Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1901 — Roots Soldier Boy Ordered Shot. [ARTICLE]

Roots Soldier Boy Ordered Shot.

The Gbicago Daily News printed a telegram from Manila Saturday night that a soldier boy by the • name ot Skinner from Routs, | Ind., who was on picket duty in the Philippines, bad been found asleep at his post and was coart martialed and sentenced to be shot on Ghrismas day.