Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

United States Judge John B. Rector is dead at Austin, Texas. At Seneca Falls, N. V., Airs. Rebecca Van Zandt died, aged 100 years. At St. Louis, Mo„ John Celia shot and killed Airs. Henry Carter and then killed tiimself with the same weapon. Notices have been posted at New Haven, Conn., on the big Can dee rubber shop, that work would be resumed at once. The boot and shoe makers, who number over 1,300, are called back to work. A new union passenger station, to cost $500,000, will be built by the Union Pacific, at Omalia, Neb. The ground has been broken. It will be used by every road entering the city except the Burlington. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has succeeded in effecting a settlement of the differences’between the Armour Packing Company and tlie Kansas City, Mo., labor unions, and it is agreed that the boycott against Armour's products shall be raised. The most serious fire in the history of Mnunington, the capital of the. Marion County, W. Va„ oil field, broke out in the new Commercial hotel. The flames were beyond control when discovered. The building, valued at $(>,000, burned like tinder, ami the fire soon spread in all directions. The total loss was about $50,000. At the meeting of the stockholders of the Alissouri, Kansas and Texas and the Kansas City and Pacific Railway Company for the purpose of consolidating the two lines under the name of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, an injunction was served to prevent the consolidation. The injunction was sent out by the estate of H. S. which holds 111,000 shares es the Kansas City and Pacific stocks In a wreck on the Chicago a.nd Erie Road near Lima, Ohio, one man was killed and four were injured. As the WellsFargo fast express was pulling into Lima the train became unmanageable and dashed past the depot at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The air brakes would not work, The local freight bad jnst pulled info a siding around a curve west of the depot and the switch was . open. A flagman heard the express whistling and ran ahead to flag, but the train dashed into'the siding and into the local engine. A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Gibraltar says the Spanish cruisers Cristobal Colon and Infanta 'Maria Teresa- have left Cadiz for a destination undivulgCd, with six battalions, each 1,000 strong. Additional troops, the dispatch asserts, will leave Cadiz by the mail steamers during the nCxt few days for Cuba. _ . - ; i The remains of Alias Frances Willard were reduced to ashes in the cremator/ at Rose Hill- cemetery, Chicago. They were interred in the Willard family lot in the same burying ground, beside those of her parents and a brother and sister. The Provident Trust Company at St f Paul, Minn., filed a deed of voluntary assignment, naming as assignee Edward Yanish. The deed sets forth that the occasion for the assignment is a judgment for $10,292.50, obtained in an Bction brought by E. De F. Barnet, as assignee pf the estate of It. C. Monger, *