Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — ASSASSIN BURNS [ARTICLE]

ASSASSIN BURNS

BwlMlnc ta Whteh * Would-Be Murderer I* Correted la rtred. Jefferson, Wis., Feb. 29.—L. M. Smith, secretary, treasurer and suixrintendent Of the Wisconsin Manufacturing company, was shot Friday night and fatally wounded by an unknown man. Officers pursuing theassasslu surrounded him in the fnetory, »nd after shots were exchanged, the building t. as fired and the plant and the assassin were consumed together.