Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

Two children were killed by the caving in of a dugout home at Enid, O. T. Mrs. John Johnson and her son were killed by lightning at Lawrenceville, Ga. George Draper, President of the Cincinnati Common Council, is violently insane. Joseph Leuvenmark, champion high diver of the world, died at San Francisco. Telegraphers had their inning before the conference to settle Union Pacific labor troubled. Enginemen will follow. Mrs. Cornelia A. Spindler, a widow at Defiance, Ohio, has sued Brice M. Alehouse for $5,000 for breach of promise. Eastern roads hqve announced a rate of a cent a mile for the Grand Army encampment in Pittsburg in September. L. R. McMerrell committed suicide at Shreve, Ohio. He had been Indicted by the grand jury for embezzlement. The Poorman lead mine, in the Coeur d’Alene district, Idaho, has been bought by English capitalists for half a million dollars. Secretary Soott, of the Illinois Board of Health, says there are but thirty cases of small-pox in the State outside of Chicago. The Standard Pottery Company, at East Liverpool, Ohio, will soon commence work on improvements to double the capacity of the plant. ■ Elmer Smith was arrested at Oatesville, Ind., for shooting at Frank Myrick, with whose 14-year-old sister Smith was keeping company. The 2-year-old son of Henry Ward, of Kiowa County, Kansas, was scalded to death by falling into a barrel filled with hot water for scalding a hog. A “shirt-tail parade” was held by the freshmen of Williams College in honor of St. Patrick's Day. They were headed by a band and made a b’g display of fireworks. The general Western headquarters of the American Cereal Company, controlling all large oatmeal mills in the United States, will he removed from Cedar Rapids, la., to Chicago. Henry McDonald, in jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., for pbtaining money under false pretenses, sought to kill himself by using hra head as a battering r»m against the brick walls of the jalL