Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES.

While unloading logs at Uniondale. Ind.. Henry Stevenson, foreman of the Adams Stave Works, was instantly killed by a log .. E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of thr-Uaifad_. States District Court, was shot and killed by his son, Robert Campbell, in Nashville. Tenn. Young Campbell has been regarded as mentally unsound for some time. A report is current that twelve or fifteen Buffalo men were lost onThe ice outside the. harbor during Wednesday night's storm. They went out to fish through the ice and were blinded by the squall that arose. Coachman Bernard MackelL formerly employed by Ileuty G. Hilton Jr., and his wife, Sylvia Gerrish Hilton, of New York, hasbrought suit against the latter to recover SSOO promised him for interposing when her husband attacked her. At Gurley, Ala., Dick Childress, a notorious desperado, was shot and killed by Policeman Djck tovim- CMdress was sentenced to the State penitentiary for six years about eight years ago. He was charged with comjfltcrfy in burning the jail at Gurley, cremating two men.

Samuel Clary, aged 88. died at Flemingsburg, N. Y. Clary had in his possession a hat which he had worn in the log cabi^,c;-iß>pai®B.,.<afl<S4O, when Gen. AAV 11. Harrison was elected President. Mr. Clary’s friends', in compliance with his dying request, will send the hat to Mrs. Dimmick on her marriage to ex-President Harrison. A passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ran into a buggy containing Richard Steele aud his brother, John Steele, near AA'inchester, Kan. The vehicle was demolished and both men were instantly killed. They *were among the most prominent farmers in Central Kentucky and Were connected with the best families. Both were married men and leave families. Mrs. Nannie Field, wife of Marshall Field, the Chicago Merchant, died Sunday morning at her villa in Nice, Alpes Maritimes, France. Mr. Field received a dispatch Saturday night (Stating that Mrs. Field was very low with peritonitis, but at the time was inclined to think that his wife's condition had been exaggerated. A second dispatch received Sunday after noon announced her death. For the first time since Sept. 7, 1895, the gold reserve Friday passed the SIOO,000,000 point, the exact figures 1 ' being $105,092,843. After deducting Thursday’s withdrawals the true amount will be approximately $104,000,000. The total amount of gold so far received and reported on account of bond purchases is $05,000,000. A bank at McLouth, Kan., was entered and the safe blown open, Ithe robbers securing $3,500 in cash. The burglars then stole a team and drove to Lawrence, where they bought tickets for an eastbound train. At Boston Angus D. Gilbert was banged Friday for the murder of Alice Sterling. ■ <hild, April 10, 1895. Jacob Miller, marshal of AA'est Carrollton, Ohio, has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary tor ehooting a bieyelbft who «as ridinf en ’lm village aidegralks last sunuxtsr.