Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Tho Secretary of War Ims relieved MaJ. Henry J. Nowlan, Seventh Cavalry, from duty at Fort Grant, Arlz., and transferred him to Fort Sheridan, 111. Anson is being held by the Kansas City (Mo.) police, charged with murdering Edward Illston, whose body waH found in a clump of bushes near Topeka. Mrs. Mary Frohmun, aged 70, living eight miles west of Nashville, Tenn., on her farm, was robbed of $1,500 by a masked man. She always cherished a hatred for banks and kept her cash in her, house. Commissioner General Stump, of the Immigration Bureau, says there is no reason to fear an influx of Japanese into tho United States, and denies that the alien contract labor law has been violated by them. Probably the most dramatic scene of the kind ever seen in a Brooklyn church occurred in the Lafayette Avenue Prosbyteriun Church on the occasion of the faroweli sermon of the Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage. At Elwood, Ind., the comb'fhation of local gas companies to prevent the establishing of pumping stations in the gas belt by foreign syndicates has been made effective, and the matter will be taken to court. Miss Bob Tausey Myers, daughter of the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of St. Louis, Ims succeded in marrying the man of her choice, Graham E. Babcock, of Coronado, Cal. • They eloped to Glenwood Springs, Colo. Hugh Woods, thd' best ball player In the Elwood (Ind.) team, in a spirit of bravado, on a wager, ate a handful of gum camphor. He became unconscious in a short time and remained in that condition over five hours. The new woman certainly has very lofty aspirations. Orders have had to be issued by the commanders of United States men-of-war that henceforth women visitors will not be permitted to climb up the rigging to the mastheads. Tho Buckley & Douglas Lumber Company let contracts at Manistee, Mich.; for the largest salt plant in tj»e United States. It will have a capacity of 2,000 barrels a day. Both tho grainer and vacuum pan processes will be used and a warehouse capable of storing 275,000 barrels will be built.

. At Dallas, Texas, it is said all members of the Dallas Artillery Company are to be dismissed from service in disgrace for refusing to turn out as escort to Gov. Culberson at the State fair. The trouble is the sequel to Gov. Culberson’s course in preventing the Corbett-Fitz-siminons fight taking place in Dallas. In the disbarment proceedings brought by J. H. Crist, district attorney of Santa Fe County, N. M., against T. B. Catron, delegate to the Fifty-first Cohgfefc's, and C. A. Spiess, his partner, the Jlew Mexico Supreme Court handed down an opinion dismissing the charges and holding the evidence for the prosecution untrustworthy.