Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1893 — SUPREME COURT VACANCY. [ARTICLE]

SUPREME COURT VACANCY.

Death of Justice Blatchford at Newport, Rhode Island. Associate Justice Samuel Blatchford died at Newport, R. 1., Friday. Judge Blatchford was born in New York March 9, 1820; graduated at Columbia in 1837, and in 1842 was admitted to the bar. He was law partner with William H. Seward, n 1807 became United States district judge for southern New York, and in March, 1882, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. This is an exact copy of the postal card received, Tuesday, from our able North Judson correspondent, and our thousands of readers can form their own conclusions: "lull 3 I will be drunk tuda ond tumorrer and cant rite the nuso till the tail of this weak. Hopping this will sutv you Tam thine till after the fourth. ‘Jotter’.”— Starke County A crane-was killed near Goshen which measured eight feet four inches from tip of beak to toes. Ellis Hodgin, near Westfield, was gored to death by a viefous bull, Sunday.