Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At Huron. Ivan.,' Mrs. Michaol Gallagher threw carbolic acid in her husband's face, disfiguring him for life. At Logansport, Ind., Frank Kemp was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. He shot his father at Galveston. Russians around Topeka, Kan., are returning to Russia to stay. Ketch one takes from $2,000 to $5,000 in cash with him. At Ohillicothe. Mo., Circuit Judge Broaddus has ordered disbarment proceedings for alleged subornation against Attorney Charles A. Loomiif. Terrible prairie fires are raging south of Perry, O. T., and great damage has been done. Thousands of acres have been burnod.over, and much hay and other crops destroyed. Several people had narrow escapes. In the death of S. Corning Judd, which occurred Sunday, another of the old familiar figures, who, from long association, have been landmarks in Chicago’s history, has passed away. The ranks of these old-timers who made history for Chicago before the fire, aye even before the war, too, for that matter, are thinniug out year by year, but seldom has such a picturesque figure made bis exit from the arena as S. Corning Judd. Sunday J. J. Worrell, editor of the Jackson, Tcnn., Dispateh, and his little I nephew were severely burned by the ex- I plosion of gas. Mr. Worrell and the boy 1 went into a room and struck a match and ' au explosion followed, the gas having j been turned on without their kuowledge. t Though severely burned, their condition ' Is not serious. In Atchison County, Kau., R. A. Evans, u farmer, accidentally and fatally ■hot himself. At Scbooleraft, Mich., Genevieve and Stella Bunion, daughters of Court Crier • Batson, eloped with two strangers. -Z~.