Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Mrs. Emma Riggs and her 19-ycar-old daughter Helena were burned to death in Philadelphia, The younger woman's balloon sleeves caught lire at a gas stove. Wm. Connor, a well-dressed stranger, called upon the sheriff at Indianauolis, Ind., demanding protection from his eneihies. He was.detained as an insane person. He gave his home as Fullman, 111. Friday a systematic raid on Chinatown by Federal authorities was begun at San Frnncisco. Every Chinese laborer who cannot produce a satisfactory certificate, accompanied by a photograph, will be arrested and held to answer under the deportation law, commonly known as the “Geary act.’’ The decision of the collector of the port ns to the right of the Chinese to remain here will bo final. The United States Attorney General authorized Marshal Baldwin to begin the raid. The lay electoral conference at Ann Arbor, Mich., of the Detroit Methodist Conference allowed eleven women to be seated, practically without any opposition. The Committee on Credentials made no objection Whatever to the women taking their seats, and the conference ratified the action by adopting the report on ah almost ununiinous vote. James Tinsley, of the fertilizer firm of James G. Tinsley & Co., of Richmond, VaT, announces the organization of a Inrge combine of fertilizer firms. The Virginia-Carolina Chemienl Company is the name of the trust. The collector of customs at Ogdensburg, N. Y., has been directed by the Secretary of flio Treasury not to admit any of the 200 recently lauded at Van couver en route to the Atlanta Exposition.There is reason for the belief that this is a fraudulent attempt to gain admission into the United States.