Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Secret societies at Denver are waging war on department stores. M. B. Goodman, clothing merchant of Texarkana, Ark., was attached by home creditors. Liabilities and assets not stated. i The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed William J. Kennesaw receiver of the First National Bank of Pembina N. D. D. M. Hough & Co., shoe manufacturers at Rochester, N. Y„ have made an assignment to Granger A. Hollister. Liabilities, $38,000; assets, $48,000. The United States ambassador to Great Britain, Col. John Hay, and family, will sail from Genoa on the North German Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent Luitpold for Egypt for a tour up the Nile, The condition of the health of Empress Augusta A ictoria of Germany excites comment. She will go in the spring to some Southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. The Dominion cabinet which has had under consideration the case of Mrs. Olive Sternaman, under sentence to be hanged at Cayuga, Ont., for the murder of her husband, decided to grant her a new trial. At Holbrook, Ariz., wild dogs are causing great loss ,to the ranch owners by killing stock. At Ravenna, 0., while walking with his sweetheart, Cornelius O. Eatingei quarreled with the young woman. Suddenly he pulled a revolver and without a word of warning sent a bullet through his brain, falling dead at his sweetheart's feet. A chattel deed of trust has been filed by M. W. Alexander, proprietor of one ot the oldest retail drug houses in St. Louis, to Charles AV. Wall, treasurer of Meyei Brothers’ Drug Company. Liabilities amount to $17,200. The cause of the failure is not given.