Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — TWENTY-ONE GRAVES ROBBED. The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWENTY-ONE GRAVES ROBBED.

The Comic Side of The News

Conditions Developed by Investigation of Cemeteries Near Topeka. Fierce excitement prevails at Topeka, Kan., over tho report that out of thirty graves examined in the Rochester and Catholic Cemeteries twenty-one were found empty. ' John Cuthbert, a reputable man who hns been with a party of ‘then examining the graves of relatives, brings this information, and threats are made against the faculty and students of the medical college. Many of tho medical students have left the city and several of the faculty have not been seen. The college is in control of tho police. The Catholics of tho city have been greatly aroused by the discovery of the bodies at the Kansas Medical College. Rev. Father Hayden has interested himself in tho matter and denounces tho college as a menace to the community. Lawyers have been employed and the college authorities will be proceeded against.

If football games can bring in 540,000 in gato receipts, why don’t Corbett and Fitzsimmons enter college. Nebraska is now making whisky from beets. This is reversing the usual plan of making "beats’’ from whisky. That man Hayward must be thoroughly bad; he will not even confess now that he has ever confessed. South Carolina is a funny State; they actually interfered and prevented a lynching down there the other day. Football may be an eminently proper game, but nervous persons addicted to heart disease would do well to stick to checkers. If Corbett’s new play is to be, as it is advertised, a “triumph of realism,” it will never do to give the star a striking part in it. The Sultan assures the powers that he will “promptly execute reforms.” Lately he has been exeouting Christians too promptly. That Pittsburg drummer whose false teeth were attached'by a Chicago hotelkeeper now eschews dead-beat games of all sorts. The Kansas City Journal says: “Kansas has learned the art of growing white onions." That certainly is a strong point in its favor. There is so much powder lying around loose in Turkey that none of the European powers can smoke with any degree of comfort there. Apparently the European powers have decided to sit down calmly and wait until the Sultan lodges a cherry stone in his vermiform appendix. Lord Dunravep complacently says “the time for proof of my charges is past.” Then the time for making them neve* should have been present.