Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — Mere Threatening Letters in Newton County. [ARTICLE]

Mere Threatening Letters in Newton County.

According to the Kentland Enterprise, Commissioner Skinner, of Newton county, received the following letter last Tuesday, postmarked at Morocco: Mr. Skinner: Your resignation is demanded by 92 per cent of your constituents. You are going out of that office, if not as requested you will go out by other means, and if other means have to be used you will beg for mercy on your bended knees. Have jour resignation in by Jan. 6th, or there will« something doing at once. There will be no more notices given you. If you fail you will see some sights. This is the seoond letter of'similar purport received by Mr. Skinner, and the Goodland Herald states that Henry Griggs, while he was commissioner, received about six like it, and all from Morocco. There must be some cne half baked scoundrel there who is responsible for all of them, and all good citizens of Morocco as well as the rest of Newton county, should do everything possible to detect and punish him. The state prison is the only proper place for such a villian.