Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

There are 100 cases of grippe at Weatherly, Pa., a town of 3,000 inhabitants. Charles Collins, wanted for murder and robbery, was arrested at Freeport, Pa. W. J. Foust, assistant postmaster of Thornton, Texas, was arrested for embezzling $750. Richard Fittenreiner, an electric light lineman, was killed by a falling pole at St. Louis. John C. Alton, found dead at Osceola, lowa, is supposed to have been killed by tramps. Martin Finn, a farmer, was waylayed and murdered while going home from Falmouth, Ky. Roy Shubert, a Belmont, La., boy, was blown to pieces by the explosion of a box of dynamite. The village of Brantford, Ont., is under water, owing to a sudden flood in the Grand River. Five whites and nineteen Mexicans have been killed in a race war near Cherrillos, Mexico. Populist members of the House will urge the adoption of a- graduated tax upon all big estates. William Hawley, a burglar, committed suicide in the New Jersey penitentiary at Trenton. FOUR men were probably fatally hurt at Derringer, Pa., in a fight between Austrians and Poles. Farmer Pira, who killed two confidence men at Sioux City, lowa, was wildly cheered on acquittal. Clark Francis, aged 16, of Beatrice, Neb., broke through the ice in Blue River and was drowned. James Collins, of Covington, Ky., kicked a Newfoundland dog, and was so badly bitten that he will die. George Astley, of Springfield, Mo., was shot a,nd killed at Wichita by John Keefe, a farmer, who surrendered. At meetings of the railway employes of the Lehigh Valley system, reports of another strike were emphatically denied. Chauncey H. Andrews, the millionaire railroad, coal, and iron operator, died at Youngstown, Ohio, after a long sickness. Eight convicted White Caps at Jackson, Miss., were pardoned by Governor Stone, who urged them to become good citizens. C. K. Carson, collector of the Oregon Improvement Company, was arrested at San Francisco, accused of embezzling $4, COO. Israel McLish, a prominent Choctaw, was shot and fatally wounded by three assassins near White Chimney Mountain, I. T. Willard P. Holmes, Kansas feity, Mo., president of a suspended bank, was arrested on a warrant charging him with fraud. Farmer Gottholtz, near New Castle, Pa., essayed to come down the chimney as Santa Claus. It took an hour to dig him out.