Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Coulterville stage was held up six miles from Mercer, Colo., by a masked robber, who secured the Wells-Fargo treasure box, with its valuable contents. F. E. Wilson, alias C. B. Walts, William A. Black, C. C. Woods, and F. H. Woodward, awaiting trial nt Pueblo, Col., on a charge of forgery, is said to have operated throughout the West and Northwest. The detectives who have worked up the cases against Wilson say there are few towns of prominence in lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming where he has not swindled people by means of raised checks. James Graham was assassinated by moonshiners at Birmingham, Ala. He had been informing on them. The marriage of Edwin Holt and Mabel Eaton, the well-known theatrical people, has been indefinitely postponed because of the arrival at Toledo, Where they are playing, of Mr. Holt’s wife and three children. Disappointment in love caused Valente Aragon to blow out his brains at El Paso, Texas. ' Cuban insurgents are reported to have captured the towns of Baire Jiguani and Guantanamo. Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M. Farley. The murder was the result of a game of cards. Four children of M. S. Trimble in Bayou Rapids, La., were poisoned by morphine given them by their mother in mistake for quinine. Two have died.