Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1899 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

President McKinley has bought the Canton, Ohio, house in which fie and Mrs. McKinley began housekeeping twen-ty-eight years ago. The homestead passed out of Mr. McKinley’s possession in 1892 or thereabouts, and such time as he occupied the honse since was os a tenant. Now he has purchased it of the holder, Mrs. Harter, for $14,000. The property became famous as the “little wooden house on the hill” from the hun-

dreds of delegations of visitors received there in the 1896 campaign. It was from the porch of this house that the speeches of that campaign were delivered by Mr. McKinley. President and Mrs. McKinley have many sacred associations with this house. In it they not only set up a home, but in it their children were born and died. One hundred years ago the first savings bank was established in England. In 1861, at the suggestion of Mr. Charles

W. Sikes, savings banks were made a part of the postal department of Great Britain. Postal savings* banks have since been i opened by most of the E,u ro p e a n countries | and their establishment in this country has been urged by a number of Postmaster Generals. In the United Kingdom the number

of depositors in the postal banks is 6,862,000, and the total amount of money on deposit is $526,000,000. In the number of depositors at postal banks Italy stands second, with 3,000,000, though the total amount of deposits is only $89,000,000. Of savings banks other than those connected with the postal department Great Britain has 239, with 1,527,000 depositors and total deposits of $235,830,000. In France there are 6,630,000 depositors, 545 banks and total deposits of $652,800,000. In Russia there are 861 savings banks outside of the postal department, 000 depositors, and deposits of $198,000,000. In the United States there are 979 savings banks, with 5,385,000 depositors and deposits amounting to $2,065,000,000.

Years ago Miles B. MeSweeney was a newsboy selling papers on the streets of Charleston, S. C. Now he is Governor of

the same State. Mr. McSweeney’s father died %hen he was a small boy, and he sold papers in order to help support his i mother/- Afterwards he became a printer, I and finally, with a capital of $65, he began a few years ago the publication of a newspaper. He is now the owner of the Hampton Guardian, one of the most suc-

cessful papers of the State. In 1898 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of the State on the ticket of which William H. Ellerbe was the head. Mr. Ellerbe’s recent death leaves the chair of the chief executive to' be occupied by the former newsboy.

The people of South Amherst, Mass., are aroused at the atrocious murdei* of Edith Morrell, who fell a victim to the

bullet of a Comanche Indian named Eugene Tekahpuer, who worked on her father’s farm. The Indian fell in love with the girt, who was only 17 years old and pretty. Although the redskin was educated at the Carlisle sehooi and had mere or less polish, he was

still an Indian. Edith would have nothing to do with him. On that account he murdered her with a revolver in the cellar, where she had gone to get some butter. *

The Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffmann, D. D., dean of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, is undoubtedly

the richest clergyman in the United States, if not in the world. He is one of the two heirs of the great Hoffmann estate, valuqd at from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. The seminary of which be is the head is the most important

r • tuc uiuov luiyottaub training school of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the country. Dean Hoffmann, when rector of a fashionable church in Philadelphia, started the first workingman’s club ever organized in America. Near Dayton, Ohio, a horse strayed out. on the Miami river bridge and fell between the ties. Michael Myers discovered tiie beast Securing a lantern, he stopped the limited train within less than a bridge span of the horse. .. Postal derlca being

THE M’KINLEY HOMESTEAD.

C. W. SIKES.

M. B. M’SWEENEY.

EDITH MORRELL.

DEAN HOFFMANN.