Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Weyler, it seems, drew a blank and Spain a Blanco. The Central railroad buildings at Macon, Ga., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $75,000. A. C. Deuel, aged 75, for forty years superintendent of the public schools of Urbana, Ohio, was killed by a freight train. President Gompcrs has issued a call for the seventeenth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor at Nashville, Tenn., to begin Dec. 13. The auxiliary yacht Utowana has been sold to Allison V. Armour of Chicago, a member of the New York Yacht Club, who has for years owned the steam yacht Ituna. The coroner's jury in the qiqueset upon the death of Cashier Struble of Shepherd, Mich., rendered a verdict of suicide. The verdict was reached after eighteen hours* deliberation; Forest fires near Austin. Pa., are under control after burning $200,000 worth of timber. The northern part of Cayuga County, N. Y., is ablaze, and great damage has been done. The complaint of Mortimer Hendricks of New York City against the Manhattan Railway Company, nllbging that its directors had unlawfully'paid out $3,000,000, has been dismissed. United States Commissioner Tunison decided to hold Karl A. Karlsehn, who shipped as carpenter on the British ship Favonius to Rio Janeiro from Pensacola, Fla., charged with the burning of the ship at sea. John Harris shot and killed George Kebo, an escaped convict, at Keokuk, lowa. Kebo is Harris' son-in-law, but was not living with his wife. Kebo broke into the house and fired at Harris, who killed him. The Cleveland express on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad ran into a shifting engine in the West Park, Allegheny, Pa. Ross Griffin, fireman, was fatally hurt and a number of passengers were cut and bruised.