Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

By mistake, the little son of Bert Munkasky of Ashtabula, 0.. was given a bath in water containing caustic potash and he will probably die. Mrs. F. J. Jackson of Kansas City, charged with being an accomplice of Dr. G. W. Goddard in the murder of her husband last April, was discharged by the grand jury. At Keil. Wis., a 4-year-old daughter of William Oelhoff was perhaps fatally shot in the forehead by Johnny Stoever, who was carelessly handling his revolver. He didn’t know it was loaded. “The August excess of merchandise ami specie exports over imports was not far from $42,000,000, and the Septegiber excess will evidently be large, unless shipments of gold are considerable,” say It. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly review of trade. A jury in Judge Gary's court in Chicago returned a verdict giving Mrs. Estella L. Peacock $7,187 damages against the Chicago City Railway Company for personal injuries. Mrs. Peacock, who is colored, was hurt Feb. 5, 1895, while alighting from a cable ear. The car started suddenly, she testified, and she was thrown to the ground and injured internally. It is now known at Pensacola, Fla., that the steamer Sommers N. Smith landed at least three expeditions of men, arms and ammunition in Cuba during her twen-ty-six days' voyage from Mobile to Pensacola. Iler expeditions were without serious mishap, although she was once nearly captured by the gunboat Helena. “Dynamite Johnnie” O'Brien, it is said, commanded the Smith.

Lucretia Borgia is needed in South Dakota to abate the wolf nuisance. For the crude poisoners of the present day the animals are too wary. Stock has long suffered from their ravages. Big bounties were placed on their scalps. A few were shot and a few trapped, but the proportion was too small to make any appreciable decrease in the gross number. Then the stockmen tried poison. They smeared great pieces of raw meat with Strychnine and threw them where they thought the wolves would find them. But the failed to take effect. It is positively asserted that the animals licked the poison off, spit it out and devoured the meat with much relish. Engineer E. Hennett Mitehell was killed and Fireman John R. Cawley seriously injured by the explosion of a locomotive on the Northern Central Railway at Georgetown, a few miles north of Harrisburg, Pa. The victims were both residents of Harrisburg, and had been in the paaaenger service of the company for many, years. Consul General Pratt at Singapore reports to the State Department that a loan has been authorized there, to the amount of $5,000,000, to begin the construction of a railway system of about 370 miles 4d length in the Malay Peninsula.