Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — How the World Wags. [ARTICLE]

How the World Wags.

Jim Corbett, tho pugilist, arrived in New York, was given an ovation, and mado a spooch. C. W. Leach, a prominent mining man, was accidentally asphyxiated at Grass Valley, Cal. Attorney Madigan, of Now Ulm, Minn., will go to the penitentiary for live years for perjury. Matthew R. Ashton was found guilty of killing his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Stone, of Janesville, Wis. Mrs. Lease opened tho campaign at Topeka, Kan., and paid her l aspects to Gov. Lewelling in her speoch. W. J. Holt, Fort Wayne, Ind., was fatally shot by the explosion of a revolver in his overcoat pocket. Joseph Brown, hit on tho head at tho McNamara riot in Kansas CUy, is expected to die from tho wound. One of the Floming brothers, desperadoes, was killed and the other captured by officers near Boggos, W. Va. Bad-debt collectors have been swindling residents in Southern Minnesota, in twenty-one towns secqrjng $30,000. Henry Hurbon, insarie convict in the Columbus, Ohio, prison, is thought to have died from the effects of a beating. Suicides: Bruce Grant at Newton, Ga.; George Helche, at Pittsburg, Pa.; Marshal N. Crawford, at Kansas City. Mills of the American Cereal Company at Akron, Ohio, wore destroyed. The loss is $lo0,000; insurance about half. Clay Shackelford shot and badly wounded his brother Bates at Richmond, Ky., in a quarrel about a euchre party. Stockholder Hatch, of Now York, .declare i Nicaragua Canal funds have “been misappropriated and tho officers overpaid. The 8-year-old son of C. F. Emmett while coasting was run down and killed by an electric motor at St. Joseph, Mo. Wm. Chapman, a Pittsburg," Ran., merchant, was found horribly mutilated in his store, p:esumably tho work of robbers.

While riding a railroad velocipede near Spokane, Wash., Joseph Wall was run down by a Union Pucilio engine and killed. Egypt’s Khedive may bo deposed. Tho succession will lull upon his brother, Prince Meliomat Ali, in all probability. Professor Grogorowitsch will try in a series of explerim. nts to hypnotize Milwaukee subjects by telephone from Chicago. Emperor William’s 36th birthday anniversary was brilliantly observed at Berlin, overshadowing the Bismarck demonstration. Three prominent Cleveland, Ohio, men were arrested by government inspectors for running a fraudulent insurance scheme. John Rhodes, claiming to be a revenue agent, was killed with a club by Samuel Williamson, a negro, in Obion County, Tennessee. Louisiana Supremo Court reversed the decision of the lower court in the Olympic Club case, thus ending prize fighting in the State. During the year the Chicago Citizens’ League prosecuted 701 saloonkeepers for violation of the law. Fir.es and costs were $10,753. By a lamp explosion at Cleveland Samuel Mawby, an aged invalid, was terribly burned, from the effects of which ho died an hour later. Tom and Bryan Leath are suspected of having poisonod James Basket, a wealthy old miser, who died suddenly at Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. A. E. Buohanan, wife of a prominent young dentist of Indianapolis, commenced suit for divorce, alleging desertion on the eighth anniversary of their marriage. John B. Johnson and his son George fought If with shotguns and revolvers while drunk at Los Angeles, Cal.i The father was shot in the breast add the sod la the abdomen.