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

BREVITIES.

Bandits who held up Wiliam Lee, a Liberty, Ind., farmer, got 22 cents for their trouble. Miss Annie Sandritter died at Leavenworth from a spider bite. She was bitten on the lip and blood poisoning set in. In a fight with the Christian gang of outlaws near Purcell, I. T., United States Marshal Jake Hooker was shot and mortally wounded and Bob Christian shot, but how serious his injuries are cannot be determined. The gang escaped. The Denver police have been notified of the arrest of Elmer Loescher, the missing engineer of the Gumry Hotel, at Antonito, iu the southwestern part of the State. It is alleged he admits he alone is responsible for the disaster by which twenty-two lives were sacrificed. Obituary—At North Andover, Mass., H. O. Houghton, Sr., head of the Boston publishing house of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 70; at Dubuque, lowu, Mrs. Adeline Stetson, an old-time actress, 07; at Edgewood, 111., Itobert L. Jennings, of Milwaukee; ut Detroit, James L. Edson, 05; at Indianapolis, Thomas Barnitt, 80. The Great Northern overland passenger train, which left Seattle, Wash., at 7:10 o’clock Sunday night, ran into a landslide fifteen miles from Richmond Beach. The engine and tender were ditched and the fore trucks of the bag-gage-car left the track. Engineer Neal McKinley was killed. The train had many passengers, and McKinley, in the face of danger, stood at his post and succeeded in saving the lives of those he piloted only to be horribly mangled himself. t-- -4-y Three children of Henry Johnson, colored, living near Mexia, Texas, were burned to death Sunday night while their parents were at church. While counting his honrd of $5,000 at Hamilton, Ala., Ben Stillman upset a lamp, which, exploding, set fire to the house and the money and cabin were consumed. D. W. Knoll, a traveling insurance Agent, cut his threat at the home of a friend in Cleveland, Ohio. Probate Judge White decided at Cleveland that Will J. McConnell, the wellluown temperance lecturer, la insane.