Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — COMING BACK TO AMERICA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COMING BACK TO AMERICA.

Mark Twain is expected back in Amer> tea-soon. but he will not return to his Hartford home. The place has too many painful associations. It is rumored that he will join President Cleveland in the attempt to make an American’Walhalla of Jprinceton, N. J. . ■■ Destruction by fire of lumber has been exceedingly serious in Washington State. On the assumption that the burned areas contained an average of as much timber as the untouched portions, 40,000,900,900 feet Have been destroyed since lumbering began. This amount would supply all ths sawmills of the United States for two years, and at a value of only 75c per 1,000, means a dead loss to the State of $30,000,000. —■ „ . It was believed that the recent burning of two Chicago churches was the work of an incendiary.