Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — SECOND CALL TO BUSINESS MEN [ARTICLE]

SECOND CALL TO BUSINESS MEN

Are Asked to Assemble in Indianapolis Jan. 25. The convention of business men which met in Indianapolis last January and authorized the appointment of the monetary commission will be called together again for the purpose of considering the commission’s report. This was decided upon at a meeting of the.executive committee of the convention Wednesday in Washington. < The new convention will be held m Indianapolis on Tuesday, Jan. 25. The invitation will go out, as before, to all boards of trade, commercial clubs and similar organizations in all cities of the United States having a population of 8,000 or more. The executive committee determined upon this course with a view to crystallizing public opinion in support of the report of the monetary cnmmfesion, in case the plan presented by the commission shall commend itself to the business community. Bev. Father Pribyl, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church at Bridgeport, Conn., from the altar divulged a conspiracy to assassinate him. His statement astounded his congregation and after the *er> vices the priest gave the police the names of the conspirators and sufficient evidence to warrant prosecution. For four hours a score of Georgia State Senators were locked up in the capital, guarded* by doorkeepers with clubs. They lacked three of a quorum and had hundred* of bills to act upon at once, henna* the session is about to close.