Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Henri Rochefort says CasinirPerier’s Presidency means civil war. Mr. Gladstone will not again stand for election to the House of Commons. The University of Michigan conferred degrees on 689 at its commencement. President Cleveland has signed the bill idaking Labor Day a national holiday. William Davis Gallagher, poet and journalist, died at Louisville, xiy., aged 80. Mormons have secured land and money to establish a col ege at Lamoai, lowa. At New York, Michael Gessner, a tailor, shot and killed Annie Sauter aDd himself. The si le of the steamer Puritan, of the Full River Line, was lipped open in a collision. Mrs. Sallie Chapman GordonLaw, known in the South as “the mother of the confederacy, ” died at Memphis. By means of the Morse telegraph code messages have been sent by an electric flashlight from Sandy Hook to New York City.