Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1897 — NEW UNITED STATES TREASURER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW UNITED STATES TREASURER

Ellia H. Roberts) a New York Banker, Recently' Appointed. Ellis H. Roberts of New York, who has just been appointed tifeasurer of the United States by President McKinley, is the president of the Franklin National Bank of New York. He has long been prominent in national affairs. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions,of 1864, 1868 and 1876. In 1866 he was a member of the New York Legislature and in 1870 he was elected a member of Congress from the Oneida district and was re-elected in 1872. Mr. Blaine, then Speaker of the House, made Mr. Roberts, a new member, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, an unusual honor. In 1880 President Harrison appointed Mr. Roberts assistant United States 'Treasurer at New York City. In 1893 Mr. Roberts was offered the presidency of the Franklin National Bank, and accepted the place. Mr. Roberts is a widely known traveled man and has written

several books, not only on finance but on other subjects; among them may be mention etl “Greece and Beyond,” “Planting and Growth of the Empire State” and "Government Revenue,” “Especially the American System.” He is 70 years old. John A. Colson, a brother of Congressman David S. Colson, was shot and instantly killed by John Dougan, who ran a saloon at Middlesboro, Ky. Dougan has been arrested. Isaac Hoffman, one of a firm of wholesale clothiers in Sam Francisco, was found in his office in a dying with two bullet holes in his head. The police believe it to be a murder. The Pennsylvania road reports net ear*, ings m $708,767 lees than last yaar.

ELLIS H. ROBERTS.