Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Frenchmen are alarmed to find that there is a sharp decline in the thrift of the republic. Incandescent lights started a blaze in Omaha, Neb., which did about $300,000 worth of damage. Going to the defense of his mother, deaf and dumb James Thompson killed his father at Colupibus, Ga. Mr. Bland introduced in the House a bill providing for the coinage of silver bullion in the treasury. Mrs. Louisa R. Kent, widow of a Colonel in the war of 1812, died at Chicago. She was 94 years old.