Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Mrs. Mary T. Throckmorton is dead at Washington, aged 88. Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago, commissioner general of the Paris expostion. has teen confirmed by the Senate. Joseph W. Pearson, a printer, who objects to an Anglo-American alliance, bombarded the British ambassador's residence at Washington with brickbats, smashing doors and windows. Ah immense order for coffins has been placed by the War Department with tbe National Casket Company of Pittsburg. The coffins will be sent to Caba and Porto Rico for the remains of United States soldiers buried in those countries. The bodies will be brought to the United States and turned over to relatives or friend#.