Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS

Charles Bell, of Shelbyvllle, fell off • ladder and was fatally hurt. Oliver Scotten, near Huntington, while thrashing wheat was killed by the explosion of the fibiler. - The Carroll county Democracy have instructed for the re-election of Senator Turpie. \ The Rev. Dr. John Vanest Talmage, brother pf the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, died at Boundbrook, N. J., Saturday. Miss Dora, an attractive young woman, daughter of David Paddock, of Corydon, killed herself by swallowing Rough on Rats. She was disappointed in love. In a runaway accident at Elnora, Mrs. T. P. Gephart attempted to jump and received fatal hurts. Her husband was thrown out and received a fractured rib. Last January, O. K. Rogers, city clerk of Bfeaver, Okla,, disappeared. His skeleton has been found with a bullet holo in his skull. It is ,believed that he was murdered and robbed of a' large sum. General Weaver, in an interview at Denver, Saturday, expressed great confidence in the People's party carrying all the Western States and a number of the Souths - He claims the result in November will te a great political upheaval. The okl sgurt bouse at Tipton has beep sold and a new one will bo erected at a cost of 1200.000 on tjic old site. The condemned structure was built in 1867, and at that time-was thought to bo one of the finest iu the State. The State Department at Washington lias been informed that the house of Dr Bartlett, an American missionary at Asia* Minor, has been burned and hisllfe'threatenod. Protection, indemnity and punishment of the guilty persons will be deinanned. » 2 A dispa tchirom tW Congo S‘ate announces that a Congo State force has defeated the Arabs on the Sankoran river, near the place where the Hodister expedition was massacred. Ten chiefs were killed and seven hundred men were captured by the troops. = - - Thqoffieial cholera report Issued aV St., ’Petersburg on the 22. d, shows an increse of 381 new cases and an increase of 226 deaths, as compared with Saturday’s figures. The total number of new cases reported Sunday was 6,891 and the deaths numbered 3,313. Charles Vincent, confined in prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., for burgfary, was shot and kilted, and James Welsh, doing tin e for grand llareenv, was woundod severely in the leg, while attempting to escape oh tho 22d. They wore confined in the same coll, and sawed tho lotiltaefl bars off during the night. ’• ' Cholera continues to claim a fearfully large number of victims in Teheran. Sanitary regulations aro almost unknown there, and the fatalistic tendencies of the peopio'malre ft almost impossible to combat with the disease. Eight hundred died on the 22nd'. Tho city is estimated to have a populatiation of 140,099. Acting Secretary Spaulding has authorized collectors of customs and other cers under the direction of the Treasury Department, to grant leave of absonce to all persona undef their immediate jurisdiction who served in the army or navy during the war of the rebellion for tho purpose of Attending the Washington encampment, September 20. Capt. Eugene Bunch, the noted train robber, while resisting arrest was killed by detectives near Franklinton, La., (hi tho 22d. Coil Ilopgood, who was with Bunch, surrendered without firing a shot. Bunch began firing as soon as he saw the qjtjcers, but none of them were hit, being protected by a fence. Bunch’s body was riddled with bullets, all the posse firing at him at once. Joseph Snyder, a farmer, near Delphi, ( two weeks ago purchased a yearling colt liamoci Grasshopper, for $75. The col t was entered in a raco at Delphi, pacing a half mile in 1:4134. At Lebanon ho made a half mile record of 1:20, scoring the second quarter in 0;38. After tho Lebanon race Snyder was offered-$1,50J for the colt, which was promptly declined. lie was then offered SIO,OOO, provided Grasshopper made a record of 2:30 this fall. The colt is considered a marvel by horsemen, and is being carefully trained. A singular instance of long continued silence on the part of one able to talk Is re called by tho death of Mrs. Matilda Erny, at Hatfield, Pa., on the 22d, She had not uttered a word for over eleven years. Twelve years'ago she became mentally unbalanced and was taken to the Morristown insane asylum for treatment. Soon afterward, without apparent excuse or reason, she suddenly ceased talking. Ra» peated attempts were made to surprise her Into speech or conversation by announcing interesting news and wonderful intelligence, but no inducement could lead her to open her lips to speak a syllable, and during all theso years she maintained an unbroken silence. Considerable anxiety prevails In London religious circles because of the work that is being carried on there by tho Mormon missionaries, They have been especially activo in North London, jpid it is said have gained quite a numbor of converts to their faith.A petition was recently presented to the London Cohnty Council asking It to stop the Mormon propaganda, which is carried on principally through open air meetings. The council considered the petition and finally refused to stop the out door meetings. A Baptist minister tn the Hornsey district, in denouncing the perversion of his flock, stated that Brigham Young, Jr., who is an European apostle of tho Mormon church, sends five hundred converts to Utah annually- The greater part of Wiese converts, he added, were English.

Twenty-three years agoßenj. Hubbe, a wharf master at Evansville, well known in business and Masonic circles, was supposed to have been drowned. He carried. *IO,OOO life insurance, and tbe family settled for $5,000. Some years ago Evansvlllalns claimed to havo setn Hubbs in California, bot this was disputed by the family. Becently, however, a letter purporting to have been written by his wife, was received at Evansville, making inquiries relative to Hubbs, with a view of securing a pension, and this letter developed that Hubbs was at the head of an influential family at San Fraaciseo. .