Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Morris Eppler, a 14-year-old Dayton, 0., boy, found a revolver in a box and, trying it on Rudolph Freikek aged 5, killed him instantly. Wallace Campbell of New York, known as "Wally de Forrest,” an actor, died suddenly at the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Chester, Pa. Afriol Paur. who organized the Liederkranz Society and had been forty-seven years its leader, is dead, aged 73 years. He was instrumental in bringing over the first German opera company that visited this country in 1851. Edward I*. Wiley of Chicago, assistant cashier of the United States Express Company, and Miss Nettie Shutters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Shulters, were married at Defiance, O. Harry Blaylock, a well-known jockey, had a stroke of paralysis at Hamilton, Ont., and fell from the hayloft to the floor. He was taken to the hospital, where physicians say he will likely die. A child of Captain Eastbury of the schooner Essex, in port at New’ York, fell on a sheet of fly paper, which stuck to its face, and was nearly suffocated. William Elmer Rockwell, well-known baseball player and manager, died at San Francisco of meningitis, aged 42.