Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Southern Railway and Steamship Association lines have decided not to cut rates. A child of Mrs. Annie Seeley, who was being taken to a New York free dispensary, died in a street car. Charles L. Walters, a well-known musi-. cian, was admitted to the city hospital at Louisville, Ky., a hopeless wreck from alcoholism. George Traver, a Chicago dentist, was found dead in a ravine in Mexico. It is believed he was murdered and robbed by, his native servants. In a Cleveland court-room Henry Du Lawrence, an attorney, administered a severe horsewhipping to F. B. Calhoun, also a lawyer and notary public. Continuous rains have ruined the rice, crops in many parts of Japan and a famine is feared. Many lives have already, bjen lost nnd the damage done is enormous. 1