Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

New York has a case of yellow fever. The pntient arrived from Havana. Tom Wilbur, aged 91, committed suicide with a razor at Norwich. N. Y. A report reached Chamberlain, S. D., that the notorious Bedderly brothers, who have long been n/ferror to cattlemen on aeeount of their hold and wholesale thefts Of eattle, were lynched by a vigilance committee in Buffalo County, Charles Kiser, of LebaiJ mi, Ind., fatally shot his wife Thursday night. He hns been kept awake by dogs that came into his yard. Mrs. Kiser hearing the dogs gos up and went out in the yard to drive them away. M.uutime Kiser got his gnu and shot Mrs. Kiser instead of the dogs. Eight men were killed and ten seriously hurt by the premature explosion of a blast near Meluiffy, Pa., on the Pittsburg and Eastern Railway. At Stineville, Ind., David On 1 rose and Charles Deck fought n duel with knives, the outgrowth of an old feud between families. Deck is dying uud Culross is in a dangerous condition. The Humane Society will preveut the advertised bull fight at the Atlanta Exposition if possible. The North Carolina Raibond has been leased to the Southern Railroad for a period of ninety-nine years. The census of Massachusetts shows a population of 2,495,345, an increase of 553,204 over the figures for 1885. Prof. William Spencer Curreli, Professor of English at Davidson College, N. C.„ has been elected to the chair of modern languages and English in Washington and Lee University.