Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — A NEW LIBERTY BELL. [ARTICLE]

A NEW LIBERTY BELL.

Rare coins and souvenirs of gold and silver, are accumulating in large quantities in Troy, N. Y., where they will enter Into the composition of the 13,000 pound Liberty Bill, which the Daughters of the Revolution propose to place on exhibition at the World’s Fair. This great bell will be cast on April 30, that date being the anniversary of George Washington’s first Inauguration as President. It Is expected that Mrs. Cleveland will on thatday press an electric bell in the White House which shall give the signal in the foundry at Troy to let the molten metal flow. Contributions of valuable metallic articles, some of peculiar historic interest, have thus far been received from various sections of the country. They include gold rings and bracelets, old coins, silver spoons, cups and sword hilts and bronze ornaments. Robert T. Lincoln sent a link from the gold watch chain worn by the martyred President at the time that he was shot. A patriotic woman forwarded a bronze cup once used in the family of Thomas Jefferson. Each of the express companies has agreed to carry articles given for this bell from any part of the country to Troy free of charge, if weigh? ing less than ten pounds. \ ' ■■ The Russian treaty, which has not as yet been ratified by the United States Senate, granting extradition for political offenses, 1$ being discussed by men of all stations. G. Stepnick, the noted Russian patriot, now in Now York, Tuesday, issued a lengthy address to the American people in favor of the right of asiylum for Russian political offenders. He condemns the treaty in the strongest terms and declares that its provisions in effect make the United States, if it shall be ratified, a party to the perpetuation of the most infamous and inexcusable tyranny ou the globe.

The bureau of American Reoubllcs Is Informed of the arrival In New York of the steamer Newport from South America on Saturday bringing twenty-two Bolivian Indians, direct descendants from the Incas, who resided within the confines of their nations on one of the islands in Lake Titicaca. The Indians are fairly well civilized, following for a living agricultural and mining pursuits, and all of them havo landed possessions and money at hand. Among the numbor Is a giant measuring more than seven feet, who is a powerful chieftain among 4ils people. 'Ao President, Tuesday, sent to the Senate the names of Daniel M. Moraan, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer of tho United States, vico E. 11. Nebcker, resigned; Conrad N. Jordan, of New Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York; E. 11. Stroble,of New York, to bo Third Assistant Secretary of State. A considerable list of comparatively unimportant nominations was also transmitted.