Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

7 ~lh~ a railroad accident in the provTiielT of Minas, Brazil, many passengers we’,e killed. Among those who lost their lives was Bishop Lasagana, chief of the Salesian order of monks in South America.* Nicolaus Augusta Buello, Venezuela’s new consul general, has arrived in New York. He relieves Luis Forsyth, for whom he brings an appointment from his government to be consul general at Philadephia. What threatened to be a serious riot at Ishkoota mines, a few miles below Birmingham, Ala., was promptly quelled by Perry Watkins, the mine boss, who took two and probably three lives in accomplishing the result. Much excitement and intense feeling prevailed between political factions in the Cherokee Nation, and bloodshed is likely to result. The conditions are similar to those of eight years ago, when many men were killed. The national party is contesting the election of Sam Mayes as chief on the Downing ticket, and the Indians are collecting in the capital armed and determined to aid their friends. A matrimonial advertisement caught the fancy of John Conley, a farmer at Stenseland, Va., and he went to Chicago to marry Mrs. Mary Sullivan. He was led to believe, he says, that she was young, but when he saw her he changed his mind. To drown his remorse he began sampling West Side liquor and was arrested. He had been making such a disturbance Justice Kehoe fined him "$3 and costs. At Omaha the District Coijxt refused Bishop Bonacum’s petition for an injunction restraining the priests from occupying Tecumseh church property. At Cincinnati, J. F. Woodward, forger; B. F. Ford, Stewart Pucoy, John Foster, and- James Clark, burglars, and Albert Gerkens, pickpocket, escaped from the county jail. William Zias, of Lincoln County, W. Va., left home with a 10-year-old bay mare valued at s(k>. In the evening when he reached home he had S6B and the same horse. He had traded eight times ■nd finally got his own horse back. Near Wilsonville, Neb., nn unknown man called at the home of Albert Applegate and shot him down. Applegate told a neighbor last summer he had caused the separation of a man and wife in Colorado twenty years ago, and the man had ■worn to follow and kill him. The murderer is presumed to be thia man.