Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — MISSION HOUSE IN JAPAN LOST. [ARTICLE]

MISSION HOUSE IN JAPAN LOST.

Mrs. Alexander UuaMe to Kacadte from Flames. News has been received from Hirosaki, Japan, that the mission house of the general missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that city has been destroyed by fire. Mrs. Alexander, wife of the Rev. IL P. Alexander, who Is in charge of the mission, was burned to death. Her husband, as well as Miss Otto and Miss Hewitt, who are working under the auspices of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, escaped.