Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — BREAD ON THE WATERS. [ARTICLE]

BREAD ON THE WATERS.

Twenty years ago Attorney Eimermann, of Milwaukee, then a journeyman barber in Chicago, befriended a man named Walter, a comparative stranger, who was in hard luck. Finally Walter asked the loan of $lO, saying he could get a job at St. Louis and would return the money. Elmermannn loaned the sum and never heard of his friend Walter until Saturday last, when ho received a letter from a Houston (Tex.) law firm stating that Mr. Walter had died and left him sole heir to an estate worth $17,000.