Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The town of Flesherton, Ont., was wiped out by fire. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, the comedian, lias been sued for a separation by his wife, Elvia Croix Seabrooke, upon the ground of cruelty and abandonment. Obituary : At Dresdeu, Ohio, Dr. D. A. Austin. —At Falrbury, 111., Mrs. Mary Gibb, 08. —At Muncie, Ind., Milton Thomas. —At. Constantine, Mich., Samuel King.—At Eikhart, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Burdoff, 52—At Rockford, 1111., Mrs. A. J. Storey, 03. The steamer Alki, at Port Townsend, from Alaska, had a r passengers two seal ers, Gus Petersen, a German, and a halfbreed, Siwash Jimmy, who left Victoria Jan. 23_ in a sealing schooner; City of San Diego. April 4 the men, while hunting seals, were lost in a blinding snowstorm and driven before the wind all night in a small canoe. When daylight came the schooner was not in sight. For six days and night; the men drifted, until they went on the Alaskan beach 100 miles' west of and hffiStfb were frozen stiff. They were picked up by Indians. As the schooner City of San Diego has not been sighted since the night of the storm, Peterson is of the opinion she was lost. She had eighty skins nt the time the men left her.