railway track. One hand was cut off by a train. A city council investigating ' committee severely arraigned officials of the South Boston House of Correction for abuse of the prisoners.