HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
Jones, Esq., is dead. Mr. Jones was a brother- 
in-law of Mr. Hill, the landlord of the United 
States Hotel, and we believe well known to most 
old residents : 
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 16, 1862. 
EDITORS SENTINEL :-It is with feelings of 
sorrow that I have to announce to the citizens 
of Monroe, the death of D. S. Jones, formerly of 
that place, but latterly a resident of this city. 
Mr" Jones died on Friday evening, the 14th inst. 
He has been sick for about six weeks. He has 
been for several years an invalid, at times suf- 
fering from hemorrhoids or piles. Since his 
residence in this city he has been acting as 
night watchman in the interior department. His 
position afforded him a great deal of leisure 
time, and since the organization of the Soldiers' 
Aid Society he has devoted that leisure time to 
the work of looking after and caring for the 
sick and wounded soldiers. His special field of 
work was in the hospital of Alexandria. He 
was faithful, assiduous and untiring  in his la- 
bors, and by his unremitting kindness and at- 
tention he had grined the good will of the hos- 
pital officials and attendants, and particularly of 
the Wisconsin soldiers with whom he came in 
contact. Many of them will miss him, and with 
us will have cause to regret his death. 
By his unremitting exertions in behalf of the 
soldiers he aggravated his old disease, which 
soon prostrated him, and has carried him to 
his final resting place, a sacrifice upon the 
altar of his country. Those of us who were 
daily brought in contact with him, and knew 
him will deeply mourn his loss, for a faithful 
co-laborer has left us forever. 
Mr. Jones was thirty-eight years of age, and 
has left a wife and one child to mourn his early 
departure to the spirit-land, and well may they 
mourn, for as a husband and father, he was 
kind and faithful. 
His remains will be taken to Baltimore to-day, 
and buried there by the side of his father and 
other members of his family. 
I remain, yours, truly. 
NOkAN EAISTMAN, Sec'y. 
 
Sudden Death. 
[February 10, 1864.] 
On Wednesday evening of last week, John 
Ellis, of the town of York, died suddenly, as 
follows 
He had been in our village with a load of 
grain and was driving out to the house of Sam- 
uel Truax, (some three mlles from town) to 
stop for the night. When about half a mile 
this side of Mr. Truax's he suddenly dropped 
the lines and tumbled out of the sleigh. A 
young man named Thurston was riding with 
him, and immediately seizing the lines and 
heading the horses for the fence, he hitched 
them, and hastened back to where Mr. Ellis was 
lying in the road. Raising him up he discov- 
ered a little foam on his lips, but very little 
sign of life. He called for help, and Mr. Shrake, 
whose house they had just passed, hastened out. 
With Mr. Shrake's assistance the body of Mr. 
Ellis was placed in the sleigh, and Thurston 
drove rapidly to the house of Mr. Truax, but 
when he arrived there life was extinct. Justice 
Rote, of this town, next morning impaneled a 
coroner's jury, before which evidence was ad- 
duced showing that deceased had for some time 
been subject to occasional fainting spells, orig- 
inating in heart disease, and they accordingly 
returned a verdict that he died a natural death 
of that disease. We learn that Mr. Ellis leaves 
a wife and three children, in comfortable cir- 
cumstances, so far as property is concerned. 
Horrible Affair. 
[Feb. 8, 1865.-] 
A terrible tragedy was enacted in .the south- 
ern part of the town of New Glarus on the 
night of the 5th instant.  A German named 
Joseph Trogner, a farmer in good circumstances, 
who had been accustomed to loan out money 
from time to time, had just received some $800 
or more from a person who took up a mortgage. 
The money was paid either Saturday or" Sunday, 
arid was kept in Trogner's house.  On Sunday 
night Trogner's daughter, a girl some twelve 
years old, was aroused by seeing a man enter 
 
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