Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Anna Blythe Hallowell, who killed herself at Beverly, Cal., was a morphine user. Justus Miller, die well-known collar manufacturer of Troy, N. Y„ and prominent member of the prohibition party, died of hiccoughs. Robert Lucas, a crack bicycle rider living at Wpllace, Mo., while out for a spin, was thrown from his wheel and received Injuries which proved fatal. The failure of J. R. McKee was announced on the New York Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange. The failure is said to be a small one. A,meta and liabilities unknown. i The Congregational College of Perry, 0.,T., was burned. The building and fixtures are worth $12,060 to $15,000, with about $5,000 insurance. It is certain that persons set fire to the building, William J. Lehigh, manager of the Merchants’ Exchange Association at Portland, Ore., committed suicide on the finer of the exchange by shooting. Business sc verses caused him to take his life.