Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Mrs. Charles 'Woolever committed suicide at Willoughby, O. A rumor is current in Berlin that China has ceded Kaiochou to Germany. W. I>. Talle, secretary of the-Belleville Investment Company of St. Louis, has disappeared. It is reported that Canada has proposed to the Vatican the establishment of a nunciature at Ottawa. The body of Charles Middlesletter, 19 years of age, was found at Dayton, 0., with a bullet hole in the head. Mrs. Emma Schumacher of Kansas City died front wounds inflicted by masked nten, who robbed her grocery store. Decemberwheat was carried up to $1.09 at Chicago the other day, the highest figure since the famous corner of 1891. Luther L. Miller, a prominent business man of Myerstown, Fa., committed suicide rather than submit to arrest and face a charge of forgery. M. F. Barry, purporting to come from Chicago, died at Senola, Ga„ from the effect of morphine, taken with the intention of ending his life. Newell Paine, proprietor of a Boston drug store, wns held up and robbed in his place of business by highwaymen, who then beat him into insensibility. Ilayti is reported to be on the verge of a revolution as a protest against the Government for its alleged weakness in yielding to the demands of Germany. The little daughter of John Meyer was burned to death at Lima, 0., by her dress catching fire and her mother was horribly burned in attempting to extinguish the flames. Charles E. Mueser, late city-clerk of Durango, Colo., who gave himself up in Chieago, has pleaded guilty to embezzling public funds and wns sentenced to twenty months in the penitentiary. The pension appropriation bill to be offered in Congress will contain an important amendment. This provides that hereafter no woman who marries an old soldier will, in the event of the soldier’s death, be entitled to a widow’s pension. The special session of the Creek council at Muskogee, I. T., adjourned after having accomplished little more than the appointment of a committee of three to confer with the leaders of the other tribes regarding Chief Isparhecher’s plan for the consolidation of the five tribes as a step preliminary to statehood or a more advanced territorial government. Mrs. Emma Schumacher, keeper of a grocery at Kansas City, Mo., was fatally shot by robbers, who demanded the cash in her money drawer. Mrs. Schumacher drew a revolver and was shot down by the robbers. The two men then escaped. James Carrington, under arrest at Sioux Falls, S. D., for the murder of Roy Erickson, has confessed, but claims he killed Erickson in self-defense. Granville Loud, senior member of the firm of Loud, Claridge & Co., Baltimore, Md., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head.