Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — IN GENERAL [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL

Recent compilations show Senator Shernian one of eleven children to begin with, to be how thirty-seven times an uncle and the granduncle tp sixty-three children. Obituary: At Cincinnati, ex-Congress-mari H, S. Bundy, 78.—At (Irand _ ids, Mich., Col. Van E. Young, 73.—At McLeansboro, 111., E. W. Ledbetter.—At Galena, 111., Charles Fleck: James Birk--OIS -Obituary—At Freeport, —111.,_.D. W, Dane, 76; 4it Warsany lnd., Professor E. J. McAlpine; at Rockford, 111., Frank Benjamin. 76; at Kalamazoo, Mich., J. Warren Taylor. at Day ton,- Ohio, CharleS G. Grimes;’'at.-Tecumseh, Mich., Scovel 'C. Stacy; at'Wardner, Idaho, Jack Langrishe. ; "‘Tlie~Afiieric'iin Uiiiversity_has just com : pleted an agreement with* the Board of Council of the Temperance Educational Association, by which the latter agrees to secure and transfer to the university $250,000 on condition that here shall be inaugurated as one of its departments a college of scientific temperance. • The. contract recently let by the Canadian Government for the carrying pf the mails from Juneau, Alaska, to Forty Mile Creek is in-the disputed territory to which claim is laid both by the United States and by Canada, and the establishment of the mail service-is calculated to further complicate the boundary dispute. Thp secrat service officials have disepyered a. new counterfeit S2O United States notes of the series of ISBO with the portrait of Hamilton poorly engraved. The paper shows red ink lines in imitation of silk fiber. The lettering is very poor/ Nineteen of the,notes were found on the-uperson of Louis Smith, who has been arrested at Toledo, Ohio, pwhere he had already passed five of them. He is believed to be new in the business.