Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Good Citizenship League of Wichita, Kan., has taken steps to start a daily paper. Plows are being operated by electricity in Germany more cheaply than they could be by steam. Twenty-two prisoners were injured by a falling bridge in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M. Farley. The murder was the result of a game of cards. The proprietor of a family hotel in New York, who was arrested by Roosevelt’s minions, is going to test the excise law. The largest stockholder in the new bank at Guatemala, it is stated, is President Barrios, who is reported to have $250,000 invested in it. Two precocious burglars, May and Helen PeteVson, aged 11 and 7 years respectively, were arrested at Denver and a houseful of plunder recovered. The work of the assistant attorney general’s office of the Interior Department !s about a year behind in the laud cases to be decided. There are about 1,700 sendiiur.