Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — Brieflets. [ARTICLE]

Brieflets.

Dr. John Lord, historian and lecturer, died at his home at Stamford, Conn. Gold is beginning to go out again,sl,581,123 having been withdrawn from the National Treasury in a day. Logan Clendenning, the first patient treated by Kansas City physicians with anti-toxine, has entirely recovered. Consul Gilford at Basle, Switzerland, warns Swiss not to return to their native country expecting to get work, for the field of labor is overcrowded. Henry Whilt, J. D. Boster, and George Adams were arrested at Huntington, W. Va., on the charge of robbing George B. Sanford, a farmer, of $1,500. Remnants of the commonweal army in the State of Washington will march to Olympia and demand an appropriation for public highway improvements. Mrs. P. A. Hearst, widow of the Senator, will establish a free library and reading-room at Lead, S. D., for employes of the Homestake gold mine. Emperor William has presented gold watches, with his portrait and monogram, to two Bedouin sheiks, in recognition of their services to several German archaeologists. Albert Daugherty pleaded guilty to forgery at Muncie, Ind., and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. He forged the name of Milton Hamilton to two notes of SIOO each. Herman Shafer has been expelled from the Southern Indiana M. E. conference and the church at Columbus, Ind., for renting a store-room to a man who will sell liquor under a government licenseTtmd is a druggist. George D. Sherwin, a well-known attorney of Kansas City, Mo., died from the effects of a self-administered dose of morphine, taken to alleviate suffering due to asthma. J. W. 'Wheeler, of Elizabeth. N. J., has been appointed receiver of the J. W. Fowler Car Company of Elizabethport. The assets are about $128,000; liabilities, $130,000. Morris Loenshal, one of the best known pension agents in Northern Ohio, was indicted by the United States grand jury at Toledo for using fraudulent affidavits to secure pensions. The head of a match flying off in the hands of a boy caused a fire in W. W. P. McConnell’s department store at Mankato, Minn., resulting in damage of $40,000; insurance, $15,000. John It. Tait, until a few weeks ago the paying teller of the Chemical National Bank, was arrested at his home.in Mount Kisco, N. Y.. on an indictment charging him with embezzling $15,000 of the bank’s funds. For refusing to furnish the grand jury with names in connection with a scandal involving society women at Salt Lake City Chief Pratt of the jxflice department and Detective Sheets nnd Furguson wen committed to custody.