Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Miss Helene Scott, a young comic opera singer, who was with the “Princess Bonnie” company, died at Pittsburg. The big Edgar Thomson steel works at Braddock, Pa., have resumed work after a short stoppage. They employ 3,000 men. Whitecaps at Holland Station, Ohio, buried a farmer named Huntsman alive and then dug him up and whipped him unmercifully. Col. Puttie Watkins, of Ballington Booth’s American Volunteers, has been married to E*red staff captain of the same,organization in New York. The youngiman who committed suicide in Toronto at the Queen’s Hotel has been positively identified as Jaeob Dehaan, a Cornell student. He took cyanide of potassium. Thomas Cullen, a trolley repairer of the street railroad company at Cleveland, met a horrible death. He was up on a ladder when he was caught by a live wire, drawn up and instantly killed. A large crowd witnessed his death as he was hanging in the wires. The United States Minister, Mr. Taylor, has declared to the Spanish Government that the United States is most favorably disposed towards Spain, but that, owing to the extent of the United States coast line, she is unable to prevent the departure of filibusters for the island of Cuba. John Daly, who was recently released from Portland prison, after serving several years on conviction of complicity in a dynamite plot, together with his brother, has arrived at Queenstokn. In reply to an address Daly declared that he was not a dynamiter, and that he never believed in dynamite to terrorize the English GovThe dream of his life, he said, was to fight for Ireland like a soldier and a potriot.