Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Blake Building at Oakland, Cal., burned. Loss, $20,000. “Rev." .William Walker, of Denver, passed through Rochester, N. Y., in a prairie schooner, lie had driven all the way from Denver and is on his way to New York city for the benefit of his health. George Newcombe, alias “Bitter Creek,” alias “Slaughter Kid,” and Charles Pierce, the dead outlaws, were identified at Guthrie, (J. T., as two of the Rock Island train robbers, and Newcomb as a member of the gang that robbed several Santa Fe trains. Fire in Buffalo, N, Y-, destroyed M. Strauss & Son's tannery, postal station A, Groben's coal yard, barns, several freight cars, 4wo dwellings, a number of horses and a large amount of stock in East Buffalo. The loss is estimated at $250,000, with $125,000 insurance. The Omaha Indians received $25,000 in money Monday at the Decatur, Neb., agency. Per capita it amounted to S2O. They flocked to Decatur about 250 in number. It was not long before drunken Indians filled the streets. Depredations of all kinds were committed. Knives, pistols and all sorts of deadly, weapons were thick. A determined young lover met a violent death at Blount Springs, Ala. Thomas Sayre, a Nashville, Tenn., tinner, started to Birmingham to surprise his sweetheart, Miss Mary Zimmer, of Nashville, who is visiting there. He got as far as Decatur, Ala., when his money was stolen. Nothing daunted he took to thg trucks of a Louisville and Nashville freight. He was put off twice and twice got on again. At the i>oint mentioned he tried to get from under the ear and wus run over and killed. Dr. Julian 11. Seelye, ex-president of Amherst College, is critically ill. Five out of seven occupants of a leaky old boat, which the party had taken to go for a fishing trip on Carsrude lake, Colo., were drowned. Badger, one of the party, had become -.frightened and overturned the boat while attempting to paddle it to the shore. A company has been organized at Portland, Ore., to pack and export horse meu. Mr. and Mrs. George Baatigh, Frank Connelly and Edward Moriarity ‘were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at De-