Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

John F. Farley has been made chief of the Denver, Col., police force. Rev. George Reader has practically been expelled from Boston University for marrying a couple in a lion’s cage. Lizzie Burke and Bertha Ingle were probably fatally burned by the explosion of a gas generator, which also wrecked the Piqua, Ohio, hosiery factory. Major S. A. Mulhauser, of Cleveland, who was reported from Honolulu as having tried to commit suicide, has arrived in San Francisco and says the shooting was purely accidental. Andrew Vaughn, a well-known farmer near Pineville, Ky., and his wife were found dying at their home by neighbors, and it is supposed Vaught shot his wife and himself while temporarily insane. It is said Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, the eminent Unitarian divine of Brooklyn, will Blithe pulpit of the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, Cal., for a period of three months early in the coming year.