Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

Elmer Martine was run over by a train at Lima, 0., and cut to pieces. At Hamburg, Ark., Ellis Morgan thought his brother was a fox and shot him. At Guthrie, O. T., C. P. Crawford of Chicago sues for SIO,OOO for false imprisonment. At Youngstown, 0., David Stewart, a flagman, left $8,500 to the Catholic Church. At Milan, Mo., Ira Sexton, who murdered Nathau Stork, was sentenced to be hanged April 1. A new patriotic society was organized in New York Saturday. It wilt be known as the American Flag Association, and its membership will be made up from committees selected from the various patriotic societies of the country. Its object will be to protect the ting from desecration. Charles H. Hoyt, the playwright, who is the defendant in n suit on trial in the Superior Civil Court in Boston, brought by Edwin Bates, musicinn and publisher, for SIO,OOO damages for slander, defamation of character and assault, must pay Bates $1,500. Mr. Hoyt admitted that he called Mr. Bates a thief, but declared that he meant it in the sense of a plagiarist. The French opera house in New Orleans, where the Knights of Mithrias ball, a swell carnival function, was being held, caught fire from the electrical apparatus in connection with the tableaux. A terrible panic ensued. Three women fainted, and but for the action of two officers, who, kuowing the extent of the tire, closed the doors, many would have been crushed. The fire was extinguished without any trouble, but the ball was broken up just iu the midst of its splendor. Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, died at the Imperial Hotel, New York City. , Thomas Bryson, a pioneer of the fifties and prominent in political and lodge circles of Montitelier, Ind„ is dead. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, In 1814. Tecumseh Biuld, a cripple, aged 20 years, committed suicide at Defiance, 0., because of unrequited love, s Byron Billings, aged 23 years, shot and killed his father, 11. M. Billings, hotelkeeper, at Leavenworth, Kan. The Burbank block in Pittsfield, Mas*., was burned. The loss on building and contents will aggregate $100.(KM), with in* suVance of from $50,000 to $05,000. A sub-committee has been appointed by the banking committee of the National House of Representatives to prepare a currency reform measure.