Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — LORENZO CROUNSE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LORENZO CROUNSE.

The Republican Nominee for Governor of Nebraska. The Eepubl leans of Nebraska named as their candidate for Governor Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, formerly

Congressman and recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in place of Mr. Batcheller, who was made Minister to Portugal. Mr. Crounse was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., Jan.

27, 1834. He received an academic education, studied law, and In 1855 commenced to practice in Montgomery County. At the outbreak of the civil war he organized a battery and entered the service as captain of artillery. In 1865 he removed to Nebraska, was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature the next year and assisted in forming the present State constitution. In 1867 be became Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, and later was a member of the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses. Last April he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury by Secretary Foster. Largest Elevator In the World. The largest grain elevator in the world was built at Minneapolis Junction in 1886. The main building is 336 feet long, 92 feet wide, and 175 feet high. Its storing capacity is 2,000,000 bushels of grain, says the Philadelphia Press. During its construction the carpenters and joiners used 12,500,000 feet of lumber of all kinds, besides 32 carloads of nails. These nails filled 10,000 common pail kegs, and best calculators say that there were but little short of 50,000,000 of them driven into the immenso structure. And Still Wo Are Climbing. The first American newspaper was published in 1699, and in 1890 the total number of periodical publications in Canada and the United States was nearly 18,000, with a combined annual issue of nearly 3,500,000,090.

LORENZO CROCKSE.