Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — Told in a Few Dines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Dines.

The linseed oil trust, incorporated ia Illinois, has qualified to do business io Ohio. Three men robbed the postmaster at Belmont, Neb., of S4OO in government bonds. , Harry Wells, charged with involuntary manslaughter, was convicted after a four days’ trial at Shoals, Ind. The lamp chimney manufacturers of theUnited States have signed the wage scaledemanded by the workers. Two negro tramps murdered Jefferson. Batey and seriously wounded William Davis, brakeman on the Illinois Centra? Railroad, near Carbondale, 111., and escaped. Charles Wood, a Racine, Wis., police* man, has secured judgment for salary held back because the Mayor refused to appoint him. He remained on duty under the civil service law; A petition of the temperance people of Emporia, Kan., asking for a special grand jury to investigate alleged viola-, tions of the liquor law has been stolen from the office of Judge Culver.