Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Mrs. Nornnin J. Column, wife of Norman J. Column, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, is dead at the family residence at St. Louis. „ f Maximo Lipeno, one of the most noted men among the Metis of Manitoba and the North West,-died suddenly at Ills home at Winnipeg. It is reported that John Cudahy, the millionaire pork packer of Chicago, who is owner of several thousand acres of land near Florence, I,os Angeles County, has in contemplation the turning of this land into a sugar-beet plantation, and the erection of sugar-reduction works