Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — LOST HIS ROCKS AND SOCKS. [ARTICLE]

LOST HIS ROCKS AND SOCKS.

Not long since a car-works employe of Jeffersonville drew his salary, paid his tobacco and beer bill, and then divided the balance and hid it in his socks. In the meantime his wifo, who sews for the government, drew her pay and purchased her husband a new pair of socks and threw the old pair containing his money into the stove, and four *5 bills were cremated.

Ex-Secretary Whitney, In a lengthy Interview at Beverly Farms, Mass., Thursday, heaftllv Indorsed President Cleveland's policy bf urging a repeal of the Sherman law, and condemned ex-Presi-dent Harrison for predicting fresh disaster from any attempt to change existing tariff laws. Mr. Whitney thinks that an overwhelming majority of representatives of all the people of this country can be trusted to legislate In the Interests of the people as a whole. Tlio Siamese foreign minister, Devawongse, expresses astonishment at the movements of France in the withdrawal of diplomatic relstihqs. He sayslt was •impossible to give a definite answer to an indefinite proposition. The king hag deto abandouj^Maa