Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Henry D. Oppenheim, aged 55 years, a broker and commission man of St. Louis, committed suicide'by taking poison. De■pondency fromi»by«ieal ailments is given as the cause. • f A severe storm of a cyclonic nature passed over Clark, S. D.. Thursday night. The House of G. H. Liudland, twelve miles southwest, was taken up by tlie wind and carried a distance of fifty feet and totally destroyed. There were ten persons in the house and Mrs. Liudland is reported killed, while other members of the family are more .or less, injured. Lightning struck in fiva places and upwards of two inches of rain fell in three hours. Ferdinand Schumacher, the oatmeal king, and president of the American Cereal Company, assigned at Akrop, Ohio, turning over for the benefit of his creditors his entire property. The assets are -estimated at $2,000,000, and the liabilities will reach $1,000,000. The assignment was caused by heavy losses in the Marseilles Land and Water Power Company and the Illinois River Paper Company, of Marseilles, 111., which went to the wall in consequence of the failure of the chief stockholder. At Ashland, Wis., flames laid waste" property amounting to SOOO,OOO Saturday. It was the worst lire in the history of the town, utterly wiping out the leading mill plant in the city and throwing hundreds of men out of work. In the •hort space of two hours nearly $.">00,000 worth of property was destroyed by the flames, three men had been driven by the flames only to meet death by drowning. It is reported that four others have met the same fate. Shores’ mill, with docks, worth $400,000; the main dock of Durfee’s plant, with 18,900,000 feet of lumber, were consumed by flames. Shores’ loss is nearly $300,000. W. R. Durfce loses about $30,000 ou the dock. The schooner yacht Serkara, owned by S. 8. Foley of California, went ashore on Londoner Reef, on the coast, Thursday night, and has gone to pieces. The crew escaped by rowing ashore. The yacht cost $20,000, and is a total loss. In the lockers were a quantity of silverware and about $2,000 worth of California wrne, which was also lost. Congressman E. D. Cooke, of Chicago, is seriously ill at Washington. Hardy & Co., of Richmond. Ind.. hardware denlers, have failed. Xo statement of liabilities and assets. This is the Iburtli fallure iu the place' * *—•* —;