Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — BURIED A STRANGER. [ARTICLE]

BURIED A STRANGER.

SUPPOSED HIM TO BE THEIR OWN SON. tf-' - —■ 1 Man Thought to Have Died in the War Living for Thirty Years-Prisoners in Pennsylvania Penitentiary Have Been Making Bad Coin. A Singular Story. A remarkable and romantic case of mistaken identity has come to light at Akron, 0., with the information from Big Bug, Aria., that George Case, who was supposed to have died in the war and to have been buriedHhere. has in fact just died in Arizona, leaving quite a fortune to Akron heirs. George Case was the eon of an Akron carpenter, who, being refused permission to join the army, ran, away from home and enlisted In the SixtTT independent battery of Ohio, Jan. 15, 1864. His parents received information from Chattanooga, Tenn., that he was ill and in the general field hospital. Then came a letter from a comrade saying that George was dead. The parents ordered the body sent to Akron, but when it reached there the mother declared that the remains were not those of her son. The body was interred in Glendale cemetery, and, no further tidings were received. J. F. Seiberling, the well-known manufacturer, recently received a letter from Big Bug, Ariz., telling of the death of George Case, whose only relatives, so far as known there, lived in Akron. The man had long lived there, but died of rheumatism on his way to Hot Springs, Ark. Convict Counterfeiters. Warden E. S. Wright of the Riverside penitentiary at Pittsburg has discovered that a number of the convicts confined in the institution have been manufacturing counterfeit 50-cent pieces. He has unearthed the metal from which the “queer” money was made, the molds in which it was cast and the names of several convicts who were connected with the matter, brft as yet he has been unable to find the man who originated and earned opt the scheme. The counterfeits are magnificent specimens of the coiner’s art. The die from which they were made is almost perfect, and the milling of the coins, which is the Government's chief protection of metal money from those who would imitate it, is as near perfect as it is possible for human ingenuity to make it. The counterfeiters had already secured a connection with outside parties and some of the bad money is now in circulation. Warden Wright has a list of nearly a score of convicts and other persons supposed to be connected with the counterfeiting, and when the full story of the crime comes out it is said there will be some sensational developments. We Wait on England. ■ Unless the British foreign office of its own motion presses the negotiations in connection with the arbitration treaty, State Department officials in Washington say the matter will not again be taken up by this Government. In the past three months nothing has been done to expedite matters. When Secretary Sherman suggested to Sir Julian Pauncefote last June that the President would be gratified to see the negotiation of a treaty of general arbitration during his administration the latter expressed pleasure at the information and entered upon a discussion of the subject, which, however, was limited to generalities. Sir Julian then went to London to consult with Lord Salisbury on matters of importance and, acting under the instructions of the State Department, Ambassador Hay consulted with the British foreign office on the subject. Apparently the representations he made were not as enthusiastically received as were those of his predecessor. As a result the matter has languished, and now, department officials declare, Great Britain must be the one to revive the subject and push it to a successful conclusion.