Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

At Evansville, Ind., George Rubright, a weak-minded young man. while in church suddenly attacked Miss Carrie Damn and stabbed het - fatally. Rubright was arrested. An alleged infernal machine was found on the doorsteps of the Spanish Minister's house at Washington early Sunday morning. The machine was taken away by the police and will be examined. file device is said to have been a good-sized box;, filled with a granulated substance. " Safeblowers broke into the office of A. M. Lewin & Co., lumber dealers at Cincinnati, and instead of blowing the safe open blew it shut. The robbers evidently did not try the safe door and went to Work as If it were locked. They drilled a hole under the combination, breaking two drills, then filled the hole with powder. ‘The explosion blewdhe combination to and locked the door. The robbers abandoned the job, and when Mr. Lewin arrived he had to send for a safe expert to open the door. Sir Julian Goldsmid. the Hebrew philanthropist of London, is critically ill. At Nevada. Mo., in the suit of E. W. Clark against Mrs. CaAdine Simmons for $50,000 for breach of promise of marriage, the jury. wrts out fifteen minutes and- retmmeda v<uuliet- for the de fen4a nt, It was the first suit of the kind ever begun in' Vernon County. Col. Prior,, of‘British Columbia, has accepted the portfolio of Controller of Customs, with absent in the Cabinet. * Senator Quay Jie would not accept a noinnin tionyor tliftfPresiaency if it were offered ifiim on a gold plate. The steam header in a day coach-burst while the train was passing through Sterling. Kan.,‘ badly scalding Mrs. R. M. Honey and her two children. Other pa-s----.seugers escaped injury. Mrs. Honey and her children were talreu to a house near by, where they are being taken care of. Their injuries are serious