Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — Brieflets. [ARTICLE]

Brieflets.

Democrats of the Ninth Michigan District nominated W. T. Evans, for Congress. Clara Rost, aged 6 years, was run over by a trolley car at New York and lost a foot. A rich gold find has been made by a Mexican miner about fifteen miles from Phoenix, Ariz. Dick Goodman, a notorious robber, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at Anderson, Ind. Ex-Postmaster W: D. Smith, of Lamberton, Minn., is found to be SSBB short in his accounts with the Government. Andrew Considine, aged 73 years, one of the oldest settlers of Dubuque, lowa, was thrown from a wagon and killed. James G. Sheridan, who was considered without a peer as a race-track starter, died in New York from apoplexy. Douglas Duce, who was born in 1795 and had lived mder every President of the United State , died at Urbana, Ohio. Charles Johnson, of New York, was arrested at Andersen, Ind., on a charge of forgery, Michael James being tho victim. Freeport (Ill.) temperance people, aroused by the convention of liquor dealers, held a mass meeting to uenoursce the traffic. Louis Young has arrived at Tacoma, Wash., having ridden on a bicycle from Pittsburg, Pa. He was six months making the trip. William Schrader, treasurer of the Liederta el. of Akron, Ohio, was arrested on a cha'ge of embezzling several hundred dollars of the society’s funds.