Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

At Glenville, Ohio, Carl Tonquietz is under arrest on suspicion of having caused the death of his infant child by starvation. Patrick Grant, father of Robert Grant, the novelist, a successful merchant at Boston, Mass., died at the age of Sli years. Rhode Island’s Grand Army men will erect a monument to the Roman Catholic soldiers of the Stale who fell in the civil jwar. •Tames A. Jordan, indicted at Grand Rapids for making false affidavits on mileage and expenses as pension examiner, has disappeared. The New York Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of Bat Shea for the murder of Robert Ross at the Troy spring elections of 1894. Floods in the Agua Fria and Gila Rivers have caused serious breaks in the bridges of the Santa Fe Railroad and Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. Why does the bloomer girl still persist in currying her purse in her hand? She hasn’t yet learned one of the principal advantages of bifurated externals. Near Twohig Station, Texas, ,T. Shaw, a ranchman, two Mexican men and, a Mexican child were shot dead by thieves who had stolen a yearling steer from Shaw. Two men who tried to work the “threecard monte” game on Benjamin Wilson, a well-to-do farmer living near Peru, Ind., were driven off at the point of a revolver. At Jasper, Ind., Andrew Cumings was fined for breaking the-leg of John Burton while trying to separate the latter and his wife, who were engaged in a family fight. George B. Holmes and Ella May Ferris eloped from Lexington, Ky., and were married by Magistrate Hause at Jeffersonville, Ind. The bride was a pupil of Hampton College. Richard W. Cardwell, bookkeeper of the State Bank of Virginia at Richmond, has been indicted for making false entries and allowing Samuel B. Nelson to overdraw his account $20,000. An old negro, convicted in the United States Court at Fort Smith. Ark., of stealing horses, said he had been a slave of President AndrOw Jackson ahd that he was born at the Hermitage eighty-six years ago. Evalina Bliss, a wealthy lady, died at New York, and immediately after the funeral the daughter of the dead woman, Mrs. Alice Fleming, was arrested at the Colonial Hotel on the charge that she murdered her mother by poison.