Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — The Hardest- Heated Man. [ARTICLE]

The Hardest- Heated Man.

Alexander Jones, of fie® Dtego, Cal., the hardest headed mania the world, is dead. Jones had furnished amusement to thousands by allowing them to break canes, chairs and clubs over his head. Many San Franciscans will remember the batting bout he had with a big colored man from up the coast and how tbe colored man was worsted. Ho had bested the hardest headed Africans ever put before him. He was a phenomenon in his way. and moro than one medical society and museum has offered ba arrange with him for his head after bis death, a subject on which he Alexander refused to converse unless in his caps. His picture has appeared in many of the sporting papers, bat dilate years he has dropped out of pcottutwoce, owing to his dissipated habits. Only a few days before his death ha told an acquaintance here that, whoa ill in San Francisco, a tnedieal college offered him over SI,OOO for his head, and was so earnest in its offer that he left the city before he was hardlyfit for travel. Last Sunday he was reported quite ill in his room in the lower part of town by some of the inhabitants of that quarter, and he was taken to ths County Hospital, where he died soon after and was buried to-day. He was aged 85 and a native of Wales.