Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The steamer Anna M. Pierce burned at Whidby Island, Puget Sound. The cook is missing and is supposed to have been drowned. H. S. Ferguson, son of a Chicago banker, was arrested at Santa Cruz, Cal., charged with obtaining slls by giving a bad check. Ex-Chief of Police H. A. Dillnan committed suicide at Sacramento on account of ill health. He was aG. A. R. man and 50 years old. Mrs. Hattie Riddell, mother of Charles Riddell, the absconding mail carrier under bonds at Columbus, Ind., for robbing the mails, has lost her mind and will probably die. During the funeral of William Kedsie, a veteran aged 79, at Adrian, Mich., Aaron Goodrich, another veteran, died, aged 64. Kedsie wit's the oldest member of Woodbury post, G. A. R. John Mackinley, jr., the wealthiest resident in Clark County, 111., while conversing with his family iif apparently the best of health, was suddenly stricken dumb and the whole lower part of his body paralyzed. He will die. Mrs. William Richard of Catelin*, a small town forty-five miles from Duluth, 'was shot by her husband. ,Botb husband and wife claim that thp shooting was accidental, but an investigation is being made. The womafi-may recover! Thunder storms and lightning continue with fatal results in different parts of Austria-Hungary. Two persons were killed near Funkerichen, and two girls were killed and ten persons and 135 head of cattle destroyed between Bekes sad Osaka.