Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

It is reported that a shoe salesman representing the Standard Shoe Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, was burned to death in a Cripple Creek hotel during the last fire. George Anderson, colored, of TerreHaute, was instantly killed by Robert Lore at Indianapolis. Ind., and the latteh made his escape. A quarrel began about five cents. Mary, the wife of William Shore, of Huntington, W. Va„ leaped fifty feet from a railroad bridge into the Klkhorn river to escape an approaching engine. She was rescued, but will die. The pressmen of the Rockford, 111., Mitten and Hosiery Company have gone on a ■trike for increased wages. Fire in the Clothing house of S. Lazarus, Sons & Co., of Columbus, Ohio, was extinguished soon after being discovered, but the loss by smoke and wnter Will be considerable. James Nixon shot and killed Dempsey Brown, his brother-in-law, in a family quarrel at Austin, Texas. Brown in his dying agony returned the lire with a double-barreled shotgun, fatallv wounding Nixon.