Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

Napoleon Valcam of Hudson, Mass., eloped with his stepmother. James Pittenger, aged 40, who recently had charge of the county farm near Lamar, Mo., committed suicide. The Government survey of the Indian Territory has been completed and the last stake driven in the Cherokee Nation. Charles Guilkey was drowned in Elk river, near Independence, Kan. He was swimming, when he was taken with the cramps.

There is great, excitement at Orlando, Okla., over the disappearance of the pretty 2-year-old daughter of George Kinier, formerly of lowa. John Auld of Atchison, Kan., fell from a second-story window at the residence of his brother-in-lHw, C. D. Walker, while walking hi his sleep. J. P. Ballinger fell from a ladder while painting the oil tanks in the Springfield (Mo.) Wagon Company’s yards and was instantly killed. 13. 8. Fry, one of the largest land owners at Plattsburg, Mo., made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. His liabilities are estimated at $65,000. > Kdward Silk, who killed John Heller Smith, a 17-yenr-old boy, at Moberly, Mo., in June, 1896, has been taken to the penitentiary to serve a 20-year sentence. The phosphate camp at Ponpon, S. C., is wildly excited over the finding of $30,000 in gold by two negro diggers, who dug np a large chest and divided the contents. Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma has pardoned from the penitentiary Cole Martin, a young Guthrie attorney, serflpqg a twoyear sentence for embezzling money from a client. * The board of managers of the Omaha exposition have notified the members of the Kansas commission that Sept. 1 has been designated as Kansas day at the exposition. .L- • The Attorney General of Kansas takes the position that whatever live stock quarantine regulation the State sanitary boards make can be enforced, and it was proper to keep out Texas cattle.