Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Defaulter Taylor’s parachute seems to have worked all right. The condition of Representative Hitt is reported to be encouraging. Lord and Lady Sholto Douglass are living at Alameda, Cal., incognito. W. B. Chamberlain, of Chicago, was elected President of the National Association of Elocutionists at the convention in Boston. The Northern Trust Company of Chicago has increased its deposit of securities with the Auditor of Public Accounts at Springfield, 111., from $200,00Q to $500,000. Both north and south bound stages on the Klamath Falls and Ayer route, in Oregon, kverfl held up by a highwayman, who rifled the mail bags and robbed the one passenger. At Dallas, Texas, J. Dickerson, a jeweler, killed a 10-year-old boy who he claims was a burglar. The body was identified as that of John F. Reeves, son of a rich planter. Conspiracy is alleged.