Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1892 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS

Maine went Republisan by about 11,OCO. A $750,000 fire occurred in Albany, N. Y„ ou ths 12th. Elwood public schools are hampered for want of room. The report that Senator Hill Is to marry is again revived. Jail deliveries have been all the rage In Crawfordsville lately., » M rs, E. C. Wilson, wife of the ex-Mayo of Noblesville, is dead. The soldiers of Vermilion county held a great reunion at Newport. Boston is preparing to have a Columbus celebration on October 21. Gov. Eagle, of Arkansas, is improving tapidly and is able to sit up. Jeffersonville seems to bo waiting for the cholera to come before cleaning up. 2Garfield Park has received its death blow at the hands of the Chicago city council. The West Lafayette Methodists are pre paring to erect a new church. Estimated cost, $:0,0j0. A terrific electrical storm swept over Bloomington, Hl., Sunday night, doing much damage. Perry, Converse & Co., leather dealers, of Boston, have made tin assignment Liabilities from $75,0u0 to SIOO,OOO. In boring for gas at Charlottesville a fine artesian well was struck. The water flows freely, and is free from limo and almost tasteless. Home Secretary Asquith has replied to the petiticn in behalf of Mrs. Maybrick, declining to advise the Queen to interfere with the prisoner’s sentence. A kve-hin:dred-barrcl oil well has been itiuck near Portland in a now district. Thera are six square miles adjoining this wollnot yet touched by the.drlll. The radical wing of the United Brethren church Sunday dedicated a now house of worship st Dublin. Services were con* ducted by Bishop Becker, of Ohio. Returns from nearly all the counties Indicate that lite Democratic plurality In the Arkansas State election will be over 30.C00. The Legislature will have a Democratic majority of about two-thirds Its membership.—The proposed constitutional amendment, making a poll tax receipt a prerequisite to voting, was defeated. Theodore Morgan, the half-witted boy arreetod at Kokomo last week for bornburnlng, made an astonishing confession Monday to Sheriff Simmons, which clears up the mystery of the numerous barnburn'.ngs and attempts at train wrecking near that city recently. Morgan admits applying the torch to tlio four barns and straw stacks burned. He also confesses the authorship of all the train wrecking of recent years, besides more than a score of unsuccessful attempts to destroy trainsHe lives near the scene of the wrecks, a mile north of town, beside the Lake Erie & Western track, atid would get up In the night, unknown to his parents, and chain ties and logs across the rails, after which ho would return to bed. When a small boy Morgan met with au accident that affected his brain.

A sensation has been sensed st Newton* Kan., by a decision of court that all marriage licenses issued by the county clerk are lllegal, as that privilege belongs to the probatejudge. William Paragon, of Lebanon, as brakeman on tho Chicago <fc Southeastern railwar, fell off his train on his first trip and was kliled. He was tho only support of a wldowr-d mother. The Attorney General of Indians has decided that only election officers are allowed In the ro«'.n during the coutylng of tho ballots, thus doing away with the old tluio watchers. The first handkerchiefs on the British islands were macle in Paisley, Sceitand. 17-13. were made popular on the continent Ly tho Empress Joeow'ue, <o bad bad teeth and hold her har.dhcrcbief* before her XO-Ut »b»t> th*