Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A United States express package of $7,500 was checked in at the Youngstown, Ohio, office, but was missing from the safe when the messenger for Pittsburgh was ready to receive his.mntter. No clew to the thief has yet been obtained... .John P. Bente <t Co., picture-frame manufacturers at- Cincinnati, made an assignment, owhra $30,000. Mr. Wilber F.: Story proprietor and editor of lh° 'Tinico, diedTaF his” residence in that city, Oct. 27. For several ye.irs past he was unable to take 1 active part in the management of the paper, owing to his failing and feeble health. Several years ago he was shicken with paralysis, and from that time dated the gradual br'e ik-down of his system.- Heavas- born in Sa’isbuiy. rtStT) Dec. 19. 18)9. aud at an Varly age began the work of supporting himself. His attendance* at school was limited by the facilities of a country district. As soon as the oppor- i tunity offered he entered a newspaper office and fitted himself as a compositor. He came West in 1838, first settling at L iport e, Ind. His next experience in journalism was in Jackson. Mii-li. In 1853 he removed to Detroit and connected himself with the Pfes». of which he shortly becaine sole proprietor. In 1851 he disposed of his paper, and, going to Chicago, bought the 'l’inien. Since that time his career -base- been one of unceasing activity. At all times he was bold and fearless in the expression of his opinions. His death takes from the ranks of jommalism ene of, its,gi'eate mbstlpbwerful writers.... In a collision on the Wabash Railroad, near Taylorville, 111., fourteen Italian immigrants were somewhat seriously injured. . . .Col. Griffin Halstead, one of the pioneers of Butler County, Ohio, the father of Murat Halstead, met his death by accident at a bridge. Two FIRE-DAMP explosion ■ occurred in the sixth flat of the Youngstown Coke Company’s mine, near IlniontoiVn, Pa., in a section where twenty-five men were at work. Windows for miles around were shattered, and flames burst from all the openings. Six men were taken out—two dead, two fatally injured, and two slightly, ImUltrtvasTmpbsMiSleTffi ATtempFUie rescue of the others. The wailing of the wives and children of the unfortunate meh is described as heartrending.