Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1897 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Cardinal Richard of Paris has forbidden the priests of his diocese to attend dramatic performances. The Russian Academy has elected as honorary members Lord Kelvin and Dr. Simon Newcomb of Washington. A Bombay dispatch to the London Daily Mail reports that all of the leading journals there describe the famine as the most widespread of the present century. It is the genera! opinion that the Viceroy errs in refusing English aid. The Argentine Republic Senate has adopted a scheme providing for the issuance of $10,000,000 of cednlas for tho purpose of advancing loans and promoting agriculture. Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick, pastor of the Second Universalist Church of Rochester, N. Y., who was arrested charged with impersonating an officer, has been unanimously acquitted by jury trial. An autopsy on the body of William H. Sinclair, the railway promoter and contractor of New York and Galveston, who died suddenly at Rochester, N. Y., shows that his death was caused by apoplexy. In the matter of summer tourist rates, the trans-Missouri committee of the Western Passenger Association found that the question could not be settled until the committees had been presented with a detailed plan of ticket which shall reduce the opportunities of scalping to a minimum. The miners in the Robertsdale and Woodvale coal districts of Pennsylvania have struck because one of the mine drivers was not given ltis regular mule team to drive. The Woodvale miners quit through sympathy. The strike occurred just as work had commenced on a large order that would have kept them steadily employed