Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

bf Rhode Island’s new State officers were ft Inaugurated the other day with appropriJ ate ceremonies. Biddle Reeves, of the firm of Reeves & B Oewes, real estate brokers, at. Denver, K Colo., was found dead io bis room. Apoi plexy caused his death. | Widespread distress is reported in va- !> rious parts of the interior provinces of I Spain, more especially in the Province of Catalonia. Food prices have risen considerably and many working people have been thrown out of employment. Mrs. Postlewaite, a restaurart-keeper, ; has confessed that she killed W. C. Boyd, j a butcher, whose dead body was found near Hutchinson, Kan., a few days ago. | She said he went to her room at night aud threatened to kill her unless she would I marry him. J The Black Hills express on the FreK mont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Road, | dash<d into a freight train just west of Blair, Neb. The dead are: Lucien E. 5 Cook, engineer; Fred fireman. The injured: Charles Gassard and James M. Mason, mail clerks. r The last grand jury session at Toledo, •| Ohio, resulted in nn indictment against ' Levi A. Cass, publisher of the Toledo | Commercial, on a charge of criminally list beling Charles P. Griffin. Cass was plactj ed tinder S4(K) bail, but forfeited his bail and has not been found. Sheriff Stager Si has officially offered a reward of $25 for || his arrest and delivery as a fugitive from it justice. gl A letter, said to contain the names of I Spanish spies in the United States, has | -been abstracted from 42 Tupper street, ;j Montreal, Quebec, where Lieut CarFl rasnza, Senor du Bose and other members - of the Spanish secret service live. It was i secured by a United States secret service j «gent Carranza and his associates are j ’ moving heaven ami earth to regain it, and [ • have offered immense rewards, but it is E gone. I ’ Miss Alice F. Ordway, until recently f , assistant State librarian at Topeka, Kan., El committed suicide at the Elm House, ' Greenfield, Mass. She went there from | Louisville, Ky. She was found dead in I ** r room and an investigation revealed 1 that she had taken chloral. She was on I her way to Barton Landing, Vt., her nail live place, on a visit, having recently lost F ~ he** position because of political changes | at Topeka. H At Cincinnati, Ohio, during the DecoraI tion Day exercises in the east end apl itI .form, which had been erected on a hillt 1 Mde, gave way and seventy-five children | I jwent down. Parents fought the police i t, desperately to get at their children and E F the officers finally had to use their clubs ft| : check the panic. Seven girls and boys - K ere known to be hurt. At least twenty inI jured children were carried away before t their names could be learned. fc Gen. Erastus N. Bates, first United | States Senator from Minnesota, died at I Minneapolis, aged 70 years. i I .! According to the Washington corre- »' epondent of the London Telegraph, plane f r already under woy at Washington for ; an offensive and defensive Anglo-Anieri- / ean alliance, by the terms of which EngF land is to recognise the Monroe doctrine. ■ President McKinley has banned a proCJni nwtkn setting forth the terms ot a new Eknahmercial reciprocity agreement with French Government. It Is the first jiff 1 -[agreement entered into under section 3 Rt the Dlngley tariff law.