People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A man being refused credit at one of the Kohomq groceries do liberately priced up a ham 'of meat and earned it away. An officer was sent to arrest the offender. but finding the hungry children voraciously eating the raw meat as if they were starving, his heart failed him, and he came away without making the arrest. The heirs of Reuben P. Ryan, whose death was mentioned in the Pilot at the tiifte, have brought suit against the county for SIO,OOO. He met his death by falling from a load of hay which slipped from a high and dangerous grade during the icy period last winter. They stand a good chance of getting a verdict in their favor, as the bridge was known to have been unsafe and dangerous. , The Hamilton-Marviu company is playing to delighted 'audiences at the Opera House this week. The company this year shows some strength over that of last year. To-night they play the great emotion.'l drama in five acts, entitled “East Lynne.” To-morrow afternoon they will give a matinee, the admission of which will be only 10 cents. The week’s engagement will close Saturday evening with the comedy drama, “The Outcast.” The Phelps, Dodge & Palmer b»ot and shoe depart ment of the northern prison closed down last Monday for .vn indefinite period on account of dullness in trade. The Chicago houses of this firm are now closed do-yn, and as are shipped here from those houses in a partial state of completion to be finished by labor at the prison here, these supplies have been cut off, which leaves nothing to do in the. department. The firm, which has about 120 men under contract, has to carry them at their own expense, until operations are resumed again. Meantime the men will be employed about the prison, so far as they can be used. It is not expected that they will be idle more than & week.—Mich. City Dispatch.