Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — A NEW LIBERTY BELL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A NEW LIBERTY BELL.

A National Souvenir of the Columbian Y eAr. The Columbian Liberty Bell, which was to have been cast at Troy, N. Y.. on the 9th, will be completed about July 1, and it is hoped that itsrtnging will usher in the “Glorious Fourth” at 'thenWorld’s Fair. It will be the property of the “Daughters of the American Revolution,” and when not traveling to great patriotic celebrations will have a home at Washington. The bell weighs nearly 13,000

pounds and nearly every State and Territory has contributed something to go into the melting pot. The collection has included copper coin 9 from Wyoming, silver flasks from California, medals and spoons from the South, a silver fruit knife which once belonged to Lucretia Mott, the famous emancipator, forty thousand pennies from residents of New Jersey, pieces of brass cannon used in this revolutionary war, buttons from the clothing of Indian massacres, and so on through an almost endless list. It will be such a bell as has never before been molded. The bell is, excepting in the matter of size and inscription, a reproduction of the famous Liberty bell of 1776.