Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — BOER COLONEL IS ELECTED. [ARTICLE]

BOER COLONEL IS ELECTED.

Arthur l.ynch Chosen to a K«at In British Parliament. Galway dispatch; Arthur Eynch Colonel of the Second Irish Brigade In the Boer army, has been elected to a seat in Parliament. It is freely declared by his opponents that he will not he permitted to take his seat, and evep that he will-be arrested on the chaige of high treason the moment he steps foot on British soil. The election of Col. Lynch was generally anticipated, but his plurality is greater than even his supporters had expected. He received 1,247 votes, against 473 cast for liis opponent, Horace Plunkett, the Unionist candidate. At jthe last election the Nationalists lost the seat.