Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Josiah Quincy will be renominated for Mayor by the Democrats of Boston. At Winchester, Ivy., James Harris and Warren Burch were killed in a wreck on the Louisville and Nashville Road. The sbeameT Gogebic, bound from Chicago to Lake Erie without cargo to load coal, went ashore upon North Manitou Island, off the luiehigan coast, during a heavy snowstorm. M. W. Henderson was appointed receiver of the Willamette iron works at Portland, Ore. The liabilities of the company are about $50,000, aside from the capital stock, which is $300,000. MaryLuxton, aged 22 years, shot and fatally wounded Ole Halverson, aged 25 years, at Inkster, N. I)., as the result of a lovers’ quarrel. She tried to kill herself, but Halverson held her arm. Mrs. Mary Dice was granted a divorce at Kinston, Mo., and was married to Rev. Jacob Dyer before the decree was recorded. The judge, disliking such unseemly haste, revoked the divorce decree. Bud Scott, late of Highlands, Kan., was found dead under a viaduct leading across the Union Pacific tracks'to an implement warehouse in Omaha, Neb. It was thought he had fallen from the viaduct to the track below. Investigation developed that he was murdered. scalp wounds were found on his head and his skull was crushed, as by a blow from a hammer. H. Lowther, an Englishman, and nephew of Lord Isvnsdale, accompanied by J. B. Heifon of London, have gone to Fort Edmonton, where as representatives of an English company they will establish a fast stage line to Dawson CRy. The route is an entirely new one, and will be less than 1,200 miles. The line will be in operation early next spring and the trip will occupy less than twenty days. Samuel F. Tanner, late captain of Company C, Seventeenth infantry, Ohio National Guard, who was recently indicted for embezzling the company’s funds, was sentenced at Toledo to the penitentiary for three years. Tanner had embezzled the rent checks dne the county commissioners, and also the company’s funds, the amount aggregating $540. The 1898 congress of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Chicago. Ernest Eggesiecker, a farmer, died of hydrophobia at the Baptist sanitarium in St. Louis, Mo. He was bitten by a dog in September. Charles C. McCloud, a manufacturer, died at the Worcester (Mass.) city hospital of a self-inflicted wound. He cut his throat two nights before. F. N. Neal, ex-judge of Union County, .committed suicide by shooting at his home 'in Jnunction City, Ark, He was 72 years .old.