Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The pon'tn.in bridge across the Missouri river at t'hatbberlaiu. S. D.. has been completed and'the structure opened for traffic. E. R. Tylbr. proprietor of the Brooks House at Brattleboro. Vt.. and his wife were drowned While bathing iii the Connecticut river, • Abraui Tinkey, postmaster, and Robert Stark, merchant, dii-d at Sequoia, Wash., from the effects of drinking alcohol made from wood. AHtt-rt Bridgeman, of Moofehottse. Mo., abducted from his home in 1894. was found at Ligansport. Ind., by his grandftinter and wijl be returned to his parents, d;; , X cornerwl bicycle thief, w'lio hafl within two days left two stolen, wheels in a ihop at Providence. R. 1., plunged throug'h a large plate glass window and shot two men who stood in his way of escape. There were numerous prostrations find five deaths during the hot spell,nt Cincinnati. The victims were: Belle Bright, a laundry girl; Mary Brow.ti, infant: John Crone, moulder; Barney Dickbors awl John Schulte; tanners. Lightning set’fire to the barn on the dairy farm of William MeGregor, west of Findlny, (>.. and the structure was destroyed. It contained fine Jersey cows, and all efforts to save the animals were unavailing and they were cremated. «