Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1902 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Owing to the inability of American mills ts deliver promptly on account of an excess of orders, an order for 30,000 tons of steel rails has. recently been given to a German concern. The rails arc to be delivered on the Pacific coayt. Charles Campbell, a rural mail carrier between Billings and Bliss, O. T., was instantly killed by lightning when returning from a daily trip. J. H. McMahon, the originator of the Independent telephone system in Kansas, died at Alma of creeping paralysis. He waa 42 years old.