Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

F. W. Hoell, implement dealer in Lawrence, Kan., has failed. J. B. Thunnison and wife were suffocated at Mitchell, S. D., by gas from a coal stove. Mary Beick was burned to death at Colma, Cal., where the plant of the California Fuse Company was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. John Toaleton of East township. Carroll County, 0., climbed a tree to shale, off a coon, lost his hold and fell to the ground and was almost instantly killed.