Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — OF THE CRUCIFIXION [ARTICLE]

OF THE CRUCIFIXION

IS PILATE’S REPORT IN THE POPE’S PALACE? A Report Dated 149 A. D. Has Really Been Fonnd, that Refers to an Karlier Rccprd Mach American Grain Goins to Euroi>e. An Ancient Paper. . A dispatch to the New York World from Rome says: “The World correspondent visited the Vatican to obtain authoritative information regarding the reported finding in the Vatican archives of Pontius Pilate's report to Emperor Tiberius of the crucifixion of Christ. One story eurent was that the original report had been found and that the Pope had ordered a careful study of it. Another was that the document discovered was not Pilate’s own report, but a manuscript of A. D. 149 referring to it, while other fragmentary writings of the third and fifth centuries touching the same matter had come to light also. The eorrespvndent found the Vatican authorities very reticent. The sub-keeper of the Vatican archives said: ‘His Holiness naturally is extremely cautious about permitting the publication of any document with the imprint of the holy see, the auther.ticity of which may afterward be reasonably contested.’ The correspondent gathered that the manuscript of A. D. 149 only refers to the earlier report, and contains no details from it of any value, and that a careful, exhaustive search for the original is now being made in the Vatican muniment room by experts specially commissioned by the Holy Father, who are alss to search for references to it in documents written earlier than A, 11.149.*’

Grain for Europe. There are twenty-seven steamships now in t«ort or under charter at Philadelphia to load grain for European ports. Most of the-grain will be shipped in the next few weeks. These steamers will carry an aggregate of 3.10(1,000 bushels of corn and wheat. So fnr this year the shipments of corn have aggregated nearly 22.000,000 bushels, as against less than 7,000,000 in 1890, and of wheat 3,993,889 bushels, compared with 3,840,616 last year. Durrant Must Hang. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the derision of the Circuit Court for the California district refusing a writ of habeas corpus to William Henry Theodore Durrant, under sentence of death for the murder of Miss Blanche Lamont in San Francisco in April, 1895. The decision permits the law to take its course with the condemned man.