Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]
News of Minor Note.
A business block at Burket, Ind., collapsed. One man, Joseph Condor, was killed and four others were injured, one fatally. Gov. Morton has signed the bill of Assemblyman Austin authorizing an increase in the New York police force of 600 patrolmen. f >n. John Echols, of Louisville, died at btaunton, Va. He was C. P. Huntington’s Southern representative, and was vice-president and receiver of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The whole Sawyer family, consisting of father, mother and grown-up son, were discovered in their home, a mile east of Ava, Mo., murdered. Robbery appears to hate been he motive. A. C. Putnam, president of the Chadron Banking Company of Chadron, Neb., which went into a receiver’s hands recently, was arrested for receiving money when he knew the institution was insolvent. Miss Mary Isabella Stewart, the youngest daughter of Senator Stewart, was married to Francis Lithgow Payson, son of Francis Payson, of New York, at Senator Stewart’s residence In Washington.
