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

NEWS NUGGETS.

At Winchester, Ky., B. Fulton French has been indicted for the murder of Judge Combs. At Defiance, Ohio, George Bohn and Frank Switzer fell from a roof sixty feet high. Switzer may die, but Bohn will recover. - A Mad dog bit a number of horses and cqws ; at Abingdon, 111. The animals weje ktrying to bite a farmer. At Limn, Ohio, the Standard Oil Company reduced prices on North Lima oil to 65 cents per barrel, South Lima to 63 cents, and Indiana to 56 cents. At Union Star, Mo, Milton Clark killed himself on his sweetheart’s doorstep because her father, John Lafoon, refused to accept him as her husband. At the semi-annual exhibition of the Merchant Tailors’ Society in New VoTk the most startling innovation shown was dress suits of plum color, with velvet collar. At Charleston, W. Va., Mrs. M. M. Thompson, secretary of the State Historical Antiquarian Society, fell down the elevator shaft in the capitol and was killed. At St. Johns, N. F., the Board of Revenue has commenced an inquiry into charges of smuggling against five Whiteway members of the Assembly. The Government is supine. At Logansport, Ind., a- new telephone company, the Central Union, has forced rates down to sl2 p?r year for residences and $lB for business houses, with a prospect of a still further drop. At Denver, Colo., Millie Merz, aged 9, endeavored to kindle a lire in the kitchen stove by using kerosene. The can of oil exploded, the girl and her baby Ip-other, aged 2, being burned to death. At Indianapolis the doors of the vault in the Indiana National Bank Building, which was partially burned a few days ago, were opened and the contents found intact. The bank contained $2,000,000. At Kansas City Thomas Nolan, foreman of the Railroad Transfer Company, and two teamsters were arrested charged with robbing railroad companies of $20,OCk) worth of goods during the last two years. During a heavy storm near Clearfield, Pa,, the scale house of the Clearfield Fire Brick Company’s mine at Bigler was struck by lightning, killing Boyd Hpmmel, a miner, and stunning three others, Charles Gearhart, Ralph Rudifer and George Smeal. Henry Watson, one of the oldest and best-known hotel clerks in the West, dropped dead at Fort Scott, Kan. Rheumatism of the heart was the cause. Watson had charge of large hotels at Topeka, Kan., Jacksonville, and Springfield, 111., Nevada, Mo., and other cities. It is estimated by Ezra Meeker, the leading grower and shipper of hops In Washington, that the crop will not be more than half that of former years. Estimates place the crop at 10,000 to 12,000 bales, and 8,000 to 10,000 bales east of the Cascades. As a result of the low price growers are only paying 75 cents a box. At Lafayette, Ind., John Besser hit Morris Lewis with a board, causing his death. At Akron, Ohio, Charleß Gable fell from the top of a derrick fifty feet high and was instantly killed. , At Pittsburg, Pp., Morris Ruben, a Hebrew who Christianity and hnd been declare&ihsane, was freed by Judge White. At Ogontz, Pa., Mrs. Moo rehead, wife of the superintendent of the Northwood Cemetery, Oakland Station, and her daughter wars killed by a train. -•