Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

G. B. Saunders, 52 years old, a commercial traveler from Chicago, died of heart disease at Dallas, Tex. A train ou the South Park and Hill Top Railroad, near Denver, Colo., was blown from the track and rolled down an embankment. No one was hurt. An uprising is reported at Tocunto, in the State of Lara. Venezuela. Several engagements have occurred, the government troops winning all of them. Representative John Simpkins of the 13th district Massachusetts, died at his residence in Washington, of heart failure, induced by gastric complications. The permanent exhibition of American manufactures was opened at Caracas. Venezuela. President Andrade attended the opening. There was much enthusiasm. The Mullins boarding-house at Butte, Mont., was destroyed by fire; 175 lives were endangered, but only one person. Peter Shovliu, was injured. The loss is $25,(XX). At Talladega, Ala., Walter. Johnston shot and killed his sister. The shooting was accidental. The hall took effect in the girl’s temple and death was instantaneous. Judge Hollister at Cincinnati sentenced Sherwood 8. Cunning to fire years in the penitentiary for embezzling S2B,(XX) from the First National bank. Cunning was receiving teller. He pleaded guilty. The report of the court of inquiry, which has been made public, shows that the Maine was destroyed by the explosion of a mine under the port side of the battleship. This caused two magazines to explode and add to the destruction. While the crew of the sealing steamer Greenland was traveling about the floes in search of seals, a storm arose. The members of the crew who were on the ice could not regain the vessel. Forty-eight men perished, and between fifty and sixty were so badly frost-bitten that the amputation of one or more of their limbs will have to be undergone by all of them. Twenty-five bodies were recovered. Patrick Murphy, a miner at Butte, Mont,, was arrested for most atrocious und fiendish cruelty to'his wife. He had beaten her, and the woman took refuge in n cellar. When she thought her husband had left the house she tried to come out through a trap door in the floor. Murphy jumped on the door .and caught one of her arms between the door nnd the floor. Then he slowly poured a kettle of scalding water over her arm. The arm was boiled from fingers to shoulders, and amputation was necessary. Mrs. Delia Tudor Parnell, daughter of the celebrated American navnl officer, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, and mother of the late,Charles Stewart Parnell, died at Avondale. Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland, as the result of the burns received from the igniting of her clothing while she was sittiug before a li re. Prince Luigi of Italy is to lx 1 the backer of an expedition to Alaska, which is to leave Seattle in May under the leadership of Mjnor E. S. Ingram, who accompanied Prince Luigi on his ascent of Mouut St. Elias last summer. Two negresscs in Duluth. Minn., fought n duel with pocket knives and both were frightfully cut, but will recover. A terrific windstorm swept over th# country between McAlestCr, I. T„ and Lehigh and Colgate. Four farmhouses were demolished nnd the occupants Of three of them are reported to have been killed.