Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

J. C. Davis, of Rochester, N. Y., arrested for obtaining money from San Francisco, Cal., merchants under false pretenses, was held to the Superior Court.

At New York, William Caesar, the WesT Indian negro Who, on March 29, murdered and dismembered Mary Martin, was sentenced to die by electricity in the week beginning July 29. Gus Loed and his wife, Julia, Hebrew peddlers, were murdered in Harlan County, Ky., by six masked men. Robbery was the only cause. The murderers have not been captured. Judge Simonton, of Charleston, S. C., has sentenced three dispensary constables to one and two months’ imprisonment in jail for seizing liquors imported into the State for private consumption. Col. William Winthrop, assistant judge advocate general of the army, will retire in August. His retirement will promote Lieut.-Col. Thomas Barr to be colonel and Major George B. Davis to be lieutenant colonel. At Colorado Springs, Colo., during an electrical storm, Mrs. Dolan, her children —Morris and Mary—and a group of visitors were in the dining room when a bolt of lightning struck the chimney. AH in the room were stunned. Mary, aged 0 years, was instantly killed. Charles P. Libby, president of the Libby, McNeill & Libby Company, died of Bright’s disease Monday morning at Chicago. Mr. Libby was one of the foremost of Chicago packers and the first to introduce the process of canning meat, which has since been put into use by all the packing companies of the city. Three Americans, Louis Deinond, James Crismore and Hal Jeffry, left E&calon, Mexico, for the Sierra Madre Mountains in search of the famous lost mine, La Fuente, which, according to tradition, contains a vast amount of ore of fabulous richness. The mine was abandoned by the Spaniards on account of the Indians over a Century ago, and although many attempts have been made to rediscover it, none has been successful. Farmers of Frontier and Perkins Counties held a meeting at Curtis, Neb., and denounced the stories of destitution that have been sent East concerning them. Lightning killed James Vochnsk'a, aged 20, at Montgomery, Minn., and a 3-year-old girl named Martin at Glendive, Mont. The girl’s mother and two children were Injured. Oil is reported from Findlay, 0., advanced two cents, the second time in a The walls of the old city hall at San Francisco, Cal.; caved in. One man was killed and three wounded. SsjETv •» 7