People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

’ A young non of a farmer named Ouse was accidentally shot by his brother at IClshicott, Wis., and died a few hours later. E. A. Potter, dealer in general merchandise at Allison. la., assigned to Turner Burbeck for the benefit of creditors. The assets are estimated at between $5,000 and $7,000, with liabilities At between $3,500 and $4,000. Mrs. Fred Beeck of Two Rivers, Wis., was drowned in a cistern. The Jury rendered a verdict of suicide while in a temporary-fit of insanity. • Edward Meyers and William Williams are charged with having passed counterfeit dollars at Wilton and Durant, la, The men have been buying babbitt metal and block tin from hardware ■tores at Wilton. Alfred Rand of Milwaukee was drowned in the Kinnickinnic river while ■kating. A .J. Funkhouser, an extensive farmer of Pleasant Grove township, near Charleston, Ills., has assigned. The assets and liabilities reach about $25,000. Washington Cox of Martinsville, Ind., aged 60 years, committed suicide by ■hooting himself. 111-health and despondency were the causes. He left a widow and seven children. F. J. George, representing himself to be from Independence, la,, is held in custody at LaPorte. Ind., accused of obtaining money under false pretenses. The first Baptist church of Portage, Wis.. was destroyed by fire. Mary J. Hawley, an old pioneer widely known, fell dead from heart disease on the street at West Branch, la., while returning from church. Thomas Reynolds, 21 years old, was drowned while skating on the bay at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. He was a school teacher in Hainesville, and a nephew of Charles Reynolds, member of the Republican state central committee. William Divine, a farmer near Shakertown, Ky., returning home, found his wife murdered. Two infants were clinging to the dead body of their mother. John Hutchinson, formerly, city marshal of Whitney, la., was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Rathbone on a charge of bigamy and taken to Eldora, la. Ole Oleson, a mall-carrier between Franksville and North Cape, Wis., aged 72 years, was injured in a runaway and died in a short time. Dora, the 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elsie Brown, living east of BaGrange, Ind., died from the effects of swallowing chewing gum.