Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

Seven buildings burnod at Monongah, W. Va. George K. Oglek&Co., carriage dealers at St. Louis, failed for $50,000. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has obtained a $3,030,000 loan in London. Jacob Kriest was burned to death at St. Louis, Mo., in a lodging house fire. Fire destroyed a dozen business houses at Kittanning, Pa., causing $30,000 loss. Fire at Jonesboro. Ark., consumed sixteen buildings and caused a loss of $30,000., Helen Zuchswerdt committed suicide at St. Louis by hanging. She was demented. THE plant of the Williamsport (Pa.) Furniture Company was damaged $25,000 by fire. The window glass plant of Roedfer & Hoffman, at El wood, Ind., burned. Loss, $50,000. Abe Redmond was lynched in Charlotte County, W. Va., for brutally beating a negro. The Phonolite Glas Company, incorporated at Denver with $500,000 capital, will manufacture glass by a new process. The fight against the coal combine in St. Paul has taken shape in the organization of the Minnesota Coal Company. A movement to secure amnesty for political offenders and workingmen convicted of rioting has bean started in F ranee. Instructions have been telegraphed from Washington to all Government mints to discontinue the purchase of silver bullion. On October 29 Philadelphia celebrated the 211th anniversary of the landing of William Penn. In a quarrel over the possession of a ranch in Missoula County, Mont., Tom Cummings was shot dead by Ike Langress. A 7-year-old daughter of W. S. Both well, of Clay City, 111., wa3 burned to death while playing around an openair fire. Illinois Canal Commissioners are moving on Congress to have the Illinois River deepened and the dams removed. By the bursting of a fly-wheel in the Peoria. 111., electric light plant, the main building was wrecked. The damage amounts to SIO,OOO. The barn of George A. Chandler, in the town of Sharon, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. In the debris were found the remains of two men. Women raided a “blind tiger” at Pine Hill, Texas, and with axes broke in the heads of liquor barrels and emptied the whisky into the street. Mrs. Kate C. Blood, who was connected with a St. Louis building association in several official capacities, is under arrest on a charge of fraud.