Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Emperor William is now in Hungary with the Emperor Francis Joseph. Five men were seriously burned by molten metal in a stove factory at Leeds, lowa. * Rebel tribesmen in India have surrounded Fort S'habkadr and are gathering at Hangu, Mrs. Antonio Terry, former wife of the man who is infatuated with Sibyl Sanderson, is dead in Faris. The Tulane Athletic Club at New Orleans offers a $20,000 purse for a fight between Fitzsimmons and Corbett. The report that Colombia has granted to England a concession to complete the Panama Canal is positively denied. A fierce hurricane swept over Yokohama city-and harbor, causing great damage to property and considerable loss of life. Claims are being staked out in the heart of Victoria. B. C., by men who say there is a ledge of goldbearing rock under the city. Mrs. George Smith of Churchville, N. Y., was shot and fatally wounded by burglars and her husband was bound and compelled to give up $1,360. Seven men were killed and six injured in a freight wreck on the Iron Mountain Railroad at Hanzom, I. T. All the victims were stealing a ride in a car. Tramps undertook to rob an express car on the Chicago and Erie road near Foraker, Ohio, but were driven off by messengers after a battle with pistols; - Five men were badly scalded by the breaking of machinery on the torpedo boat Rodgers during her trial trip. Chief Engineer J. fi. Edwards, U. S. N., was among the injured. Lieutenant General Baron von Shack of Russia committed suicide because he has been compelled to abandon the German Lutheran faith and join the Russian orthodox church. The sultan has ordered a commission, composed of two Mussulmans, three Armenians and one Greek, to visit the Armenian vilayets which have been the chief sufferers from the massacres and raise funds to rebuild the Armenian schools, churches and monasteries and to build orphanages. Clark Graves, an old soldier of Martinsville, Ind., has refused longer to accept a pension because the rheumatism for which he received it has disappeared. The United Labor League of Philadelphia has started a fund for the prosecution of Sheriff Martin and the deputies who shot the unarmed miners on the Latimer road. ** Miss Harriet Sheldon, 82 years old, and Miss Mithilda Sheldon, 86, were burned to death in Lynn, Mass. Mrs. Ida Bolley, wife of a fanner near Lagrange, Ind., bunt a blood vessel while |D a fit of laughter ~