Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — Gunboat a Hoodoo. [ARTICLE]

Gunboat a Hoodoo.

The old gunboat Bennington, which was one of the early vessels of the new navy, and whose career caused her to be regarded as a hoodoo ship, is reported from California to have been Bold to the Mexican government It was while lying in San Diego harbor some years ago that one of her hollers bnntt, killing five of the crew and seriously wounding a score of others. Boon afterward she was sold for old Junk, and the Junk men, after removing her fixtures, endeavored to blow out her interior portiou* with dynamite. 7. 7 -7 p. ■■ .'<• ■ - ■ » ; 1