Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The German bundesruth has adopted the sugar bill as amended by the roiclistag. Ex-United States Senator William A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, died Friday morning at New York." Ex-Senator Wallace was born in Clearfield. Pa.. Nov. 28, 1827. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 18tS2 he was elected to the State Senate, and served by re-election? until 1871, when he was made speaker of that body. He frequently served as chairman of political conventions, and was elected United States Senator for the term commencing in 1875 and ending in 1881. Mrs. Hanna Priestly, aged 94 years, died at Uallipolis. Ohio.' She had been a constant smoker and tea drinker all her life. Among the items in the sundry civil appropriation bill which have ls*en agreed to by both houses is a pnragrn’i>h providing for tlie ('(instruction of two new revenue cattem for the great lakes. Dr. W. D. McGoun. secretary of the Fahnestock White I .end Company, a capitalist who devoted most of his time to historical research and writing, committed suicide in the woods near I.igonier, Pa,,- presumably while insirne