Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — SHORT NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

The authorities at Seymour are paying MO per month for blood hounds with which to track criminals. Thomas Royston, Evansville, Attempted suicide with morphine because tired of life. He is aged seventy. H. C. Hanna, of Ft. Wayne, member of the State Republican committee from the Twelfth district, and Chairman qf the Allen county committee, have resigned and their resignations have been accepted* George P. Williams, the messenger who was in charge of the Pacific Express Company car that was robbed at Adair, Ind. by the Dalton gang, has been suspended, pending examination by the company. Jem Mace, of London. England, the retired champion pugilist of the world, and the only man who ever held the title, has made application t-o The Chicago Athletic Association for the position of boxing instructor to the. club. • = ' 2 john Russell, a miner in the Otter Creek mine of the Brazil BlocltkCoal Company, near Carbon, was fatally crushed by falling slate, Monday. He was terribly crushed abbuT the head - and chest, and about three tons o! slate was removed from off his body, —lt now looks as if lLei'O”wlll tld airotheiF" vacancy in President Harrison’s-Cabinet about August 1. The West Virginia Republican State convention will meet Aug/ 3, apd it is believed Secretary of War -Elkins..will. be. tendered the nomination for Governor by acclamation. The report that J. K. Kelso, president nf theThnrit of Mag noI ia. Ark., and of th Gate City National Bank, of Texarkana, and vice-president of the Ouachita Valley Bank, of Camden, Ark., was a defaulter to the extent of $70,000, and that he has left the country, has been confirmed. The section men on the Wabash railtoad between Peru and Tipton, are on a for higher wages. At the Danvillo and Tilton yards they have, been .receiving $1.20 a day, elsewhere on the division sl.lO a day. The men want a uniform rate of T 1.25 a day. T - TheTatest'Engtlsh - total results: Liberals, 271; Tories, 267; - Liberal Unionists, H-; —anti-I'arncHttefr, — 67; Parnqllites, 9. Net Liberal gain, 62. Total for home rule, 347; against homo rule, 311. The aggregates of the polling upto present time are: Unionists and Conservative, 2,118,533; Gladstonian, 2.375,337. Willie, the nine-year-old son of Chgrles Dodwell, a contractor, of Brazil met with an accident on the 18th that resulted fatally. He was playing on the fence with a long-bladed knife in his hand, when he accidentally lost his balance and fell off. In endeavoring to save himself he threw the hand in which the Knife was clasped, under him. The full weight of his body lauded upon the upturned blade, and it entered his body to the hilt. The wound caused intefnal hemorrhage and death. Agentshave canvassed northern Indiana for the sale of so-called “Quaker Herbs, the same bearing a label inscribed, “Prepared only by the Society of Friends, Westchester, Chester county, Pe»n.” Accompanying the same is a guarantee that if the herbs fail of cure, by returning the label to the parent soetetpthe price wiil_. be returned. Investigation develops that a spurious drug is being forced on the market, with which the Friends have nothing to do. 1

The first vessel which arrived at New York.from SUolms, N. F.. since the firo whifrh -^vept- -Vjvo-tliiEd&jj£~tha-.taw.u„au.l.. of existence, '4s the steamship Miranda, commanded by Capt. H, H. Leseman, who got into St. Johns during the fire, and was evidently impressed with the sight. Talk about a big fire,” said Capt. Leseman, ‘Tm spinning you no sea yarn when I tell you that at 120 miles distance from St. Johns the windows and doorsf of the pilothouse had to be closed tight on account of the dense smoke the strong northwest wind blowing off shore brought down on us. We felt the heat fully sixty miles away, and from where we were anchored the whole eastern part of town looked like one huge, glowing coal. The remains of Morfis Allen Collins, a member of the Whitechapel club of Chic igo, in deference to his wishes, frequently expressed before death, were cremated on the banks of Lake Michigan, near Morris Station. The funeral pyre 7 was made of light pine and-it required three hours to reduce the body to hshes. Collins was a student of sciology, and having met with taany reverses his life was embittered. Previous to joining the Whitechaplers he was president of a suicide club, which he established at Dallas, Tex. Th» chib chose a secluded spot in Indiana, and while the body was being cremated members made short addresses on metaphysical topics suggested by Collin’s life and tenets.

Chairman Republican National CotauiitWe.

THOS. H. CARTER,