Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — Frank Rowen and children. [ARTICLE]

Frank Rowen and children.

William Blaikle, prominent as an abolitionist leader in the days proceeding the civil war, is dead at bis home in Utica, N. Y. He was 83 years old. Mr. Blaikle was a close friend of Roscoe Conkling. Blaikie’s home was a well known station on the “underground railroad," and he aided in the escape of more than 1,200 slaves. It Is announced from Rome that the Pope has struck off from the list of candidates for the cardinalate all Americans, including the Archbiphops of New York, St. Paul, Chicago and New Orleans. The chancellery of the -Vatican confirms this without volunteering an explanation.