Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — What Has Become of Him? [ARTICLE]

What Has Become of Him?

Mysterious Disappearance of Charles W Clifton. o , A dispatch from Denver, Col., in One of the Chicago dailies, last Tuesday, gives some information regarding, the disappearance of C. W. Clifton, the well known Insurance man, of lhis place. His wife and other friends here have also lately received letters, In j regard to the same occurence. He went to Colorado last fall as General Agent, for that state, for the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Portland, Me. On April 6th, he left his stopping plac®, near Fort Collins, taking his rifle, and saying that he would hunt through the mountains and return that evening. unless he got on the trail of game. Nothing has been seen or heard ot him since that time. Some search was made for him shortly alter his disappearance, and on Thursday of last week, a party from Fort Collins made a two days’ search, but without result. On Monday of this week, with a fresh lot of supplies, thoy T resumed the hunt, but with what result we have not learned. Of the various possible ways of accounting for Mr. Clifton’s disappearance that of suicide seems tho most probable, in view of all the known circumstances. He has lately written to his wile, in this place, in a very ; desponding tone, in regard to his health and financial prospects; and the manner in which he arranged his affairs, just prior to his disappearance, would seem t 6 indicate that he did not expect to return alive. Mrs. Clitton believes that this is',the true explanation of his disappearance,. Mr. Clinton's family consists of his well nigh distracted wife, and three young children.

■ fbhnary. Cyrus Foltz. Cyrus Foltz was both in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, December 3rd, 1831, and died at Oxford, Indiana, on Sunday, April 19th, 1885, at the age of 53 years, 4 months and 14 days. The deceased, when a child, removed with his parents, Jonathan and Susannah Foltz, to Marion county, Indiana, where he received a fair common school education, l. In the year 1854, the business life of the defeased commenced at liomiiey, Indiana, where he was married on October Ist, 1856 to Mary Rogers. For 28 years the married life of the deceased was blessed as a continual feast of conjugal and filial love. When death claimed the deceased the wife of his youth, and two children, May, (now Mrs. S. P. Thompson) and Frank, a son, composed the family circle. The deceased had resided 'at Oxford fifteen years. His daily walk and conversation were of that stamp Which molds the world for the bbtter and won the respect and esteem of all. EAn upright man, a public spirited and progressive citizen, a kind hearted neighbor whose ’every word and act were honest and charitable. Even at noon tide the life of the deceased was well rounded up as a worthy example.

ThinkN (be Sentence Should have been Ten Years. Monticello Herald. Geo. blitz was convicted of arson in the Jasper circuit Court last week and : received a sentence of one year in the State’s prison. Stitz’s crime was perpetrated for the purpose df securing the insurance upon a butcher shop, owned by him in Remington, and the result of it was a destructive conflagration and the destruction of a Largo amount of valuable property-. There seems to have been no doubt as to Stitz's guilt, yet tor his infamous crime he i 3 awarded only tho penalty that should attach to the least criminal offending. Not i satisfied with fife light punishment fix- , ed by the jury, 'ill*. Stitz has appealed to the Supreme court for additional relief, in apparent ignorance of the fact that an even balance in the scales of justice would give him a ten years’ ! sentence. * - j

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