Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

In Cincinnati, 0., George Sheehan, a peddler, shot his wife in a cheap lodging house and then shot himself. Hungarian - liberals have adopted Banffy’s bill for the provisional extension of the agreement between Austria and Hungary. Joseph Ladue, founder and chief owner of Dawson City, Alaska, was married at Plattsburg, N. Y„ to Miss Katharine Mason of Schuyler Falls. An infernal machine containing a genuine dynamite bomb was discovered in the building in which the United States consulate is located at Havana. Spain is on the eve of a crisis, according to a London dispatch, which says that not only is the Sagdsta Government threatened, but the monarchy also. The Spanish Government is negotiating with the Armstrongs for a cruiser of 4,300 tons, said to be worth $1,500,000, built for Japan, but which Japan does not want. At Ripley, W. Va., John Morgan was hanged for murdering three members of the Green family. Surrounding the scaffold in the vast field were about 10,000 men, women and children. Another sound money convention of business men has been called to meet at Indianapolis Jan. 25 to consider the report of the monetary commission appointed at the convention last January. Theod-ote Durrant, the condemned San Franeiaeo murderer, says: “I will never be I know that help is coming more, as it has always come to me before in my extremity.” This statement has caused a revival of the opinion that he will commit suicide if possible. Fire, said to be the work of incendiaries, destroyed the court house at Ardmore, I. T., consuming the written testimony in Indian citizenship cases, affecting 1,500 persons, besides many valuable court records. The fire also destroyed the implement house of the K. A. Kime Company, causing an additional loss of $40,000, with $15,000 insurance. The loss on the court house cannot be estimated.

Beverly Ward, Jr., heir to a large estate and one of the most popular of New York’s society young men, was found dead in the Baltusrel Golf club house, near Short Hills, N. J. That he ended his life by poison because the young woman he loved and whom he had hoped to marry is about to wed another, is the story toid by his father. Senator Gorman, it is reported, will locate in New York City nt the close of his present term, and has been offered the presidency of a new security company which Richard Croker is said to be organizing. William Terriss, the well-known English actor, was assassinated as be was entering the stage door of the Adelphi Theater in London. The murderer, clad in a long cbmk, rushed at the actor as he was stepping across the pavement from his cab and stabbed him just below the heart.