Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Mrs. Minnie F. Payne, of Fort Scott, Kan., has brought suit for divorce against Albert Bigelow Payne, an author and poet. • John Maguire, of Butte, Mont., has discovered records that lead him to believe that the Chinese knew how to use cathode rays centuries ago. The Governor of Missouri granted a stay of execution to Thomas Punshon, who was sentenced to bo hanged in St. Joseph April 3, until May 0. The Union cor works, to be operated on tho co-operative plan, will put up buildings at North St. Louis at once. The capital is $50,000 and the president is H. W. Rocklagc. James 0. Barber, of Richmond, Va., secretary and treasurer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, died in a sanitarium at Indianapolis of a tumor on the bruin. A bridge across San Francisco from San Quentin to Oakland is contemplated. It is a magnificent project and was made public by Col. Lyman Bridges on behalf of the Terminal company. The Northern Pacific Railroad will run two transcontinental trains instead of one. The time between Tacoma and St. Paul will be shortened eight hours by putting on a fast mail train.

At a meeting of the passenger agents of the roads affected it was decided to abolirii the Cincinnati and St. Louis Passenger Association and to merge it into the Central Passenger Committee of Chicago. Terms of office of thirty-four preridential postmasters will expire during April. Appointments to several of these have already been announced. The largest office in the list is Harrisburg, Pa. Twin sisters and twin brothers were married at Burbank, O. Rev. Nathaniel Lewis performed the ceremony that made Irene V. Repp wife of Vernon R. Stair, and Idena V. Repp wife of Vertal R Stair. Williams Hills Yale, aged 85, died at Meriden, Conn., of blood poisoning. He was the.pioneer manufacturer of tinned ware in New England. He retired from business several years ago, having amassed a fortune. E. Wilding and J. F. Gilmore, representing a London syndicate, are negotiating for the purchase of the Chino ranch in southern California. The ranch consists of 40,000 acres and the price offered is said to be $2,000,000. Four steamers arrived at New York having on board 3,484 immigrants. The Massilia, from Marseilles and Naples, brought 1,183; the Patria, from Hamburg, 961; La Bretagne, from Havre, 690, and the Bonn, from Bremen, 650. When the remains of Michael Hart, who was' killed at Hammond, Ind., by an Erie passenger train, were sent to his home at Newburg, Conn., the entire force of the Illinois Steel Company followed the body to the station. / Gov. L. C. Hughes was assaulted on the street by P. J. Clark, correspondent at Phoenix for the Denver Times. Clark, who tnld criticised the Governor’s official Conduct, claims that the executive was instrumental in securing his (Clark’s) discharge fropq another paper.