Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Told In a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told In a Few Lines.

Tho Philadelphia cricket team'will tour England three months, beginning May 18, 1890. They will play twelve matches. John Woodward attempted suicide at Keosauqua, lowa. The knife was dull and at the sight of blood he lost his nerve and called for help. Elmer Hoiling, tho confidential man of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company of Duluth, Minn., was arrested on a charge of embezzlement. A medal of honor has been awarded to Wesley J. Powers, late of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Yoiunteers, for distinguished gallantry in* action at Oostenaula River, Georgia, April 3, 1803. Mrs. G. W. Billings, of Ligonier, In<L, was found lying unconscious on the grave of her mother. She had attempted suicide by placing a cloth saturated with chloroform over her face and wrapping a shawl about her head, but will recover. Freight traffic mahagers of all but four of the railroads which had a membership in the Western trunk line committee met in St. Louis to make an effort to revive and reorganize that committee. Owing to the absence of the four representatives nothing was done. Now it appears that even the Texas, a second-class battle-ship, cannot be docked at New York without waiting for a big tide. Tnis has caused some speculation among naval officers as to what would occur If the ship met with an accident at sea and came into port in a sinking conditio -