Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — Highest Cross in America. [ARTICLE]

Highest Cross in America.

The Two 1 Republics '(Mexico) notes the erection on the summit of Mount Orizaba, or, as the Mexicans call it, Citlaltepetl (fc>ter Mountain), of an iron cross seven yards high ,in place of the wooden one ereotea there a long time ago. The Two llepiiblios assorts that this cross Is the highest bno in Amorlca. It has been supposed, it suy.*, that the volcano Mlstes, in Guatemala, was higher than Orizaba, but recent measurements make It appear that the latter mountain is tho highest ono north of tho Isthmus of Panama, and it is the highest one on the western continent on whloh a cross has been erected. Probably it is the highost one in the world. ’ 1