Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The government has decided to change the color of the 2-cent postage stamps from carmine to green. Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has succeeded in saving the old Salmon P. Chase homestead near NVashington by refunding the debt on the place. Secretary Gage’s order that postage stamps shall hereafter be greejl, met with sudden death upon the discovery that the rules of the International Postal Congress forbid any change in the color of the stamps. Chairman H. H.Hanna has completed the monetary reform commission, the eleven members being Professor J. L. Laughlin, Chicago; Louis A. Gaifriett, San Francisco; George F. Edmunds, Vermont; Charles S. Fairchild, New York; Stuyvesant Fish, New York; Stewart Patterson, Pennsylvania; T. G. Rash, Louisiana; J. NV. Fries, North Carolina; NV. B. Dean, Minnesota: George E, Leighton, Missouri, and Robert S. Taylor, Indiana.