Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1897 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Dispatches received in New York from Panama state that Gen. Antonio Ezeta died there. T. V. Powderly, who was for several years at the head of the Knights of Labor, is a candidate for Commissioner of Immigration. Isaac S. Dement, of Chicago, champion shorthand writer, broke his previous record of 397 words by writing 402 words in one minute at Quincy, 111. The last of the missing fishermen carried out from Bay City, Mich., on the ice have returned home, and it is believed all have now safely landed. Only a few hundred shanties and none of the nets were saved. Judge Goff has appointed Z. T. Vincent receiver for U. B. Buskirk, merchant and l timberman of Logan, W. Va. Assets, $125,000; liabilities unknown. This is a result of the recent failure of the Sliger Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Fire which started in the building of the Elkins Hardware and Furniture Company, in the town of Elkins, the home of Senator Elkihs, burned almost the entire business portion of the place. , Elkins has no fire department, and the flames were soon beyond control, having mostly frame buildings in their pathway.