Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — AN IMPERIAL UKASE. [ARTICLE]

AN IMPERIAL UKASE.

A special dispatch to the London Times from St. Petersburg says: “The most important reform of a retrogressive and centralizing character yet executed by the .present Czar in the administration is announced in an imperial ukase bearing date of May 18. The ukase has struck the entire, Russian official world with consternation. The ukase. deprives all the minis-, ters, governors and otherHiigh dignitaries of the power they have hitherto freely exercised of appointing and dismissing their officials, subordinates of all classes and establishes under the Czar’s direct supervision, the special committee of control which has existed for years under Czar Nicholas.

Thomas Prescott, who lived about ten miles north of Columbia City, met a violent death, Friday afternoon. He was working in Mr. Rous’s sawmill, and while employed in the pit his head camo in contact with the saw and was sawed almost in two. He was forty years old and leaves three children, his wife havingdied in the asylum for tho insane about a year ago.

Little Jennie Creek, the mere child who saved the lives of a World’s Fair trainload of passengers on the P. C. C. & St, L. railroad a mile from Millgrove station on Sept. 10.1893. has been decorated by the French Society of the Legion of Honor. Her medal arrived, Thursday, and the little mhiden.now wears it with all the dignity of a tattlefield hero. It is a sixpointed star of solid gold, highly wrought, bearing the mqtto of the French Society, the name of tho little heroine and the deed for which she is honored. 11. F. Wilkie, a prominent real estate dealer at Elwood, has left for unknown parts to avoid prosecutions said to be impending for crookedness. D. P. Erwin, proprietor of the Denison hotel, Indianapolis, has written a letter to R. B. Bagsby. attorney for Chas. 11. Stewart, the colored man ejected from the hotel elevator during the Republican State convention, apologizing for the indignity and sstating that tho employe, who ejected Stewart, had been discharged. Mr. Erwin also paid Stewart S3OO damages. Miss Anna Howard was killed by lightning at Muncie. Sunday. Young Man—l wish your opinion, sir, as to whether your daughter would make me-a good wife? Lawyer—No, sir, slid would noL Five dollars, please.