Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Grace Newman, 20 years old* pretty and stylishly dressed, leaped from a ferryboat at Detroit and was drowned. The whole south side of the Osceola, Neb., square was burned, with the exception of the Osceola Bank. The loss is over $50,000, with less than $5,000 insurance The Stromsburg and Shelby fire companies were culled and responded. Laura Jackson Arnold, aged 70 years, sister of “Stonewall” Jackson, and residing at Columbus, Ohio, left Friday to attend the reunion at Buckannon of the Fifth West Virginia Union Cavalry, of which she is the “mother,” having becti a Union woman during the war. Allen Wilson, a negro at Watongn, Ok., drank twenty glasses of gin in less than thirty minutes, staggered home and died in a few hours. He drank the liquor in Andrew Hank’s saloon, a crowd of interested spectators paying for the drinks for the fun of seeing them drank so fast. A serious attempt has been made upon the life of Buron Alphonse de liothschild at Paris. A large and heavy envelope was received at the bank Saturday addressed to the Bnron, and was opened by M. Zudkovitz, the confidential clerk of the banker. Just ns the clerk opened the envelope it exploded with great force. It tore obt his right eye and blew off some of his fingers. Frank A. Iteed, o prominent citizen of Alexandria, Va„ shot and killed himself at his home. The cause of the deed is not known.

An attempt was made to blow up a Northern Pacific train near Butte, Mont., by placing a dynamite in a frog. The last eur was shuttered, but no one hurt. Thomas J. Thornton has been sentenced to be hanged ut Fort Smith, Ark., Oct. 9, for murder. It is said six people will corroborate Durrnut’s alibi statement in Ilia trial for murder at San Francisco, Cal. • i John T. Jones, James Henry end Henry Piper were indicted at Carson, Nev., for the mint shortage'discovered Inst April. The Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Jhna secured evidence and will prosecute a score of quack doctors, practicing in Pittsburg and vicinity. i