Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — GIFT OF THREE MILLION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIFT OF THREE MILLION.

John D. RrckeFeller’s La cat Present t • Univers ty of Chicago. The University of Chicago han again bean the recipient of John D. Rockefeller's beneficerice. He has given $3,000,-

000 to tlie institution under condition* which will ultimately net it $5,000,000. One million dollars of this sum is given outright as an endowment and the remaining S2,OOO,<MX) will be placed in the hands of the trustees provided $2,000,000, additional

are raised before the year 1900. If the full $2,1X10,000 is not raised by that time Mr. Rockefeller will give as much as the subscriptions amount to)' Intelligence of this donation was recelrelT’“Saturday morning at a special meeting of the trustees called for the i>urjH»se of listening to a proposition from F. T. Gates,! the personal representative Mr. Roi-kefeller. Mr. Rockefeller has given to the University of Chicago the grand total of $7,425,000, given in installments ns follows: May, 1889, fdOO.OOO; September. 1890, $1,060,000; Febrttary, 1802, $1,000,000; December, 1802, JI,000.000; May. 1893, $150,009; Jnlyj 18!M. $500,000; December, 1894, $175,000; November, 1895, $3, 000,000. Convicts, In eamp on the Fort Worth Road made a dash for liberty. The guards killed one and wounded two. Several escaped.

J. D. ROCKEFELLER.