Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Mrs. S. F. Hall was burned to death in a prairie fire near Chandler, Ok. Wheat and pasturage at Emporia, Kan., received a much-needed heavy rain. . August Heilbrong, a wealthy hardware merchant of San Francisco, is dead. Three Portland, Ore., officials have been indicted for failing to file semiannual leports. Figures in the hands of mint officers indicate that the year’s gold production will be $145,000,000. John Sturgeon, the defaulting City Clerk of Bucyrus, 0., has been found guilty of embezzlement. Denver was left in partial darkness by the strike of the electric light employes against a reduction. Charges are made that a combination is being made to bottle up the Atlanta and West Point Road. Ramberger, the murderer of the seven Kreiders at Cando, N. D., coolly pleaded guilty to the crime. Indiana black coal operators have been in secret conference at Brazil with a view to forming a pool. Cashier F. L. Langan, of the defunct Lima, 0., National Bank, has been indicted for embezzlement.

Nine buildings, including the opera house and six stores, burned at Starkville, Miss., with a loss of $75,000. The judgment against Wilson Howard to be hanged Dec. 29 for murder, was affirmed at Jefferson City, Mo. George H. Cutter, at Meadville, Pa., fatally shot John McAvoy, of Buffalo, N. Y., an alleged burglar. Permanent Republican headquarters will be established in Washington, D. C., with Joseph Manley in charge. Lord Somerset and party were lost in the Canadian Rockies while hunting, and lived for two weeks on horse meat. A barrel which contained 200 Eounds of dynamite was found buried y hunters on Grand Island, in Niagara River. The plant of the Ames-Bonner Company, brush manufacturers, at Toledo, 0., has been attached by the Sheriff for debt. Hf.nry D. Purcel was elected president of the Michigan State Detective Association at a meeting held at. Kalamazoo. Secretary Hayes, of the Knights of Labor, says he will defeat Master Workman Powdorly or wreck the order. St. Paul, Minn., Aldermen passed an anti-pool-room ordinance which also operates against progressive euchre games. Directors of the Northern Pacific met in New York and resolved to request the resignation of Receiver Oakes. An east-bound Great Northern passenger train was wrecked at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Four passengers were injured. 1 John Barker, a wealthy citizen of Brazil, Ind., borrowed a razor of a neighbor and cut his throat, dying instantly. Attempt was made to assassinate W. O. Mackey, near Orrville, Ohio, by one Smith, a tramp. Mackey was wounded. There is a movement on foot among the bondholders of the Kamas Pacific to try and get Russell Sage removed as trustee ana to appoint two new trustees.