Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

_ The Eastern Indiana Dental Association closed its sixth annual meeting: at Elwood. Dr. C. S. Wilson was elected president. An unknown young woman from Chicago, accompanied by her mother, visited the penitentiary at Joliet, 111., and was married to a convict. First District Democrats of Indiana adopted resolutions denouncing Hill, Brice and Gorman as “Benedict Arnolds of the Democrats. ” William Stifflek was awarded $5,000 damages at Muncie, Ind., for the loss of an eye while working at the Common Sense Engine Works. Investigation shows that farmers ot the Northwest have abandoned wheat as their only crop. The decrease this year will be “5 per cent. . Two Burlington freight trains collided at Galesburg, 111., wrecking an engine and several cars. Engineer Rodecker wa s seriously hurt. Dr. Charles Winn and Joseph Sparks are under ar est at Neosho, Mo., on suspicion of being the men who robbed the Southwest City Bank. The Sioux City Traction Company, with a capital stock, of $1,000,000, succeeds the street railway company in the operation of the forty miles of road. The authorities at Paterson, N. J., have information regarding a factory for the manufacture of dynamite bomb}. Several anarchists will be arrested. Miss Lee Jones, daughter of a Texas banker, won a piano valued at SI,OOO in a contest at Hardin College, Mexico, Mo. She was one of nineteen contestants. At Rochester. N. Y., F. L. Dow committed suicide by taking piison. He was a heavy stockholder in the Minneapolis Hosiery Association. A company has been organized at Dubuque, la., to operate a coal mine in Cook County, Wyo. The vein is said to be one of the largest ever discovered in the West. Lord Rosebery offered to John .Burns, M. P., the labor leader, a position in the Government when Mr. Gladstone resigned and again when Mr. Mundella resigned. Mr. Burns declined on both occasions to accept the office. Members of a prominent New York family found a supposed dead son serving a sentence in an Ohio penitentiary under an assumed name. Attorneys Fay and Gest, ot Portland,Ore., obtained a judgment against James A. Blair, Joseph Wharton, and Alexander Brown, millionaire bondholders of the Oregon Pacific Road, for $4?,0J0 for professional services. A battle has been fought near Lake Nyassa between the British forces and slavers. Nakamira, chief of the slavers, attacked a British post, Fort Maguire, at the head of 2,000 warriors. J. Edwards, in command of 203 troops, defended the fort. The natives sustained a crushing defeat.