Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — A FALLEN MONARCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A FALLEN MONARCH.

A Hoosier Giant Falls Before Civilization’s Onward March, The New York Sunday Sun says: An oak log remarkable for its size and weight is lying on the dock at the foot of East Eleventh street. It is the property of George Hagemeyer & Sons. The log w-as cut on the farm of Uncle Sammy Scoggens,

two and a half miles southeastof Bedford, Ind. It was intended for exhibition at the World’s Fair, but after felling it the •base was found to be rotten and had to be cut off. This materially lessened the size of the log. It is 40 feet long, feet in diameter at the base, 4% feet at the top weighs 17X tons, and is thought to be 400 years old. The log was brought from the West on two flat-cars. It will have to be blasted to cut it in two, as no sawmill tn New York can handle a stick over twentyeight feet in length. The mbnster will be cut up into counter tops. Ben Serinfe, a young traveling man from Madison, arrived in Columbus, Thursday, and registered at the Belvedere hotel. Upon asking if any mail had arrived for him he was given a letter, which he opened in the presence of Landlord Johnson. It contained a check on the Madison National BariKfor 135, signed by Bering’s father, an ex-banker of Madison. The landlord cashed the check, but when he sent it to Madison for collection it was pronounced a forgery. Bering's father refused to make the amount good, and the forger was arrested Saturday in Indianapolis, where he was going under an assumed name. ‘