Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1913 — 100 DOGS AT PETS’ FUNERAL. [ARTICLE]

100 DOGS AT PETS’ FUNERAL.

Miss Crocker Buries Terriers Concrete Coffin. San Franclsoo, Cal.—One hundred dogs, valued at 9100,000 attended a funeral here, following their mistress, Mies Jennie Crocker, behind the bier on which was borne two of their kennel mates, Boston terriers, valued at $6,000 each. The funeral took place on the Crocker estate, the dead prlxe winners being placed in concrete coffins fashioned in Egyptian style. The dogs, classed as among the most perfect ' animals of their breed In the world, were Dick Dazzler and Wonderland Duchess. Death was caused by a disease known to dog fanciers as “little Johnny flea.” Order your Galling Cards aft The Republican office.

Fears are expressed for the ship George W. Westeott, owned and sailed by Captain Jacob Olson and carrying a crew of four. The boat left Glen Haven, Mich., Aug. JW 1 , for Milwaukee. The international military rifle matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, will close with today’s shooting and Sergeant Jerry B. Garland will probably arrive home tomorrow. He has been on the rifle range since July 31« t. fluring the last six days there have been three suicides and seven attempts at self-destruction In Evansville. Mrs. Ellen Lauderdale, 40 years old, who took poison Saturday,* probably will die. The attempts are attributed to t|)e intense heat. Joseph H. Williams, soldier of the Boer war, and Miss Harriett Lawson, daughter of Col. W. F. Lawson of the United States army, were married Monday In Crown Point. The wedding was ths culmination of an army romance begun two years ago. Try our dasilflel Oohnn. J