Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Brieflets. [ARTICLE]

Brieflets.

James Hogan, of Brooklyn, beat his son nearly to doath. Forest fires are raging near Egg Harbor, N. J., and are causing heavy losses. The whaling bark Abram Barker was wrecked in Behring Sea. The crew was rescued. In a quarrel at Columbus, Ohio, over a game of cards, John Williams was shot dead by Benjamin Fasit. B. F. Gentsch, ex-postmaster of Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide by shooting. Business troubles caused tho act. Gray Whirlwind, the Sioux brave, used tobacco and cayenne popper as a lotion for a sore eye. He lost the sight of the eye. Misses Bember and Halverstone, American missionaries, wore attacked by a mob in Canton, China, and the latter may die. The Attorney General of Indiana will bring suit again-t the Eastern Illinois Ri ad for payment of a $25,000 incorporation fee. Exports of merchandise for the year ending June 30 were $802,111,280, and have been exceeded but twice. Imports were $054,835,873. Giovanno Perna shot into a crowd of merry-makers in a PhiladelDhia garden, wounding twelve. A lyn hing was averted only by a constable's bravery. As the result of a quarrel T. J. Gillespie shot Bernard McNutt, near Columbia. Mo. He then knelt in the road and offered a prayer for his victim's soul. The good government club) of New York City are seeking the aid of the newspapers of the State in the movement to separate the municipal and national elections. Unknown persons, supposed to be strikers, loosed the brake chains on a Big Four freight at Indianapolis and it dashed d wn an incline into a brewing company’s stables. Miss Portia Wellington, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Wellington, a wealthy planter, wai assaulted and murdered by an unknown fiend near her father's home, at Pierson, Tenn. Minnie Palmer, the actress, ie defendant in a suit for divorce. Her husband names Sir William Rose, a rich Fnglishman, as corespondent. The phy icinns and authorities in St. Petersburg are serif udy alarmed by tho spread of the cholera. Elaborate ( anitary precautions have been taken to prevent the further spread of the disease. The safe containing $12,000 stolen from the Great Northern Ex ress Company was found cached in the bed of a mountain creek, about five mile i from Wickes, Mont. The robbers had buried it and made their ■escape on horseback.