Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — POSTOFFICE SAFE BLOWN. [ARTICLE]

POSTOFFICE SAFE BLOWN.

Michigan Robbers Secure $1,500 and. Some Stamps at Omer. A party of bandits at an early hour Friday morning blew open the safe in the postoffice at Omer, Mich., and carried away about $1,500 in money and a quantity of stamps and valuable papers. The robbery occurred a few minutes after the village night watchman had passed the building in which the postoffice is Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has made public a letter from OapL Henry Taylor of the battleship Madison, in which a denial is made of the report that the vessel was seriously damaged while being docked at Halifax. A slight buckling occurred, but repairs are not necessary at present. The resignation of Second Lieutenant Gordon Voorhies, Fourth cavalry, has been accepted by the President Assistant Surgeons Charles Richards and Geo. McCreery have been ordered to examination for promotion.