Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — GEORGE E. ROBERTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEORGE E. ROBERTS.

The New Director of the Mint la an lowa Newspaper Man. George E. Roberts, nominated to be director of the mint, lives at Fort Dodge, lowa, is a noted writer on economic top-

ics and a warm advocute of the gold standard. Mr. Roberts began his career ns a printer in the office of tjic Fort Hodge Messenger, and before bo bad arrived nt bis majority be was part owner of the plant, and a few years afterward its sole owner. Mr. Roberts won a reputation during the last presidential campaign by bis reply to Harvey's “Coin's Financial School,” and more thnh 150,000 copies of bis book were bought4>y the peojde. 110 has occupied prominent public positions in lowa and has been a political leader for several years. Henry Goettel, a young German baker after making a confession to the Sheriff nt St. Augustine to the effect that Ilerman Breetz and himself wrecked a passenger train near Rivera on the Florida East coast,, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel in jail.

CEOROE E. ROBE RTS.