Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The treasury deficit for July is already more than $6,000,000. The Saphite Iron Company, of Florence, Ala., employing 200 men, has advanced wages 10 per cent. David Renner, aged 90 and insane, of Greene County, Tenn., killed himself bj hanging with a log chain. John W. Carter, the Well-known ink manufacturer of Boston, was drowned while bathing at Harwich, Mass. Ben Lennox, an American ranchman in Mexico, was shot from ambush by a Mexican driver he had discharged. The Santa Rita copper and iron mill at Santa Rita, N. M., burned at midnight. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Believed to be uninsured. Mary Morgan, aged 21, and Maggie Rafferty, aged 22 years, were struck by a Pennsylvania train at Holmesburg Junction, Pa., and killed. Folts Brothers, dry goods merchants at Sioux Falls, S. D., assigned for the benefit of all creditors. Liabilities, $12,000; assets somewhat less. Post office authorities have issued fraud orders against J. G. Baldorf, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Charles Allen, of New York and Weston, W. Vn L Dr. Edward R. Palmer, one of the berft known physicians in the United States, was run over by a bicycle in Louisville and so badly injured that he died. E. L. Nicholson, representing the oil company headed by the president of the lead trust, was arrested at Wheeling, W. Va., for stealing $200,000 worth of leases. Winona, Mo., was wiped out of existence by a cloudburst, or a tornado similar in destructive power, between 9 a. m. and 1 p. in. Saturday. Eleven people were drowned.

At Gray Gables, the quiet and picturesque summer home of President Cleveland, at 4:30 Sunday afternoon a little girl ww born to Mrs. Cleveland. Mother and child are doing well. Ed Berry, of Gadsden, Ala., interfered with John Kyle while the latter was beating a woman. Kyle resented this and slashed Berry with a razor, causing the latter’s death in- half an hour. Six persons were drowned in Lake Geneva, Wis., at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon when the steam launch Dispatch was turned over by the tornado that passed over that section. The boat went to the bottom dike a shot. As a result of a riot at a picnic at Siberia, Perry County, Ind., three persons are dead, five fatally wounded and fifty seriously hurt. The desperate fight, which lasted for an hour, -was precipitated by a gang of roughs. North Dakota farmers are unanimous in the statement that the State will this year harvest the largest crop of wheat for many years. The quantity was variously estimated at from 45,000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels. Not a few venture the statement that the average yield would be from sixteen to thirty bushels to the acre. The Kentucky Populists held their State convention at Louisville. They adopted the Omaha platform and declared for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 10 to 1. A delegation of women appeared before the convention and in several speeches urged the convention to adopt a plank in its platform indorsing equal suffrage, but it was voted down. James Reynolds, a druggist of Parsons, Jvan., pleaded guilty to selling liquor in 'violation of the law and was fined S3OO. More arrests will follow. Sitting on the spot where a jealous lover had several years before shot her, Mrs. Robert Cone, of Alley, Ga., committed suicide with a shotgun, which she exploded with her foot. At Louisville, Ala., lightning killed Postmaster Edward Bryan, wife and baby. One boy survives. Thomas Norville, colored, was hanged at Mobile, Ala., for the murder of Louis Coleman, also colored. Allen Martyn, a farmer of Calhobn County, Ark., was shot from nmbusli by a negro. His family witnessed the murder., Two childreß of Edward Moss were bnrned to death in the washhouse of their home at Turentum, Pa. They had been exploding firecrackers.

to commute the sentence to life imprisonment at 6 o’clock in the morning. The woman sank on her knees before the Gov-

ernor and pleaded for her husband’s though her grief almost prevented her from speaking. Governor Morton was plainly overcome by the woman’s pleading and tears stood in his eyes as 'he lifted her to her feet and told her that he could not grant her request. The crime for which the condemned man suffered the death penalty was the alleged poisoning of his wife in 1893. Ho married Miss Annie Bruce Patterson In Halifax; N. S., about ten years ago. By her he had a daughter, who is now living. In 1890 Dr. Buchanan got a divorce and eoon after he married Anna B. Sutherland, of Newark, N. J. She made a will devising all of her property to him. Within six months she died and the doctor! said she had been poisoned. Then fol-

lowed the arrest of her husband, who soon after her death had remarried his first wife. Although the testimony against him was very strong Dr. Buchanan always protested his innocence. He was about 34 years old.

DR. BUCHANAN.

BUCHANAN AND HIS WIFE.