Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

J. Q. Adams Fritchey, a wealthy retired attorney of St. Louis, is dead of spinal disease at Atlantic City. A freight ran into a passenger train at Flora] Park on the Long Island Railroad. Four passengers were injured! James Daily, grocer and saloon-keeper, shot and killed Joe Brumback at Daily’s place, one mile east of Frankfort, Ky. Word has been received from Sandoa, B. C., that the people are fleeing for their lives from the town on account of cholera. Sandon is situated on a narrow gulch, leading to Bear Lake, about 150 miles to the east and north of Rossland. During the last fiscal year 49,884 applications for patents were filed and 25,819 patents, trade-marks, etc., were granted. The receipts of the office were $1343,779.44, and the expenditures SI,O2CU 044.39, leaving a surplus of $317,135.05, which is SIOO,OOO more than last year. The total receipts of the patent office over axoanditurea to date are $5,093,01433.