People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — A Would-Be Biter Bitten. [ARTICLE]

A Would-Be Biter Bitten.

St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 2.—William Bedeck, a farmer living near Rushville, this county, arrived home from New York Tuesday with a package of green paper for which he paid $4,000 in cash. He obeyed the injunction of the man he met in New York not to open the package until he arrived home. He thought he had $15,000 in counterfeit greenbacks. ■ The m ether of the late mind-reader Washington Irving Bishop has recently married Lucius Langton Nicholas, a great-grandson of an emperor of Russia. During the war Mrs. Nicholas was a famous nurse in military hospitals. Between the blase-looking man who has had an unlucky affair and the nice boy with a cool million, the genuine summer girl never hesitates. In winter she will choose the million. In summer the romance. In this country there are 243 lifesaving stations.