Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Big fish dealers of Florida have formed a combine. Wages of miners at Stoneboro, Pa., have been increased. Mrs. Rachel Forest, 104, colored, is dead at Washington, D. C. Miles Lewis, 14, was suffocated in an elevator at Rochester, N. Y. Charles Winkler, 22, Canal Dover, 0., was killed by a fall of clay. Tw» men were killed by three boilers exploding at Portsmouth, Va. Michael J. Freeman of New York drowned at Mount Kisbo, N. Y. -Frank Meehan, 14, was killed in an elevator at Oakland Station, Ohio. Body of Reuben Shaffer; 50, was found in a field kt Coney Island, N. Y. Mystery. Wm. A. Cox, wanted in Havana for embezzlement, was arrested in New Orleans. Rose McConnell, 5, Seneca Falls, N. Y., was left alone at home. Burned to death. Charles Bolton, a lineman of Pittsburg, was killed by an electric shock at Bridge- * port, Ohio. An unknown “floater” fished out of the river at St Louis. Believed to be a case of murder. c ‘ John A. Kiefer, a merchant of Carlisle, Pa., killed hiinself in a hotel at Hagerstown, Md. Mrs. C. E. Page of Cincinnati lost $2,di »