Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — Overflow of News. [ARTICLE]

Overflow of News.

Prof. Jones, of Portage la Prairie, was frozen to death in a snow storm. Dr. O’Reilly, of Detroit, has been summoned to Paris to testify in the Parnell fund contest. George Miller, a New York sa-loon-keeper, is under arrest charged with poisoning his wife. Fire wiped out the village of Money Point, Va., causing a loss of $300,000. Only six houses are left. By the explosion of a paraffine lamp, in a London dwelling-house five persons were burned to death. Milt Johnson was murdered atJoliet on the Chicago canal. He is the tenth victim in two weeks. Lillian Willis killed her father at Homer, Ga., in defense of her mother, and was acquitted by a jury. R. C. Brickel has been appointed Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, vice Stone, deceased. Rev. James G. Ryan, a pioneer Catholic priest, of Nebraska, died very suddenly at his residence in Omaha. Countess DeCalyo was found in the street at New York violently insane. Alcoholism caused the attack. London papers profess to be much mystified by Cleveland’s action in establishing a naval station at Honolulu. W. S. Ferrell, a wealthy West Virginia land owner, was shot and killed by one of tue notorious Riddle brothers. It is said that Mexico is endeavoring to secure an international monetary conference to settle the fate of silver. Emma Carlson was arrested at St. Paul charged with robbing Richard McGovern at Tacoma, Wash., of SB,OOO.