Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]
Sparks from the Wires.
Mrs. Ida Fairchild, of Danville, 111., died on n train in Colorado. The Southern Trade of St. Louis estimates this year's cotton crop at 9,600,000 bales. The Osage Indians have made a partial agreement with the government commission to divide their lands. A. B. Fonts, a farmer near Mexico, Mo., shot his head off, discharging both barrels of the gnn with a stick. Maj. Hainbrongh failed in his suit to recover insurance on the life of his eon, killed at Acdflamevt, Scotland.
