Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

At Glenville, Ohio, Carl Tonquietz is under aiTest on suspicion of having eausred the death of his infant child by starvaPatrick Grant, father of Robert Grant, the novelist, a successful merchant at Boston, Mass., died at the age of SO years. Rhode Island’s Grand Army men will erect a monument to the Roman Catholic soldiers of the State who fell in the civil war. , James A. Jordan, indicted at Grand Rapids for making false affidavits on mileage and expenses as pension examiner, lias disappeared. The New York Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction of Bat Shea for the murder of Robert Ross at the Troy spring elections of 1894. Flobda in the Agua Fria and Gila Rivers have caused serious breaks in the bridges of the Santa Fe Railroad and Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad. Why does the bloomer girl still persist in carrying her purse in her hand? She husn’t yet learned one of the principal advantages of bifurated externals. Near Twohig Station. Texas. JT Shaw, a ranchman, two Mexican men and a Mexican child were shot dead by thieves who had stolen a yearling steer from Shaw. * Two men who tried to work the "threecard monte” game on Benjamin Wilson, a well-to-do farmer living near Peru, Ind., were driven off at the point of a revolver. At Jasper, Ind., Andrew Comings was fined for breaking the leg of John Burton while trying to separate the latter and his wife, who were engaged in a family fight. George B. Holmes and Ella May Fee* ria eloped from Lexington, Ky.. and were married by Magistrate Hauae at Jeffersonville, Ind. Tha bride was a pupil o i Hampton* (College.