Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — MAIN MAST OF THE ILL-FATED MAINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAIN MAST OF THE ILL-FATED MAINE

THE collier Leonidas recently arrived at the Washington navy yard loaded with relics from the wreck at the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Among them was the main mast which it is Intended to erect in Ar- ■ llngton cemetery as a memorial to the men who lost their Ilves when the 111-fated battleship was blown np. No date has yet been fixed for the ceremony.