Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

1. Fry, of Andres. I nd.. who sued the Wabash Railroad fur STO.OOO, alleging improper treatment at the hands of the company's physician when he was sick, lost his suit. —' ~ Louis Magnus was found frozen to death in his room in Quincy, 111. 110 was ; recently divorced 'from his wife and lived alone. He leaves a farm and several pieces of improved city real estate. Sheriff E. A. Baxter, of Springfield, 111., went to Sedalin. Mo.. with a requisition for Frt-d Brown, charged with forgery by the Fanners* National Bank of Springfield. Baxter was prevented ; from taking his man to Illinois by a writ of habeas corpus. 1, The sontli-bound Southern I’acifie passenger train on the coast division ran into a washout Sunday night twenty miles south of San Francisco,‘deraHfhg the locomotive and four ears. Engineer John Keyer was killed and several passengers Injured, but none seriously. Ex-President George F. Mngoun. of lowa College, is very ill at liis home in Griunell, lowa, and is not expected to live. He was the first president of lowa College and served for twenty years. He is a member of the American board, and is well known in religious and college circles East and West. At Swanse, Blount County. Ala., Frank Jones, superintendent of the Swanse Coal Company mines, shot and fatally wounded his wife, a young woman. IS) years of age. Jones was insanely, jealous of his wife. He escaped, armed, and defied anyone to arrest him. Jones has heretofore stood high. A double murder was committed at lioonah, Alaska, on account of the failure of leh-Ka-Ish, a inedieiue man of the lloonah tribe, to cure a young Indian. The medicine man blamed a young Indian, who immediately shot the doctor. Then the doctor'n cousin shot the slayer of the doctor. A few blankets squared the deal. Louie Graneitta. an artist, was found dead in bed at Washington. He had turned on the gas before retiring and was asphyxiated. Despondency was the probable cause for the act. Graneitta had nn to Saturday worked on the new congressional library building as a decorator, and was said to l>e an expert in’ his profession. He had been employed in Chicago and California. lie had traveled the world over and had exercised his talent In the principal cities. The suicide was about forty years of age and a Swiss by birth. , / James Gillespie was run over by a Panhandle train at Kiwood, lud.. and instantly killed. Advice? from Alaska say that the steamer Rustler picked up thirteen starving men in a rowboat. The men were on the way from Seward City to Juneau, and had not had food or water for two days. They acted like wolves. H. M. Hoon. professor of the high school in Mitchell. S. D., was thrown from a buggy and killed. Mr*. S. O. G. Hopkins was thrown from £.?•*“buggy in a runaway in Marshall, Mo, and was killed.