Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — OLD LANDMARK GONE. [ARTICLE]

OLD LANDMARK GONE.

A TOWN IN MASSACHUSETTS MOURNS ITS LOSS. Cldcat Church in the District Succumbs to Flumes -Getters! Harrison 'Announces t hsT He T*~?foT a CsnAldute—No Warships for Turkey. f Church at Dorchester Burned. The historic First Unitarian Church, etr “Meetioß-House HiH.'V Dorchester, Mass., a familiar landmark and the oldest church in the district, was destroyed by fire Monday. The loss is estimated at $30,000, but this amount is covered by insurance.. The nlost valuable hppurtenanoes of the church, which were kept in the vestry at the rear, were saved. A new organ. presented by Deacon Henry Humphrey in 1802, which was directly above the place where the fire started, and the clock and chime of bells in the tower are a total loss. firemen were buried' by a falling wall, but they, were rescued by their comrade*. Harrison Says No. Gen. Benjamin Harrison is no longer a candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Captain John K. Gowdy, chairman of the Indiana Republi can State .Central Committee, called on Gen. Harrison at Indianapolis Monday evening byidnvitation, and the ex-Presi-<deut handejd him a letter' in which he announced that he was not a candidate for the presidency, and expressed a wish that bis name bejnot presented at the St. Ixmis convention. Uncle Sim Not to Force Turkey. A dispatch to the St. James Gazette, London, from Washington says the eorrespondentlof that paper has the highest authority f{>r announcing that the entente between Russia and Turkey is known at the State |Department and that it has bad a most:important effect in modifying the plan the administration hail prepared to compel Turkey to pay an indemnity for the damage 1 done to American property in Armenia. Columbia, Texas, Inundated. The Brazos River is rising at Columbia, Texas. 1 It rose fifteen feet in twen-ty-six hours, awl its current is equal to that of a mountain stream. Seven vessels belonging to the Columbia Tramp port at ion Company were swept away. The river isj now out of its banks and is sweeping oyer the surroundinig ■country. Near NaVasjota the Brazos and Navasota Rivers have; united and are twelve miles wide. MileA of Santa Fe Railroad track •re submerged.