Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The bicyclists of Ohio have scored a victory over the railroads. After a vigorous fight Senator Lading's bill requiring railroads to carry bicycles as baggage passed the House and is now a law. Mrs. Anna Ware Treadway Winch Witts, who is 78 years old- and worth $150,000, commenced an action at New Jfork for absolnte divorce from her husband, Archie Wilts. The complaint charges Wilts with various illegal escapades. At Perry; Ok.. Dr. Frank Belchamber*. a weaJthy Enreka Springs, Ark., druggist, has filed suit for divorce from his wife. He says Mrs. Belchmnbers who lives in Atcliison, Kan., has abandoned him because he would not send his two diuighters by a former wife away from home and give her all his property. At Manchester, Conn., fire Friday destroyed property of the value of $60,000. The heaviest loss was on the tobacco warehouse of Harkman Bros. The origin of the fire is brileved to have been incendiary. ,■"* w-