Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Canadian PaciSa railroad is said to be seeking terminal facilities in New York etty. Fire at Atlantic City, N. J„ damaged or destroyed the princtpal buildings of the place to the extent of $190,000. The indictments against the Maverick Bank Directors of Boston were quashed in the United States District Court. Dr. Ogden and Dr. Houser, Christian j science doctors of Lincoln, Neb., are un- j der arrest for practicing without & license. The Supreme Court of Michigan,upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of tho electoral college are elected bv Congressional districts. Hnn<jreds of prospectors are arriving nearly every day at the new Mehave j eounty, Arizona, mining camp, where a ! rich find, of gold js reported. The engagement is announced of Mr. j Edwin Gould, one of Jay Gould’s son’s, to Miss Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Shrady, of New York city. The iron workers of the Pittsburg district remain firm in their opposition to the reduction in wages proposed by Andrew Carnegie, and a big strike Is expected next Friday, wheu the new scale ls to go Into effect. - - “ j Dr. Henry M. Scudder, the famous physician, who stood charged with the murder of his mother-in-law, and was awaiting trial in the Cook county jail. Chicago, committed suicide Tuesday night by taking morphine. The forty regular soldiers who attacked the town of Suggs, Wyo., are under arrest. Major Ilsey, of the Ninth Cavalry, will turn them oyer to the sheriff of Sheridan county for trial. The soldiers attacked the people without cause. A warrant has been issued for the ar- j rest of Charles Waldron, of Utica, Minn., ! who was engaged to marry Emma Pears, I thirteen years old. It is reported that i Waldron threatened to take Emma’s life If he could not marry her. A shrewd talker, claiming to represent James Vick, the New York seedsman, is canvassing, northern Indiana counties, purporting to sell the clematis at $lB per lozen, but in reality disposing of an ivy vine collected in the woods,At Angora, Pa., two men who jumped off a train in obedience to orders were run iown and killed by a train coming from an opposite direction. Three of their friends, who had also been put off, opened fire on the trainmen, killing one and fatally inluring another. One year ago Wednesday Alley Bros. & Place, one of the largest leather firms in Boston, failed with liabilities of $510,000. To-day the firm out checks to their oreditors covering the final payment of one hundred cqntson the dollar, with 6 per ;ent interest. The present financial epnlition of the firm is of the best. Lenny James and Willy Wooley, of Milford Center, Ohio, each about twelve rears old, have been arrested for drownng George A. McDonald, six years old. They enticed the little boy to the pool, -look him Into the water and stood him on tis in the mud at the bottom and left aim. The water was about three feet ieep. The two boys have been bound >ver to court for murder. At the battle of Spottsylvania Court Souse, April 14,1864, W D. Walton, of Petersburg, Va., was struck by a«.- Minie, jail in tho armpit. The ball has been in Jim ever since, and for years Mr. Walton las been in bad health. An abscess formed m Ills breast where the ball was lodgedThe abscess broke and a quantity of mat;er came from it, Shortly afterward, in a toughing fit, ho coughed up the ball. Mr. IValton .ndW looks and feels like a new nan. His appetite, winch before was very Jad, can now scarcely be satisfied. August Grutz, of Burlington, la., Frilay, cut his wife’s throat, shot his mother-Ji-law, and then cut his’ own throat. zHis wife had loft him a couple of days ago bemuse of his brutality. He grasped her 4ead and pushed the revolver In her noutb, but before lie could pull the trigger she knocked the weapon from his. hand. He seized her agaia a. razor. He held-lfrfae^^fi£wrigirdespite her struggles, and began slashing at. her throat. She w arded oJE-thffTiiows w i tli her left a^," j trTrEff~fEe jQesh was terribly mutilated. He at last reached her neck, and made a long, but not very deep gash, from one ear to the other, and the unfortunate woman sank to tho ground with the blood flowing from her ghastly wounds Grutz, after shooting his mother-in-law, drew the razor across his own throat, inflicting a terrible gash. a They are all still alive, but the husband amkjyifo are in a critical condition.