Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — CLEANED from the EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEANED from the EXCHANGES

From April 15 to June 30 the Franco-British troops on the western front captured 63,222 prisoners, Including 1,278 officers. The war material taken in the same period included 509 guns, 503 trench mortars and 1,318 machine guns. The total number of Germans killed since the beginning of the war to March, 1917, is not less than 1,500.000, according to an estimate reached by French general headquarters. This computation has been made after careful study of documents bearing on the subject. . w Two Lafayette hospitals, one Protestant, the other Catholic, will share in the estate of Frederick S. Chase, the will, which was probated Tuesday, directing that $.5,(J00 be paid to St. Elizabeth hospital and $5,000 to the Home hospital. Mr. Chase was the father of Moses Fowler Chase, the demented millionaire now in a sanatorium near Milwaukee. His estate is valued at about SIOO,OOO. After the hospital bequests are paid, three-eighths of the residue goes to a sister, Mrs. Harriette Milford, of Crawfordsand the remainder is to be divided among his nieces and nephews.