Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Harriet Beecher "Stowe aleft an estate valued at $42,353. Obituary—At Deadwood, S. D., General Andrew R. Z. Dawson, 61; at Pqttsville, I’a., General Joshua -K, Siegfried, 64; at Tamaroa, 111., J. S. Winthrop, Along the Northern Rajiway. between Whatcom and, Goshen, bush fires have burned many barns, fences and railroad ties. At Vancouver Wednesday night there were two fires, and a house and steamer were burned. Unless rain, comes soon large tracts of timber along tlie Fra"Ser rn'<T“w ill "be destroy ed. Den se s moke has settled down.over'iiie seaport towns, aiid.it is. with the greatest difficulty navivation can be carried on. It. is believed that several miners have perished in the. vicinity of Spokane, The barkentine Herbert Fuller, Capt. Nash, from Boston July 3 for Rosario, put into Halifax Tuesday morning, flying the stars and-stripes at half-mast with a black flag immediately beneath. This is the signal for ‘’mutiny on board!’’ When the Fuller was boarded it was learned that murder had been added to mutiny, and that (’apt. Nash, his wife Laura, and Second Officer Banberry had been killed in their bunks while asleep. The murders had been committed with an ax. The rooms in which the victims lay were covered with blood, showing that a severe struggle had taken place, and the bodies were horribly mutilated. The cook. Jonathan Sheere of Rosario, suspected (he mate. Thpipas Brown, and succeeded in placing the latter in irons, and he aftefward ironed the man who was at the wheel at the time the murder was committed. Upon arriving all on board the vessel, including Frank Monch, of ’ Boston, who was a passenger, were placetj under arrest. The United States consul telegraphed to Washington for instructions, pending the receipt of which be has enjoinesVaU cdnnectbd with the affair to maintain the strictest silence.