Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — LAFAYETTE FUND GROWING. [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE FUND GROWING.

Fchool Children lluve Contributed Over $30,000. Contributions from the school children of the country to the fund for erectinn a lAonumcnt to Gen. Lafayette in Paris it Is thought will reach SIOO,OOO. Pennsylvania and Ohio have each contributed $20,iKM) nnd Illinois over SIO,OOO. No contributions from New York Htute have been received, as the superintendent of the schools forbade a collection. Commissioner General Peck says the monument will probably be uuvellud July 4, UUU,