Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Told in a Few Dines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Dines.

Ira Marlatt, known as the demon of the Ohio State prison, attacked Warden Coffin and four guards with a knife. Citizens of Alexis, 111., attempted to blow up an illegal whisky joint with dynamite and shook the whole town. Ernest Engel, the German statistician, is dead at Berlin. He was born at Dresden in 1821 and became director of the Bureau of Statistics in 18(50 and retired in 1882. A club of Cuban sympathizers is being organized at Butte, Mont., to join the im surgents in January. Capt. Bordeaux is the organizer and nearly 200 names are on the list. Achille Tomasi, who has been a musical director for years, and has managed a number of opera companies, was adjudged of unsound mind by a sheriff’s jury in the Supreme Court at New York. During forty-eight hours the criminal element of St. Louis ran the entire gamut of crimes prohibited by the statutes. I ifty of the mechanics employed by Moran Bros., shipbuilders, of Seattle, Wash., are on a strike and will leave on the next steamer for San Fra •'cisco. The men have been employed on two steam steel vessels the Morans are building for the Government. It is reported that Prince Ernst of Windisch-Graetz, a lieutenant in the regular artillery, with a physician named Meade, was attacked at Vizgavona in the interior of Corsica, where he was traveling for his health. The Prince had with him much money and pany Valuables.