Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Lamar, in the matter of the Bell telephone patent, asks the Attorney General to proceed with a thorough investigation, in the name and at the expense of the Government, in order to ascertain if a patent has been obtained by fraud or issued for an invention not patentable. Miss Kate Bayard, the eldest daughter of the Secretary of State, was found dead in bed in Washington. On tho day of her delhise she had promised to go to tho White House to assist Miss Cleveland at her reception. Tho Executive Mansion was immediately closed and tho Marino Band dismissed. Miss Bayard was the eldost of the Secretary of Stati’s six daughters. Tho next daughter, Mabel Bayard, is the wife of Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of Boston, and Miss Annie, Miss Florence, and Miss Louise Bayard have but recently entered society at the capital. The youngest daughter is with Mrs. Warren in Boston pursuing her studies. Miss Katherine was the flower of all these daughters, a brilliant, clover, and accomplished girl, whose latest sayings and doings were always quoted. She was well read, gay, humorous, and witty, and her spirit and repartee made her famous as a conversationalist Sho was a fearless rider, and at hunts and riding parties would dare any leap and put her horse at anything, while her coolness and presence of mind were equal to any emergency. Her death was caused by neuralgia of the heart