Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS.

A Remarkable Woman Is Mrs. Alarill Al. Ricker, of Dover, N. H. ■ Airs. Alnrilla AI. Ricker, lawyer, suffragist and philanthropist of Dover, N. H., has created no little excitement in political circles by her announcement that slie intends to run, for Congress from her district. Although a woman without the ballot and with no political pull except ability and service in behalf of her party, she nevertheless causes her political opponents no little worry. She is a strong adversary and hard to beat in a fair eontest. She is a statesman in every sense of the word except that of sex, but she fully expects that the day is not far distant when sex will be no barrier to women entering any field of activity for which she is fitted and has inclination. Twenty-six years ago her husband died and left his wife with mouns sufficient to allow her to follow the legal bent of her mind. She went to Washington, entered a lawyer’s office, and after close application to the law for three years was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. She was the only woman of a class of nineteen who applied for admission to the bar. She has since been admitted to the United States Supreme Court, and is also a member of the bar of Utah, and since 1885 has been United States commissioner and an examiner in the chancery in the District of Columbia. , V, v A. W. Tilton, a young fanner, living near Belle Plaine, Kan., was killed in an unusual manner. His windmill being out of order, he had gone up to fix it, when a strong gust of wind set the Wheel to revolving, catching his coat and choking him to death. NeaT Frankfort, Del., W. S. Long killed a black snake that had a gold finger ring around its body. Hie ring had undoubtedly been around the make’s body a long time, as It was deeply imbedded, and could not be removed until the snake had been cut In two.