Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-12-10
THE NEW SPEAKER

THE NEW SPEAKER
Gen. Refer, Of Ohio, Nominated on 18th Raj.
lot-Edward Mcpherson, Of .Pennsylvania
for Clerk.
At the republican congressional cauous on
Saturday ell the members were present except-
ing John D. White, of Kentucky. Mr.. Robeson,
OF New Jersey, Mr.. Keifer's champion. was
made chairman, Mr.. Miller Of Pennsyiyania
secretary, and Messrs. McCook of New York,
oPaegran OF Iowa, and Mcclure Of Ohio
= assistant secretaries and tellers
II was voted that no speeches be made in pre-
senung names and that each candidate might
name friend to cast his ballot The frat hal.
lot resulted as follows: Keifer, 50: Hiscock.
Il; kasson, IS; Reed, IL; Burrows. 10:
Orth, 8; Dunnell, 8. Total 145.
Inc succeeding ballots were reported at in
tervals Of about twenty minutes. HE chances
from l. one candidate to another were very slight.
MI. REFERS vote ranged between 81 and Sc
up to the thirteenth ballot. Mr.. Hiscock,s
votes swung between 40 and 80. MI. Reed
jumped from 13 at the start to 20 on the
severn seven5n ballot and back again to IL on the
above 20 votes. Mr.. Burrows' 10 votes clune
closely to him, az did the 8 votes of Indiana.
and the votes of Minnesota for Mr.. DnnneliI
Occasionally the latter candidate would receive
an 4do1uOn OF one to his forces,
Mr.. Keifer, who had received ffty-eight
votes on the preceding ballot, climbed mn tn
sixtv:one. Mr. Orth, Mr. Kasson and Mr.. Hiso
cock were the losers New York voted for Mr..
Hiscoc k to the last In the succeeding ballot
Mr.. Kelfer received ninety three votes and the
nomination. The Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin
and New England people came into the Keifer
camp. The Minnesota delegation stood
to the last by Mr.. Dunnell Mr.. Keifer
made brief speech accepting the nomination.
Edward Mcpherson former clerk Of the house
under Republican rule was nominated
clerk; q. ". Hooker Of Vermont to be sergeant
alarms, Mr.. Sherwood of Michigan to be post
master. Mr.. Brownlow of Tennessee to be
d 400 k zee and Reg. DR.: Power Of
to be chaplain. Dr.. Power is pastor
THE NEXT SPEAKER.
Joseph Warren Refer of Springfield was
born in Bethel township, Clark county. jan
uary ~, 1885. He was reared on q farm
college; commenced the study of law in
Springfield in 1856; was admitted to practice
January l, 1858, and practiced his profession
at the last named place until April ~. 1851
when he volunteered in the Union armv:
was commissioned majnr of the Third Ohio
noted to be lieutenaat colonel of the same
regiment February IL, 1862; was appointed
colonel OF the 10th Ohio volunteer infantrv
september ~, 1862; was severely wounded Al
the battle Of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864 A.
ter having served in campaigns in the field in
West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala
b b4na d;oa ana Georgia. he was appointed
80, 1854, 'for gallant and me Sdtous
services in the battles Of Opequan,
Fishers Hill and Cedar creek. Va" was a.
signed to duty by President Lincoln as briea-
der general December 20, 1864; was a.
pointed Pe July l, 1865, major general by brevet
the campaign ending in the surrender Of the
lnsurgent army under Gen. R. E. Lee;" was
mustered out Of service June 81, 1865, having
been in the Union army four years and two
months, and four times wounded; resumed
the practice of law at Springfield, Ohio.
in July, 1865; was appointed with.
out solicitation lieutenant colonel of the TWEEN
y, sixth United States infantry, November 80
1866, but declined the appointment; WAS a
member of the Ohio state senate in 1868 '69:
was the commander of the department of Ohio,
g. A. R., for the years 1S6S-'7O, and was
elected vice commander chief Of that organ
ization May =, 1879; was trustee of the Ohio
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans home from its
APRIL iS 1885, 1879, state to ns sHthhort
1873, when he resigned; has been trustee of
Antioch college since June 80, 1873; was
delegate at large from Ohio to lie national re-
publican convention at Cincinnati in June,
1876; was representative from Ohio in the
Fortyf fifth and Forty sixth congresses, and
reelected to the Forty-seventh congress az a
republican, receiving 81, 1872 votes, against
1864 votes for Chance (dem).
What is the Extreme Limit of Human
Lifeg
From the Popular Science Monthly.
Can man reach and pass the age of 100
years? is question concerning which phys-
biologists have different opinions. Button
was the first one in France to raise the
question of the extreme limit of human life.
In his opinion, man becoming adult al
l6, ought to live six times that age, or to SO
years. Having been called upon to account
for the phenomenal ages attributed by the
Bible to the patriarchs, he risked the fol-
towing as an explanation: Before the
Hood the earth was less solid, less compact
than it is low. The law of gravitation had
acted for only little time; the production
OF the globe had less consistency, and the
body OF man, being more supple, was more
susceptible of extension. Being able 10
grow for longer time, it should, in conse.
4uence, live for longer time than now"
The German Heusler has suggested Oh
The same point that the ancients did not d.
vide time as we do. Previous to the AGE
Of Abraham, the year, among some people
Of the East, was only three months, or q
season; SO that they had a year of spring.
one OF Summer, one of Fall, and one Of
Winter. The year was extended so as to
consist OF eight months after Joseph. Vol.