Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Forty-two miners are believed to have perished by suffocation from smoke and gas in a burning copper mine at Calumet, Mich. | The American yacht Defender won the first \>f the cup contests, Saturday, from the British boat Valkyrie, by a margin of nearly nine minutes. At Fayetteville, Tenn., “Dock” King, colored, arrested on the charge of attempting to assault Mrs. Charles Jones, near Fayetteville, was taken from jail by a mob of 200 men and hanged. A merry-go-round at the Waverly, N. J., fair went to pieces, throwing women and children in all directions. Four women were so much hurt that they had to be carried on stretchers to the ambulances. George W. Russel was arrested at Smithsville, Mo., charged with murdering Daniel Stone, a wealthy farmer, who was found June 25 at his home, a mile east oftc Smithsville, with his head beaten to a jelly. At Grand Haven, Mich., May Pierce, 13 years old, was found guilty of man. slaughter. The child was accused of being an accomplice of George Cheesbro, aged 18, in the murder of her mother on July 8. Cheesbro was convicted of murder at the last term of court and is now serving a life sentence. Hans Bjornstem, Edward L'atshaw and wife, and their two sons were killed, and three terribly injured, by dynamite, at Speclit’s Ferry, near Dubuque, lowa, Tuesday. The elder Latshaw boy was shooting at a mark, and accidentally struck a stock of* dynamite which his father used in a stone quarry. The third days’ session of the medicolegal congress, in New York, began with the reading by Clark Bell of a pnper by Gustave Boehm on “The Brutality of Capital Punishment.” The author contended that the death penalty, had no deterrent effect; that it was a relic of feudal barbarism nnd was merely an act of revenge on the part of the State. Five hundred teachers at Anderson, Ind., adopted a resolution indorsing the Nicholson liquor lnw and the Monroe doctrine in politics. • Westminster Church, Minneapolis, a handsome brown-stone structure at Nicollet avenue and 7th street, in the heart of the retail business district, was gutted by fire. A warrant is out for O. L. Bitner, charged with embezzling money from the Fear Poultry Company at Kokomo, Ind. At Westfield, Ind.. aGvork train was wrecked nnd Reuben Byroads nud W. MBowen each had a leg broken. Westminster" Church, a stone structure at Minneapolis, Minn., in the heart of the retail business district, was burned. The loss is $75,000,. covered by insurance. The congregation is the wealthiest nud largest of the Presbyterian denomination in the State. The fire was clearly incendiary.