People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

John A. Bell, for twenty-five years managing editor of the Detroit Free Press, died in that city. The unofficial list of members-elect of the house of representatives of the . Fifty-third congress, as compiled by the clerk of the house, shows that the democrats will have 220, the republicans 127 and the third party 8. Charles Longfellow, son of the poet, died at his home in Boston after lingering illness. The negroes of Oklahoma territory met in convention at Guthrie and organized an independent political party. Nathaniel Straughn, aged nearly 101 years, died a: his home near Mitchell, Ind. Mbs. Jennie Northern, living 13 miles west of Princeton, Ky., died of the measles at the advanced age of 110 years, Mrs. Alfred Pettis., who as Kitty O'Neill gained a wide reputation as the best female jig dancer in the world, died at Buffalo. N. Y., aged 38 years. Lucy Larcom, the famous poetess, died at her home in Beverly, Mass., aged 67 years.