Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — SHORT NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Canada is building war vessels. Shelbyville will have electric ears. A new gusher has been developed at Atlanta. Susan McCormack, aged ninety-six’ died at Shoals, Tuesday. Mrs. Hannah Evans, of Greencastle, is dead, aged eighty-seven. A receiver lias been appointed for the Order of Solons at Pittsburg. Pa. Richard Croker, the Tammany Sachem, says that organiza Jon will ask nothing from Cleveland. The House has passed the Senate biij increasing the pensions of Mexican veteftins from $8 to sl2 a month. Stamboul, the celebrated stallion, wa sold at auction in New York, Tuesday, for $41,000, to D. H. Herriman. An agreement has been signed by Dillon, Davitt and Harrington, by which the Irish fund at Paris will be released. 3The proposition to make Grant and Huntington counties separate judicial circuit is favored by the bars those bail wicks. John Brandt, a merchant of Evansville, was killed by an electric car, Tuesday. The moterman and conductor were arrested. Many Terre Haute people have been victimized by a smooth-talking young man who took orders for clothing, and collected in advance.

Kansas Populists are reported to be organizing military companies for the purpose of taking posession of the State Legislature by force if necessary. 3G. W. Baird, president of the First National Bank of Lebanon, was dangerously injured by a fall. Owing to bis advanced age bls recovery is doubtful. The Louisiana Sup erne Court has sustained the “Jim Crow” law, making i t compulsory on railroads in that State to provide separate coaches for white and colored passengers. The $75,010 paid by the Chilean government, in settlement in full for all claims arising out of ibe Baltimore affair at VaK paraiso, was paid into the sub-treasury at New York. Tuesday. John Freyhoff, of Urbana, 0., a German gardener, well- to-do, tried to m urde r bi a wife and two children, Monday, and bo* lieving he had killed his wife, committed suicide. It is believed Mrs. Freyhoff wil die.

Herr Most,the valiant knight of anarchy was publicly horsewhipped by Emma Goldman at New York, Monday nightThe woman is a friend of Bergman, whose shooting of H. C. Frick was discountenanced by Most. Charles Fort was convicted off manslaughter at Marion. Tuesday, for killing Michael Halpin, an inmate of the Soldiers Home, at Jonesboro, last July, and sen. tened to twenty-one years in the penl-> tent) ary. Jacob Krieger, once a prominent financier of Louisville, died in that city, Monday, penniless and heartbroken. Rising by bis own efforts to affluence, he lost hi? fortune in trying to save the Masonic Savings Bank, of which he was President, which failed August 8, 1891. He was a native of Prussia and aged 67. An Indianapolis Journal staff correspondent sumarizes the prosperity of Muncie as follows: Increase of wealth in Delaware county in five years, 17,000,000; increase of Muncie’s population from 6,000 ten years ago to 22.000 in 1892; 000,000 outside capital brought in; 8,000 workmen employed; monthly wages paid in factories. $350,000. Patents were on Tuesday granted Indiana inventors as follows: Johnston U. Frank, Eden, picket wiring fence machine; David Shivell, Arlington, buggy top; J ames M. Smclser. Richmond, sash balance; Nelson Therlen, Hammond, ceding ornament; Horace W. Tingloy, Michigan City, assignor to Automatic Turning Co.. Chicago, rotary lathe.