Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — CHIPS. [ARTICLE]

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Maj. Gen. Hancock will retire in February, 1888. Bartholemew Binns, the English hangman, has been deposed for getting drunk. Mr. Winans, of Baltimore, who rents about a quarter of a million acres of deerforests in Scotland, has this season killed 150 stags. Miss Nellie Leboeche, a daring aeronaut, fell from her balloon at Eufaula, Ala., and suffered a severe shock, but had no bones broken. Editor Hendry, of the Livingston (Montana) Enterprise, says that Montana will withing five years lead all the States and Territories in mineral and meat production. In Denver one household out of every five ia without a Bible.