Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

As the result of a conference between Elbridge T. Gerry and President Itoose* velt it is probable the New York police will nbandon the employment of children to obtain evidence against saloon keepers. The czar has promised to stand as godfather to the Bulgarian Prince Boris (son of Prince Ferdinand, ruler of Bulgaria) in his conversion to the Uussiun church, and afterwards to appoint a Russian minister to Sofia. The steamer reported ashore at New Inlet, N. C., proves to bet the American steamer James Woodall with a cargo of sugar and molasses from New Orleans, La., for Baltimore. Md. The crew, of ten men were.saved by the life savers. 1 John Rodgers, who confesses to havipg been implicated in the robbery of the imstoffiee at Itockport, 111., while left momentarily alone in one of the rooms of tli'C t'nited States district attorney’s office at Springfield, stepped out of a door, snpposed to be locked, and escaped. William D. Himes, vice-president Of the Gettysburg National Bank at New Oxford, Pa., is dead at tire age of 84 years. Mr. Himes was among the. most intimate personal friends of Thaddeus Stevens in his early career in Adams County aud was associated with him in various business enterprises.