Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Brieflets. [ARTICLE]

Brieflets.

All Minneapolis saloons are now closed on Sunday. Three despsrate criminals escaped from jail at Birmingham, Ala. “Jim” Jordan, a notorious outlaw, was killed in Clark County, Ala. William Pierce, a farmer, shot and killed himself at Smith Center, Kas. Astronomer a. E. Douglass, at Flagstaff, Ari., observed the Gale comet. PoNG Sing, a laundryman, was murdered and his place burned at Woodward, Ok. John Atwater, a gambler, committed suicide at Birmingham, Ala, by taking poison. John Rule was killed in Osceola, Mich., by beirg struck by a .-kip while oiling rollers in a mine. With a silver pick President Diaz, has finished the opening from end to end of the seven-mile tunnel out of the Valley of Mexico. Mrs. Mary Finnigan, of BuGalo. committed suicide at Niagara Falls by jumping into the American rapids from Willow Island. John Weller, convicted of murdering Albert Kosanke Dec. 1, was hentenced to life imprisonment at Little Falls, Minn. By the suspension of a bank in St. Joseph, Mo., the City Treasure- is deprived by law of any place to deposit the city funds, A SNEAK-THIEF at Elmwood, Ind., stole a box containing $l,O 0 that was to be used in paying the employes of the Kelly axe works. At the close of chapel services in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus .officers of the institution engaged in a disgraceful fight before the convicts. James H. Parke, a wealthy young man, of Detroit," has disappeared at Chatham, Ont. It is feared bv his friends that he has committed suicide. The schedules in the assignment of C. W. Clark, of South St. Paul, Minn., show assets of S4OO with liabilities of $65,250; contingent liabilities, $52,85J.8L

Mrs. Beecher, widow of Henry Ward Beecher, is said to be very poor, and has given up her beautiful home in Brooklyn for a smaller and cheaper dwelling. W. B. Meroney, George Downing, and a confederate named Wilson were arrested at Hot Springs, Ark., for bunkoing Fred Seltzer, a capitalist of Atlanta, Ga., out of $456. In the case of Fireman Denton Olney against the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company at Dubuque. lowa, the jury in the Federal Court i eturned a verdict of $5,500. Officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and forty policemen prevented a proposed fight oetween a mountain lion and a bear at the Midwinter Fair. While making sdme repairs at the bottom of the elevator shaft of the Hotel Hays, at Warsaw, Ind., John Slate and Frank Stoner were crushed to death and William Shinn, ■fatally injured by having the elevator cage come down on them. "