Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

After nest week the weather forecast will l»e stamped ou.fhe backs of all letters; that pass through the Washington postoffice. Thomas A. Edison has discovered that by using X rays in connection with plates coated with tungstate of calcium he can see through the human hand at a distance of fifteen feet. A hurricane passed over Hart’s Creek Talley, fifty nples south of Huntington. W. Va.. Thursday night. Buildings were blown down and immense damage was reported. It was the heaviest windstorm ever known in that section. The Uev. Dr. George W. Gray, of the Epworth Home Settlement Mission in Chicago, has interested a number of religious and charitable men and women of Baltimore. Md., in the project, nnd steps will be taken to locate a mission in "the tenement section of that city. Private Allen of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment, shot and fatally wounded IVivaTe Daniel M. Call of the same company in the post quarters at Fort Sheridan, 111. While being disarmed Allen was then accidentally shot with his own revolver, stud he will' also probably die. , At Parkersburg. W. Va., William Sprouse, fireman on the steamer King, was horribly burned, but by his heroism prevented an explosion and saved the lives of the passengers. He blew off one valve and had turned the other when the first ouC'blew out steam and hot water. Sprouse held to the second, however, with the scalding water and steam pouring over him until he had turned it off. He fell exhausted; nearly blinded and terribly burned. The town of Cabanas, on the north coast of Pinar del Bio, Cuba, has been reduced to ashes by the'insurgents. It liad 1,300 inhabitants, churches, a town hall and two school houses. The rebels are reported to have four camps in that immediate Tieinity, The insurgents are forming a special corps to operate in the country districts. , 'i . Tlie Central Vermont Railroad has been put into the. hands of receivers: President Edward C. Smith and Charles M. Hayes, general manager of the Grand Trunk. Papers were filed in Boston, New York State and Brattlebo*- on ■Vurday.