Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD.

Huge Bowlder Will Mark the Keating Place of Buffalo Soldier*. Thomas H. McDonnell, president of the Quincy Granite Railroad Company of Massachusetts, has gone to Buffalo to superintend the setting up of a- large bowlder. The bowlder is rated as weigh-

Ing forty tons, although the workmen who were engaged in moving it 300 yards In order to put it aboard a car say that It must weigh between fifty and sixty tons. It required fifteen workmen to move it and jack 1 it so as ro g'ff'tt'ab'Sard a car, and the purchaser of it is the city of Buffalo. This large bowlder will be set up in the contmon of the Queen City VS K memoriaHo the unknown soldiers of the city who perished in the civil war.

BOWLDER WEIGHS FORTY TONS.