Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

A. Fuller, aged about 50, a Cincinnati shoe dealer, committed suicide at the Stag Hotel. Canon Smith, a pioneer of Michigan, was killed at Edwardsburg by a kick from an unruly horse. Shadrack Inman, father of John H. Inman, the,i prominent New York cbanker, and of Samuel M. and Hugh T. Inman, well-known capitalists of Atlanta, is dying at his home in that city. R. McKay, aged 83, died suddenly in Bruce, Mich. He was one of the original abolitionists, casting his vote for that party in 1842, when it had hardly two anti-slavery votes in the town. Virginia S. Washington and Mary It Washington, of Portsmouth, 0., repre senting themselves to be immediate de scendants of George Washington, have written to the Secretary of the Interiof offering to sell to the Government a number of relics of Washington. Among these is a snuffbox presented to Jefferson by Washington and afterward returned to the donor.