Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — COMMONWEAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

COMMONWEAL NOTES.

Kelley’s fleet arrived at St. Louis, Monday? The division is in hard lines. §5 Captain Artz, recently recently removed from the Attorney-Generalship of Kansas, by Governor Lewelling, will lead a commonweal division from Topeka to Washington. Galvin’s army numbers 125. They were in camp six miles north of Baltimore, over Sunday, and expect to reach Washington this week, Randall’s reserve were at Lima, O.', Sunday. They now number but 303. General Fry, just before leaving Cincinnati, received a commission from Coxey as comander-in-chief of the commonweal army of the United States, and has gone to Hyattsville, Md., where he will make his headquarters. Three hundred and seventy-five Coxeyites reached Denver from Salt Lake City, Monday. Fry’s army reached Maysville, Ky., Wednesday. An attempt will be made to take the case of the Coxey leaders into the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

□ Gen. O. O. Howard retires as senior commanding officer of the army next autumn and the half dozen officers eligible to promotion are looking forward to the vacancy and enlisting the aid of their friends.