Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Mrs. Mary Bourke, daughter of the late Thomas Corrigan, who at his death was the wealthiest man in Kansas City, has asked for a divorce from James O. Bourke, charging cruelty. Bourke is a lawyer of some note. A big Newfoundland dog belonging to W. A. Alexander, of Highland Park, 111., capsized a boat on the lake off that summer resort Friday night, drowning Mosher T. Greene, president of the Chicago Lumber Company, and Sorn Sorenson, eonehman. Two men were fatally hurt and two others dangerously injured by the caving in of the banks of a deep trench for underground telephone wires at St. Joseph, William and Andrew Thatcher, father and son, the latter 17 years of age, were arrested at Kansas City, Mo., for safe blowing. Thatcher, senior, is un old offender. Fremont Smith was hanged in San Quentin prison, California, for the murder of two fishing Companions. Admiral Ammen, who was stricken with vertigo Wednesday, is resting easily at his home at Ammeudalc, Md. C. C. Clark was appointed receiver of the Lockwood Manufacturing Company at South Norwalk, Conn. The liabilities are $280,000. John Buchanan, a mill-worker of Pittsburg, Pa., killed bimself, after fatally injuring his mother. His wife la missing, and it is feared he killed her.