People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. [ARTICLE]

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Obituary: At Dayton, 0., Ex-County Recorder James H. Hall. At St. Louis, Martin Kaiser. At Nashville, Ills., Mrs. Sallie H. Adams, 54. A case of a man’s fading in love with and marrying his mother-in-law is reported from Troy township, six miles south of Eagle, Wis. Elder Beatchtel, the divorced husband of Hattie Babcock Beatchtel, by whom he has one living child, and Mrs. Sarah Babcock are the contracting parties. The vote of California for presidential electors has been tabulated and shows the following totals: Republicans, 146,588; fusion,* 144,766; Prohibition, 2,573. A hog weighing 1,000 pounds was slaughtered near Cambridge, Md„ William E. Seeley, president of the First National bank of Bridgeport, Conn., has been offered the position of United States treasurer under President McKinley. Auditor General-Elect Dix, of Lansing, Mich., has served notice of dismissal to thirty of the present office force. The port of London is on the wane, and is losing prestige as the distributing center of Europe, according to the report of Sir Thomas Sutherland. The Filip £ Raiehart Manufacturing company, at 810 West Nineteenth street, Chicago, has made an assignment. Assets, $30,000; liabilities about $28,000. The company has a planing mill. A bill will be presented to the Pennsylvania legislature abolishing the scaffold in the execution of condemned criminals and substituting gas. It is propose to turn the gas into an airtight cell while the condemned man 13 asleep. The body of Harry Rundell, of Chicago, was found floating in Lake Elizabeth, near Los Angeles, Cal. A confession is said to have been made by C. W. Manley, of Jacksonville, Ills., of an attempt to rob the Massachusetts Benefit association of SIO,OOO in the Thomas G. Flennikin case by false testimony.