Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Mr. Gladstone is disappointed at the small sale of his edition of “Bishop Butler,” only 2,0G0 copies having been sold. Four men are in jail at Hebron, Neb., charged with robbing twenty banks in Nebraska within the last forty days. John E. Redmond, M. P. for Waterford City, Ireland, and leader of the independent section of the Irish party, is in New York to lecture. A receiver has been appointed .for the Columbian liberty bell at the instance of George Knapp, the custodian, who has a claim of $5,505 against it. James Carter, a prominent member of the Virginia Legislature fell into a fire at Cartersford, Va., from apoplexy. When found his body was burned to a crisp. Adolph Kobitzsch is playing Nemesis on the trail of attaches of the Randall Island Infant Hospital, 5» 7 cw York, to whose neglect and positive cruelty he charges the death of his year-old son, Otto. A legislative inquiry into the workings of, the Raines excise law was begun at New York. ' The 'committee consists of five members of the State Senate, with Mr. Raines, the “father” of the law, chairman. Ayers’ spiritualistic meetings in Bostoij were broken up by a disturbance, and When the lights were turned on the was discovered to be O. L. Connan. the medium, in a state of nudity. *