Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Maj. William Hardiman, aged 74, was shot from ambush and killed on a lonely road near Esculapia Springs, Ky. A mob took James Freeman, colored, from a guard of four men at Columbia City, Fla., tied him to a tree and shot him to death. He had tried to assault Mrs. Consel, also colored. “Bad Tom” Smith, of Jackson, Ky., did not die on the gallows Friday for Rader's assassination. He has taken an appeal, which respites him for sixty days, or until the appeal is decided. While searching for washouts between Edison and Oxford, Neb., the engine of the repair train jumped into a washout about two miles east of Edison, aittf of the five men on the engine four were killed. This is one of the results of the breaking of Curtis Lake dam. has been received that the French Catholic and English and American missionary property at Ching Too, capital of the province of Szechuen, Western China, was destroyed by rioters. The missionaries are reported to be safe in the officials, Yuinens. The province of Szechuen has been termed the “Texas of China.” Ching Too is the capital city. , Janie Caldwell, the 18-year-old daughter of Farmer Josiah Caldwell Jiving near Birmingham, Ala., cut her throat in the presence of Joe Jennings because he took Another girl to a dance. She died in his •rma.