Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — DEATH OF VANDERBILT. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF VANDERBILT.

The Great Railway King Is Suddenly Called Away.

William H. Vanderbilt, the millionaire, and railroad magnate, dropped dead on the afternoon of Tuesday, the Btli inst., at his residence in New York.

An Arizona paper remarks: “Those well-kuown Indian braves Gee-Up Charley and Short-Pants have been arrested for drunkenness again. This makes the ninety-seventh time, and a movement is on foot among the habitues of A 1 Blodgett’s saloon to celebrate the occurrence of their hundredth arrest, which cannot be far distant. A souvenir programme will be issued, the Montezuma will be thrown open to the boys, and several well-known desperate Greasers will be shot on sight. We will be there ourselves, and will do all we can to add to the interest of the occasion.”