Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — Told In a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told In a Few Lines.

The letter carriers of the City of Mexico are now using bicycles in delivering mail. The Metropolitan Electric Company of Chicago has failed. The liabilities amount to about $35,000. Poor collections are said to have caused the assignment. James Gerah, a well-known sporting man from the Pacific coast, was instantly killed at Chickasaw, I. T., by Willis Day, a stranger, in a quarrel over cards. At Philadelphia, Daniel Mehan, aged 19 years,’accidentally ran his bicycle against a low stone fence, plunged headlong over it into Wissahiekou creek, and was drowned. Two Ohio firms, the Canton Rolling Mill Company of Canton, 0., and the P. Hayden Saddlery and Hardware Company of Columbus, have signed the Amalgamated Association scale. The last of the summer conferences at East Northfield, Mass., the general conference for Christian workers, will continue until Sept. 16. D. L. Moody will have charge of the meetings. John M. Forbin and Lorenzo Semple have been appointed receivers of the property in New York State of the American Publishing Corporation. The liabilities are $403,000; assets about $150,000. Mifyor Phelan has telegraphed an invitation to President McKinley to visit San Francisco. The Mayor has also wired Congressman. Loud, requesting him personally to see the President and get from him, if possible, a favorable reply to the invitation. The blow of a hammer upon a noil caused a $40,000 fire at Olean, N Y and eleven men narrowly escaped beins burned to death. The men were roofinr a 35,000-barrel oil tank when it was dis’ covered that the oil had ignited from a spark caused as above.* Representatives of Eastern hop-buving firms have been in Chehalis, Wash sev eral days and displayed great eagerness to make contracts for the 1897 crop Recently the best quality sold for 7 cents but now 8% cents and even 10 cents" a pound is offered, and the latter figure has been refused by several parties. The prospects for the growing crop are exceedingly good. A beautiful spectacle, never witnessed before at Tacofna, "Wash., was the signal lights of the club of mountain climbers known as the Mazamas, from the snowcapped summit of Mount Tacoma, sixty miles away. The night was clear and favorable, and for an hour before the flash appeared thousands of eyes and hundreds of field glasses were trained on the mountain, searching for the signal. At length a large red light, apparently like a ball of fire over a foot in diameter, appeared, burning steadily for nearly five minutes. It was distinctly visible to the naked eye.