Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Dr. J. D. Buck, of Cincinnati, will snooped the late W. Q. Judge as president of the Tbeosophical Society of America. Negroes are holding a Frenchman in confinement near Columbia, O. T.„ and declare rhey will not reletve him until France accedes to the dcrtiands of ex-* Consul Waller. A severe gale swept over the channel, causing considerable damage to shipping, and it is feared that a lttrge steamer which was in distress off the Goodwin sands has foundered. The Egyptian debt commission have paid the first installment from the reserve fund,, amounting to' $1,000,000. of the money required for' the exjtenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile. 'Fred a raolder of West Columbus, 0., aged 21, Sunday afternoon shot his wife, who is but 17,,anil then stood before a mirror and cut his throat with a razor. Gorrell died almost instantly, but bis wife will recover. Jealousy was the cause of tile affair. At Uichmond, Ky„ Friday morning, a couple from la>e County, Virginia, obtained a marringe liccnsp. The groom, Hiram H. Ely, is 15 years old, while the bride, Mrs. Jane Ely, hie sister-in-law. is 40, fat, and has four children. An order from the boy’s mother was produced which granted permission for his marriage. 1 A sharp earthquake shock was felt at Rawlins, Wyo., at 10 o’clock Saturday Bight. -- Fire destroyed the- -Bpr rag field, ~ Mo:. Grand Opera House. The building cost $75,000 and was insured for f 25,000.