Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.

A disaster has occurred at Cordova, Argentine Republic, where the canal lms burst its embankments and destroyed hundreds of houses. One hundred lives aroTeported to be lost. Gen. Roca, the minister of the interior, has gone to the scene to superintend meashres of relief. W. J. Devol, of Cebanon, inherited $lO,000. In October, tSS9, ho became of age and the money was paid him by his guar diaa. Immediately a patent-right shark, aided by anuppoaea friend of Devol’s, persuaded him to invest his all in a scheme Devol now sues for»8,000 damages, aud now'claims he was mbt capable to de> with Hph sagacious igpn and WSs tea quaintpd wish the ways of the wpjrld. HI