Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The citizens of Alaska held an election Sept. 5, and chose CoL M. D. Ball delegate to Congress. The day succeeding the death of President Garfield, the Equitable Life Assurance Society- of New York, forwarded to the appropriate agent its check for the full amount of the President’s policy in that company—s2s,ooo. The President died a poor man, and left no will. His property consisted of the Mentor farm, which is inenmbered by a mortgage held by Dr. Robertson, his next-door neighbor, and the benefactor of his early youth, and a residence at Washington, which is incumbered by a mortgage held by Gen. Swaim. The Mentor farm is worth perhaps SB,OOO, and the Washington residence about $15,000, and the mortgages represent about half their value. Up to Sept. 24 tho fund for the family of the lamented President Garfield had reached $287,514. Bush fires on the Saugeen Peninsula in Canaria have caused a loss of $500,000. As good old Mrs. Garfield was packing her little sachel at Mentor, previous to her departure for Cleveland to attend her beloved son’s’ funeral, one of the clasps refused to yield, and she called out: “James, I can’t unfasten my sachel.” The words had hardly escaped her lips when she recalled the terrible truth that James could never again on earth afford her any assistance. Poor old lady 1