Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Charles Dunn, at Youngstown, Ohio, has confessed to robbing and burning fo.qr schoolhouses. Near London, Ky., Mat Dezarn was and Luther Davidson wounded during, a family quarrel. Judge O. F. Woodruff, a prominent Illinois jurist, owner of the Waukelata ranch, near Alpena, S. D., is dead. Col. Kline G. Shryock, aged 85 years, died at Rochester, Ind. He was one of the pioneer residents of that place. The Missouri-lowa boundary dispute has been narrowed down to the question of ownership of a strip of land four miles long and 107 feet wide. Four men held up a Baltimore and Ohio freight train, near Chillicothe, Ohiet Conductor John McGraw was shot and dangerously wounded. Hadley was fatally shot at Brazil, Ind., by Huldy Butler while attempting to force his way into the Butlef house to see a daughter. Robert McFarlane, station baggage, master of the Rock Island Railroad r.t Seneca, 111., for many years, was run down by a freight train and instantly killed. Forty-nine valuable Jersey cattle on the stock farm of Alvin Devereaux, neej Deposit, N. Y., which were infected with tuberculosis, were killed by order of the New York State Board of Health. On and after Feb. 1 the St Louis horse and mule market, said to be the largest in the world, will cease to be a St. Louis institution. Practically the entire trade will move to East St. Louis to occupy quarters expressly fitted up for the purpose by the National Stock Yards Company.