Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1887 — BEN BUTLER ON DECK. [ARTICLE]

BEN BUTLER ON DECK.

He is Banqueted ar. Boston and Makes a Speech. He Favor* a Service Pension for Union Sol. dier*, and the Giving of What in I,eft to Ex-Confederates—He Shows No Loss of Vigor in Jits Remarks. The Butler Club,of Boston, banqueted Gen, B. F. Butler Thursday night, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the capture of Fort-HaUeras. A large number of the General’s friends were present, including Mayor O’Brien, Hon. George 8. Boutwell, Gen. Wm. Cogswell, Hon. N. A. Plymptop, Gen. Stephen Thomas, Gen. Cilley, Department Commander Nash. Corporal Tanner and many other well-known gentlemen. Gen. Butler in ’ a Hpeeeh advocated greenbacfeism, and i dec’ared that every theory of finance he i had. ever’held had eventually been adopted. He blamed the Democratic party for the accumulation of the vast surplus in the treasury and the impairment of the country’s businessinterests. The surplus ought to be used in paying service pensions to Union soldiers and after they had all been provided for the country should devote the surplus to administering to the interests of the disabled confederate soldiers. They were not to blame for the war, but only suffered fro n it. [Applause.] He advocated this in Congress seventeen years ago and been much a'oused for it. Corporal Tanner, the next speaker, heartily indorsed Ge eral Butler’s scheme for a service pension. He thought President Cleveland made a great mistake in. not going to St- Louis. If a few offered him the insult, the great mass of the Grand Army would take these men by the throat and silence them forever. [Great applause.] The Grand Army of the Republic, he said, will never refuse loyalty to the man who occupies the seat made immortal by Lincoln. Hon. Leopold Morse and others- also spoke, and let' <io read from General Slicin' ’ t •>• Mahone and other p' -tfiirvellous Recovery. A marvellous recovery is reported from Tolono, 111. Aug. 13 Frank McCann, an eight year old boy, was struck in the head with a baseball bat. \His skull was fractured j.ist below the brain line, and a considerable quantity of his brain excaped through the opening. ‘Eminent physicians pronounced the wound almost necessarily fatal, and wanted to perform an operation, blit the parentsohj' (tel. The little boy rallied, however, and is now apparently about as well as before the accident occurred. ——" - . - Ohio’s Oil Gusher. An oil well on the Foltz farm, twelve miles north of Findlay, was Monday and an immense flow of oil s tr UC k. The oil spouted up Ui a steady stream, sixty feet above the derrick, and could not be controlled for some time. When connected with tanks the oil filled four 250-barrel tanks in three hours. This is at the rate of 8,000 barrels per day, but it will probably drop to 5,000. It is the largest well in the Ohio field.