Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — A STATUE OF LINCOLN. [ARTICLE]

A STATUE OF LINCOLN.

.Eli Mate's ®4ft to the City of Chicago. The ceremony of the unveiling of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, which took place at Chicago, Saturday, drew an immense concourse of people to Lincoln park. This notable work is the gift of the late Eli Bates, of Chicago, who in his will bequeathed 540,000 for its erection. It is a most admirable presentment of the form and features of the martyred President. It is of heroic size, measuring from foot to crown nearly twelve feet. Mr. St. Gaudons, the sculotor by whom it was designed, has devoted three years to its completion. The figure stands detached before a chair of state, as though the President had just arisen to receive a petition or a delegation. The left leg is advanced,the body resting mainly on the right. The left hand grasps the lapel of the long frock coat, which is unbuttoned, and the right hand is held with the arm at length behind the body. The head is inclined slightly forward. The statue was unveiled and formally presented to the people at 3 o’clock by Thomas F. Withrow, on behalf of the Bates bequest. Young' Abraham Lincoln, a grandson of the President, and son of Robt. Lincoln, witndrew the veil from the figure- Hon. W. C. Goady, repreresenting the board of park’commissioners, accepted the gift, and Leonard Swett delivered an oration on Abraham Lincoln. The exercises were alike interesting and impressive. Seats were erected in the park for 1,000 specially invited guests, including many of the more prominent residents of the city and State, as well as visitors from abroad. The figure is in bronze, and is said to be the finest and most artistic achievement in sculptor’s art yet attained by an American artist. Shocking Tragedy in lowa. ' A shocking tragedy occurred at Maxwell, Story county, lowa, Saturday night. Ackers started out about 5 o’clock, bent on destroying somebody. He borrowed a revolver from a hardware store on pretext that he wanted to shoot a dog,but he went straight to the office of Justice of the Peace Schmeltzer, and, asking him if he was ready to take his medicine, administered it without further explanation, shooting him in the leftJower jaw, the ball passing down and out by the shoulder blade ? He next enteredthe office of Mayor Trench? and; stealing up behind him, sent a bulletin'to bis brain The Mayor never Uttered a word, but died within an hour. The murderer then passed into the street, his erimes as yet being and meeting several citizens he talked in a threatening manner about evening up old scoresand’brandisbing his revplve.-

■ - • freely, Passing on to the entrance, to Odd-fellows’ Hall, be said good-bye to the postmaster on the way, remarking that he was going to hell, and then shot himself, dying immediately. Ackers was a shiftless fellow, who had been for some time an object of suspicion, bat no on© expected any such startling tragedy as came. STORM ON THE LAKES. Several Ships Lost and Much Suffer! Rn A gale and snowstorm of great magnitude set in on the lakes early Sunday morning and continued throughout the day. The wind blew forty-five miles an hour and the blinding snow storm made navigation exceedingly dangerous. The steamer George Sherman struck Shot Point, ten miles from Marquette, Mich., and became a total wreck The crew were saved. The Alva Bradley struck near the same place, and wasalso wrecked, with no loss of life. The crew of the. Sherman, after regphin j land, wandered around in the woods several hours, suffering intensely from the j enow and cold. They finally reached a ra l-oad flagged a train and were carried to Marquette. The steamer J. F. Joy was wrecked off Ashtabula, O. No loss of life. Many other casualties are reported. ON LAND. The storm was very severe at Buffalo, and did considerable damage. Damage in the immediate vicinity of Cincinnati " isestima ed at $50,000. Hon. E. B. Washburne Dead. The Hon. E. B. Washburne, ex-min-ister to France, and one of the most distinguished men brVie West, die.l at the home of his son in Chicago, Saturday afternoon, of congestion of the heart and brain.

Mr. Washburne was born in Maine in 1816, and from a farmer’s boy rose to a printer’s apprentice,then a lawyer,States man and diplomate. Honesty, integrity and ability marked his whole career. He was elected to Congress in 1852 from the Galena, 111., district, where he settled in 1840, and served in Congresa continuously “ until -1869. During the war legislation he so persistently and determinedly opposed and fought steals and jobs that he earned the'name of the “Watch-dog jof the Treasury.” Mr. Washburne was always a warm admirer of General Grant, and the first act of General Grant after he became President, was to appoint Mr. Washburne Secretary of State. 11l health, however, soon compelled Mr. Washburne to resign that position, and he accepted the post of minister to France, wb filled with marked ability for nim and resigned on the election of Zj-. Hayes. X The State departments at Washington were dosed to public business,Thursday, the day of the funeral, out of respect to the memory of the late Mr. Washburne. The remains were interred at Galena. i Mr. and Mr*. Cleveland at Home, President and Mrs. Cleveland and party reached Washington, Saturday. Both the President and Mrs. Cleveland will live in comparative retirement throughout the winter, as Mrs. Cleveland’s health has been impaired by the fatigue and excitement attending the President’s protracted journey throughout the west. A gentleman wno saw the Presidential party in Montgomery says that while Mr. Cleveland looks none the worse for the trip, it has had a manifest effect upon Mrs. Cleveland, whose health has always been more or lesss delicate and she will need a lengthened rest before she can again undertake the duties inseparable from her position as mistress of the White house. Bad Ministers. Pastor Miller of the Washington Street M. E. church, and Pastor Decker of the East Congregational church, both of Brooklyn, N. Y., were suspended from their respective pulpit Wedneeday, on account of improper conduct toward we men.