Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

There is an epidemic of smallpox at Saltville. Va. The application for a receiver for the Cincinnati Tribune was denied.. Mrs. Lydia Young has died in Ogle County, 111., aged 93 years. She never saw a train of cars. Wm. Evans, who swindled several St. Louis merchants, has been arrested In Liverpool. A tax of eight cents a pound on leaf tobacco in broken packages is asked, by the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association. Prairie fires are causing heavy loss in Oklahoma. The population of Toronto, Ont., as fixed by a police census, is 183,914- — a gain of 22,000 over that of two years ago. With a cry of “Down with the rich!" G. A. Booth, a New York crank, emptied a revolver at diners in Delmonico’s. Four brothers named Selph have been arrested for wrecking trains near Houston, Texas. They were tracked by bloodhounds. Mad infatuation for an alleged Russian prince has caused the incarceration of Mrs. H. M. Coudrey, of St Lopis, in an asylum.