Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]
Overflow of News.
E. H. Jones has been convicted of murder at Georgetown, O. The Children's Endowment Association assigned at Minneapolis. The assets are $175,0J0; liabilities unknown. Sherman Jewett Williams, a high school student,* committed suicide at Buffalo, illness making him temporarily insane. James P. Galvin, the base ball pitcher, was arrested at Cleveland, charged with stealing a diamond pin and gold watch. Friends of Prof. S. C. Shortledge, who killed his wife at Medea, Pa., ask that a commission inquire into his sanity. James Dugan, arrested op suspicion at St. Louis, prov«s to be one of three mefi who killed a man in Hennapin County, Minn. R. J. Hosper. accused of poisoning his wife, has been placed on trial at Joliette, Quo. The case is complex and sensational. New York City officials will ask the Legislature to permit the issue of $1,000,000 in bonds, the proceeds to be used in employing 1,200 men to work on the parks.
