Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

“Blanche Roosevelt,” the noted singer, composer and author, died in London. Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress, cleared $5,000 on a stock deal in New York. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, the noted jurist and constitutional lawyer, died at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. Three hundred followers of the dead rebel louder Prospero Morales were shot during election riots in Guatemala. The town of Jerome, Ariz., was completely wiped out by fire, entailing a loss of over $1,900,000 in property. Eleven bodies have been recovered, while a score or more are said to be in the ruins or missing. Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Emperor William, is suffering from diphtheria at Berlin. The younger children have been removed, and the empress alone remains at the new palace with the patient. Fire did $50,000 damage in the fivestory brick building at 54 Beekman street, New York, occupied by Leeburger Bros. Fourteen firemen were overcome by the fumes of burning essential oil in the basement and had to be carried to the street. j The St. Louis limited passenger on the Missouri Pacific crashed into the rear end of a freight train near Independence, wrecking the caboose and killing R. J. Thompson, a telegraph lineman, and seriously injuring A. Bechtel, brakeman. ■None of the passengers was hurt. The Turkish legation at Washington issues the following statement: “The entrance jnto Palestine is formally prohibited to foreign Israelites, and consequently the imperial ottoman authorities have received orders to prevent the landing of immigrant Jews in that province.” Miss Baryl Hope, the leading lady of the Salisbury stock company, which is playing at the Davidson Theater at Milwaukee, assaulted Arthur Weld, the critic of the Journal, in the lobby of the theater. Miss Hope took exception to the criticisms of her work by Mr. Weld and attacked him, using her fists until she was restrained by other members of the company. The entire plant of the Waumbeck woolen mills at Milton, N. H., was burned. Loss, $190,000. The mills have been idle since 1890, but arrangements recently were completed for resuming work, and they were to start again, giving employment to 300 hands. While the origin of the fire is unknown, it is supposed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion in the picker-room. Edward Alexander Callaghan, a private in First United States Volunteers (immunes), was shot to death at Galveston, Texas, and his companion, Jack Elliott, a civilian, was wounded in the abdomen. Harry Owens, a supernumerary policeman, surrendered himself. He says he attempted to arrest the men who had imposed upon a little boy, and they threw him down, kicked him and began knifing him. At St. Joseph, Mo., L. E. Purcell of Bedford, lowa, attempted to commit suicide because his betrothed refused to marry him. The State election in Maine resulted in the success of the full Republican ticket. Speaker Reed’s margin over McKinney, who ran on the Democratic ticket, was about 4,000 less than that of 1894. By the explosion of forty gallons of gasoline in the cellar of a grocery store at 1444 South street, Philadelphia, four and possibly a dozen more lives were lost. The building where the explosion occurred and those adjoining it on either side collapsed.