Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

The old Opera House at Winnebago City, Minn., fell. The damage is $16,000. Isaac L. Hill was chosen as the ReSublican candidate for Mayor of Des loines, lowa. At the lowa State University a class of thirty-one students in the dental department was graduated. Pugilist Corbett in an interview says he will quit the arena after his fight with Peter Jackson. Students of a homeopathic medical college in Cleveland, Ohio, are involved in a row which is growing serious. Eighty thousand persons took part in the trade unionist demonstration in London against the House of Lords. Michael Davitt, in a speech, said be is convinced Lord Roseberry is as firm a home ruler as any Gladstonean. Police at Paterson, N. J., fear that striking silk weavers will attack the county jail and release the ringleaders. It has been decided by the Y. M. C. A. of the University ol Illinois to erect a hall at Champaign costing $20,000. Indiana saloon men have combined to defeat J udges Daily and Coffey of the Supreme Court at the election this fall. Three Poles were killed in No 4 mine of the Kingston Cial Compapy at Edwardsville, Pa., by a t-unaway car. Twelve masked men attacked four non-union sailors at San Pedro, Cal., and beat them nearly to death with clubs. In the vicinity of Spencer, I. T., four lives were destroyed by a cyclone. The bodies were blown a quarter of a mile. Mrs. Martin and daughter and Miss Nellie McCarthy were drowned in San Francisco Bay by the capsizing of a yacht. At Norwood, Minn., an elevator containing 6,000 bushels of grain was burned. The loss will aggregate about $25,000. California recruits to Coxey's good roads army threaten to seize a Santa Fe train if free transportation is denied. , Heavy rains in Western Tennessee and Arkansas have washed away the growing crops and wrecked a number of houses. While sitting at the supper table Mrs. John Johnson and her son, of Lawrenceville, Ga., were killed by lightning. Peter Diehm, of Allentown, Pa., distrusted banks and kept his money in his home. Burglars secured 83,000 from him. Z. T. White, serving out a fine of $209 for hanging J. Sterling Morton in effigy at Nebraska City 1 ; has been released. ; Gallons of spoiled beer were turned into the Sandusky River at Tiffin, Ohio, and the fish in the stream became intoxicated. It is stated that Miss Emma Juch, the opera singer, and District Attorney F. A. Wellman, of New Y ork, are to be married. Lightning destroyed a barn at Owensboro, Ky., in which were several fine trdtting horses. The -loss will reach $30,000. It is said that C. P. Huntingdon has secured an option on the panama Railroad. the price being between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. At Columbus. Ohio, George Geschwilm, accused of uxoricide, is said to have confessed to the murder of John M. Ginniver in 1889. The Rhode'lsland Republicans have again nominated D. .Russell Brown as their candidate for Governor; The selection was unanimous. During a fight over a timber contract at Ladoga, Ind., James Starke struck John Tinkenbroker with a club and fatally injured him.