Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1897 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Former Senator Dubois and Senators Cannon and Pettigrew will sail July 2 for China and Japan to study the financial question from the Oriental standpoint. Dr. J. W. Prendergast, former health officer of Cincinnati, recently indicted for attempted blackmail, failed to appear when his case was called for trial and his bond of SI,OOO was declared forfeited. The Argentine congress has granted' the sum of $1,000,000 for the purchase of seed to aid the farmers of Santa Fe, whose crops were destroyed by locusts and unpropitious weather. Harry Singleton, who murdered Officer McCormick two years ago, and Thomas Milton, who murdered his mistress, both condemned murderers, had a desperate fight in jail at Tampa, Fla., and Milton was nearly cut to pieces. The Chinese Government has decided to adopt the free delivery postal system and has honored a Chicagoan with an offer to assume charge.of the undertaking, the same being Fred F. Stoll, formerly general superintendent of city delivery in that city.