Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

A London Chronicle dispatch from Berlin says the Vossische Zeitung has news from Tiflis that 5,000 soldiers and 10,000 Kurds under Sako Pasha attacked the Armenian town Kemakh and several villages. They plundered the churches and monasteries and burned the houses. At Hickman, Ky., William Butcher, a desperate negro, was taken from jail and lynched hy a mob. His head was shot off and his body riddled with bullets. The Atlantic coast was startled.,, by three eurtbquake shocks. No serious damage was done, though many windows were broken and a few people were thrown out of bed. William Alsup, driver of a hearse, was killed by lightning in a cemetery near Baltimore. Marshall McDonald, United States fish commiaaioner, died in Washington. He Vu born in Virginia fifty-eight years ago. f '\ ,;■ A