Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Terrible Rain of Shot and Shell. [ARTICLE]

Terrible Rain of Shot and Shell.

Some idea of the extent to which Sebastopol was fired upon by the allied armies and fleets may be obtained from < the statement that from a tax of six pence per hundredweight which the government levied upon the proceeds of the sales of old iron, shot and shell picked up and sold by the people a sum of nearly $75,000 was realised.