Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

The Queen 'City cotton mills at Burlington, Vt., have resumed operations. Their operatives were the first to resist a cut in wages. A bill has been introduced in the Ohio Senate to abolish capital punishment and substitute solitary life imprisonment for first degree murder. Peter Jackson is training ' faithfully across the bay from San Francisco for anything that may turn up in the way of a match. Jeffries is also at work in Alameda for his prospective match with Tom Sharkey. O. B. Shallenberger, consulting engineer of the Westingliouse company of Pittsburg, died at Colorado Springs, Colo., of consumption. He was one of greatest electrical engineers in the United States. Gen. R. E. Lee’s birthday was celebrated at Richmond, Ya., by the closing of the public and private schools, banks and public offices and business exchanges. Addresses were made at the Soldiers’ Home and Lee Camp Hall. A. Blackney of Covington, Ga., a traveling salesman, shot himself in a Now York hotel. He left a note saying that he was about to end his life because o'* unrequited affection.