Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Henry Roberts, a young farmer, was digging a well near Brady, Tex., when a large iron drill dropped upon him, penetrated his body and killed him. M. W. Teneycke, a Cotton Belt brake* man, was killed and his body horribly mangled by the cars at Altheimer, Ark, His body was shipped to relatives in Illinois. Samuel M. Bonds, a prominent farmer, living four miles w-est of Paris, Mo., dropped dead. He was a candidate for judge from the western district of Monroe County. During the recent blizzard there was a fall of temperature of 70 degrees in Nebraska, and 62 degrees in Colorado in twelve hours, and in portions of Kansas and Nebraska the wind reached a velocity of 75 miles an hour. In New Zealand, the scheme for old-age pensions is in an advanced stage. A bill has passed through all its stages in the lower house, which sets aside £IBO,OOO per annum of the ordinary public revenue, as a provision for the aged poor. Southern California has a “left-handed” club, with a membership of nearly 2,000, scattered through all the principal towns. To be left-handed is the only qualification necessary for membership. Walter Thrash and J. T. Reed are in jail at Dallas, Tex., charged with torturing two old persons in New Mexico by burning their feet to compel them to give up their money. The old couple were placed on chairs and made to hold their feet over a fire until, frantic with pain, they divulged the hiding place of their savings. An enterprising Bostonian, taking advantage of the crusade against the gypsy moth in Massachusetts, has made a comfortable living for several weeks by collecting money from people for inspection of their trees. He represented himself as a State official, and carefully searched for the moths at 50c a tree. ?be police are trying to find W»,