Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Gerlache's antarctic expedition has sailed from Buenos Ayres to search for the south pole. Postmaster General Gary, in his annual report, will urge the establishment of postal savings banks. ■ Signora Verdi, wife of the celebrated composer, Giuseppe Verdi, now in his eighty-fourth year, is dead. Turkey and Bulgaria are nearing a crisis. The sultan has 100,000 soldiers gathered on the Bulgarian frontier. At Leipsic, Ohio, John Firestone killed his 6-year-old daughter Effie with a flatiron, while iu a delirium from typhoid fever. Albert Knceland, the St. Joseph (Mo.) bigamist, who has twelve living Wives, was sentenced to three years and six months in the penitentiary. The Countess Castellaue, daughter of Jay Gould, has purchased for 1,000,000 francs, a site at Paris for a permanent building for the annual charity bazaar. The. Austrian ambassador has presented an ultimatum to Turkey, demanding the dismissal of officials responsible for the expulsion of the Austrian merchant, Brazzafoli, from Messina. Mayor Olmsted and other prominent citizens of Spokane, Wash., who were officers and directors of the failed Citizens’ National Bank, have been arrested, charged with receiving deposits when they knew the bank was insolvent. A bold hold-up and attempted robbery of the postmaster at Delaware Bend, Chid, was made the other night. Postmaster James Fahey was making up the cash when he heard a knock at the door. He placed the money in his pocket and answered the summons. Two masked men entered and with leveled revolvers ordered him to hold up his hands. He promptly complied and one of the robbers endeavored to take the wallet from his pocket when the postmaster seized the cobber’s arm holding the revolver. A desperate battle ensued, and the robbers finally took to the woods. Willie B. Campbell was shot and killed by Policeman Oscar Duncan at Shelbyville, Ky. Campbell was an ex-policeman and very dangerous when drinking. He ■was intoxicated and boisterous and the officer asked him to keep quiet. He pulled bis pistol and snapped it at the officer’s face, when the latter shot him through tl-e heart. Rev. W. A. McWright, one of 11 ablest and most popular preachers in the State, has mysteriously disappeared from Downs, Kan. Mr. McW’right’s friends assert he is a victim of the morphine