Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — Suffocated in a Well. [ARTICLE]

Suffocated in a Well.

At Reading, Pa., Charles Smith, aged 12, dropped a knife into a twenty-five foot well, and going down to get it was overcome by gas. Isaac Doyle, aged 26, descended to rescue him and was also overcome, and both were taken out dead. Gen. Graft’s house in Philadelphia, given him by the citizens at the close of the rebellion, was sold at public auction recently for $22,500. The sale was by order of W. H. Vanderbilt, who held a mortgage on the property. The remains of Aleiander H. Stephens ire soOn to be placed in a vault on the grounds of his old home, Liberty Hall. The President credits Mr. Bayard with being the most unselfish man in the Cabinet. ,", , ' The salary of a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria is $2,500 per annum.