Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

EAST. **■ ' 1 Mme. LrniiYDF, a well-known soprano, aommited suicide at Pittsburg by hanging. Spituahsm bad unsettled her mind.... General James L. Selfridge, a daubing Inian soldier, shot and killed himself nt 1 hiladelphia. Despondency orising from illness is the only reason assigned for the act. Governor Hill, of New York, has appointed Colonel Fred D„ Grant, Quarantine Commissioner. Ch arles B. Reynolds was found guilty of blasphemy at Morristown, N. J., and lined $25. He was defended by Robert G. Ingersoll.