Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Telegraphic Clicks. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Clicks.

A cloudburst ocourrod near Wichita, Kan. Several small towns were inundated. Gen. F. W. Butterfield, of Kansas City, died at Excelsior Springs, Kan., of chronto diabetes. In a quarrel at leadville, Col., over 10 cents, William Miles killed George Schlnn with a razor. The Florence and Cripp’e Creek Railroad, which has been tied up by washouts, is running again. The steamer City of Madison struck a dike In the Ohio river and sank. Her passengers were rescued. Dr. J. M. H. Brown, a Chicago phyeiolan, was drowned in Madison Lake, Blue Earth County, Minn. Capt. Simmer has been reprimanded for causing the damage to the new cruiser Columbia on her trial trip. Mibb Marion Crane has brought action for $25,003 damages for assault against Dentist Adolph Maisner at New York. Henry F. Batchelor, ex-President ot the Stookgrowars’ Bank at Helena* Mont., was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for embezzlement. A bio orowd and a brass band welcomed Coxey, of commonweal fame, on his return to Massillon, Ohia He proposes to make a lecture tour. WrLLiXM Cammack, who was stabbed at Poughkespsie, N. Y., by Ferraro Adamaro, a Spanish medical student, is dead, and Adamaro is a fugitive. A freight train on the Cleveland & St Louis Road jumped the track near Batesvilio, Ind., and Tom Haley and Michael Cunningham, tramps,.were killed. The Navy Department has accepted the proposition of the Duouque Iron Worts people to have the torpedo boat Ericsson delivered at New York Instead of Pensaoola. The second annual meeting of the Lutheran Young Men's Association of the Synodical Conference of Missions met at Fort Wayne, Ind. The session was devoted to routine work. A Stranger tried to cash a forged draft for S6OO at the First National Bank, of Lebanon, Ind. Payment was refused and the man escaped ’before the attempted fraud waediscovered. Goodwin & Swift, railroad contractors and promoters at New York, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. The cause of the failure was inability to meet obligations. The liabilities are estimated at $500,000 to $750,000. A SENSATIONAL story of a plan to assassinate members of the State pr s<jr Vard of Minnesota came to light at -raul Tbe would-be assassin was Murderer Michael Brennan, who recently escaped and was later recaptured at New Orleans. When the prison board visited Stillwater recently, Brer,nan tried to secure an interview to air alleged grievances, but hits actions were so Suspicious that be was searched and a sharp-pointed knife made from a table-knife was found in his possession; He admitted his intention to etao the commissioners.