Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — A WESTERN FIRE-EATER. [ARTICLE]

A WESTERN FIRE-EATER.

Populist Prophet Predicts Powerful Bed Times Ahead. At Topeka, Kas., Tuesday, Secretary es State Osborn said, when speaking in an Interview of the arrest of Coxey and Browne: “I want to make this prediction: There will be no overt act until the next election, then simultaneous with the returns flames will shoot up into the air from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and every palatial residence will be destroyed in this uprising of the people. Woe onto them then who have sought to stay this tide of the past six months. “The farmers are preparing for this; they are selling a horse or a cow and baying Winchesters, and many mechanics art doing the same.” 6E. P, Myers has served as postmaster al Jewell for nineteen yeafs and for the past two years has tried to resign, but the 'Department refused to appoint a successor. Tuesday he walked into the postoffice al Kokomo bearing a sack filled with the beiongingsof the Jewtill postoffice,and dumping it down on the floor, he exclaHned: “Here’s your postoffice; I don’t want it any longer. I’ve tried to resign and have tiled to give it away, bnt nobody seems tc want It, so I just brought it in. There shi Is.” The postmaster at Kokomo took charge of the effects, and he has discontinued mail at Jewell pending orders Iron the Depart**®**