Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1898 — Back From Germany. [ARTICLE]

Back From Germany.

Mrs. Henry Zacher and son Frank, of Newton township, arrived on the 10:55 a. m. train Saturday, from their visit to Germany, for which place they started from here on Feb. Ist. having thus been away three months. 'Their return trip was a very pleasant one, and was of 14 day’s duration. Mrs. Zacher’s aged parents, whom she went to visit, were still living when she loft there. An exciting incident of the homeward voyage, was the suicide of a fireman, who threw himself overboard on account of anger at an officer. i