Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — AN OLD LANDMARK GONE. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD LANDMARK GONE.

An old landmark of £olumbus was removed, Wednesday morning. It was a large elm tree in tho rear of the Farley Hotel, or old “Elm House,” one of the first hostelrics in the county. This was a good-sized tree when the first cabin was built in Columbus, and was the tree upon which Jones and Herron, two murderers, wore hung, October 30,1835, the only legal hangings that ever took place in the county. This tree has always been pointed out to the stranger as an historical relic.