Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — MINOR NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending Dee, 3, James C. Fox, the United Staten eonsul at Antigua, Colombia, died of yellow fever. Joseph Heimean and h i 3 daughter and Ernst Neiver were killed hy the cars at Air Line Junction,;o. During a dance at Shelby, Ind., John and Frank Lattey were both shot and fatally woundeti by Frank |'h4ffi-iv —.-— A passenger train ran into an open -Bwitch at Preble, N-. Y„ killing the engineer and fatally injuring the fireman. The German government is taking steps to prevent the growing emigration of the younger generation to America. _ T " Ly rias lain ten his back for seven years an- - able to move a joint, died near Bryan, Tex. In Dooly county, Ga., Tony Sutton and his brother Henry, who killed an officer sent to arrest them, were lynched hy a mob. _ William Bennett, a hero of the Crimean war and of the Sepoy mutiny in India, died at his home in Chicago, -aged- 7 years/ = .

A. W. Wayman, senior bishop of the African Methodist church in the United States, dropped dead from paralysis at his home in Baltimore. After 18 months of labor the commission named by the last general assembly to revive the code of Jaws of lowa bfis completed its work. Knigliia of Labor in Montreal, Ontario and Quebec decided to secede from the. general assembly and fqrm a purely Canadian order. William Cobb, a centenarian, died at King’s Mountain, N. C. A peculiarity 6f Bis Twas to devour'a chicken every clay for the past 50 years. It was announced that the territory of Oklahoma at the session of the 54th congress would knock for admission into the sisterhood of states. Col. Smith A. Whitfield, flrst assistant postmaster generalduring the latler part or Fresident fiarrison’a term, died in Chicago, aged 49 years. A conference of senators favorable to the free coinage of silver was held in . Washington and it was decided to keep up the agitation for free coinage. Orville Eals killed his wife and her paramour, John Fields, at Browningsville, Ky., and was himself killed by a posse who attempted to arrest him. The Northern Pacific steamship Strathneviß, en route from Victoria, B. C., to Yokohama with about 125 Chinese passengers, a crew of 50 and 3,000 tons of general cargo, was given up as lost.