Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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City police were called upon at Pittsbung to eject unruly delegates at the prohibition party’s national convention Wednesday. The trouble arose over the motion of a silver delegate to substitute a I broad-ganger tor the single-issue man who had been chosen by the national committee for temporary chairman. He was howled down and the anti-silver crowd •cored the first Victory. Mr». W. H. Hanner, parachute per- I former and gymnast, was drowned In Back river Tuesday evening it Balti more, Md. She made a successful ascent