Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Erie train Xoi 5, while running; forty miles an hour, struck an open switch ami collided with a locomotive in the New Vork and Pennsylvania yards at.Meadrille, Pa. Fifteen persons were hurt. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of James Parker, aged 18, a sou of the late Thomas Parker. ex-Mayor of ILebanon, lad., for alleged abduction of Ora, the pretty 111-year-old daughter of Barton Goldsbury. 'A dispatch was received by the Boston < I lobe Monday afternoon from Batabano, Cuba, saying that the insurgent forces had Captured Havana. It was impossible to either confirm or discredit this report. Tlie dispatch is claimed to have been retired by the cable operator-front Havana and is as follows: “Cubans have Captured the <-Ity-*-Havann. Morro castle alone holds out. General Campos has “ Here the dispatch ended abruptly, as <-able communication between Havana and Batabano was cut off. The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard says the miners there say that the Emperor has ordered Prince of Prussia to a fortnight's confinement in bis own room, owing to his behavior toward his wife. Princess Louise Sophie of Bchleswig-Holsteift, after the skating nsnayaat nt jJabdatiiHipay - wfahrii innrrtyr resulted in her being drowned. Col. Thomas W. Knox, who becahie distinguished as a newspaper correspondent in the civil war, and who since that time bus written many stories for the young, died at New York. He was G 1 years of W»- «v . 1