Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Fire in thg coal sheds of the Boston and Maine Railroad at the rear of the State prison at Charlestown, Mass., did .'fSO.iMHJ damage. Rev. J. Morganwell, of the First Baptist Church, died nt Fort Worth, Texas, of apoplexy. He was one of the leading ministers of Texas. The United States gunboat Bennington has finished taking on coal at San Francisco aud will sail for Callao in the wake of the Philadelphia. The canal? of the State of New York were officially closed by order of tho Superintendent of Public Works. Active work on the improvements is to be begun at once. At a meeting of the Royal Society at London medals were Prof. Roentgen for his ray discoveries, and to. Prof. Moissan for his discovery of the isolation of the element flourina.