Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1908 — Captain Schaick Gives Up Fight. [ARTICLE]

Captain Schaick Gives Up Fight.

Captain William H. Van Scbaick, of New York city who commanded the steamboat General Slocum when It burned and 1,000 lives were lost, will begin his sentence of ten years next Tuesday, it having been decided not to appeal to the United States supreme court ,