Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1893 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

1 Insurance companies lose $400,000 by, a fire in Santiago, Chili. The business portion of Newton, Miss., burned. The loss is $50,000. ' Several incendiary fires, causing small losses, occurred in Cleveland. ! Ex-Gov. Forakeb, of Ohio, delivered the Memorial Day address at New York. Four cases of small-pox were discovered in a Bohemian boardinghouse in New York. David Starr Jordan has resigned the presidency of Leland Stanford, Jr., University. i , ; jx ~ Children decorated the graves of the soldier dead at Gettysburg on Decoration Day. The dam of the great reservoir at Austin, Tex., was swept away, causing a loss of $50,00:). E. Nelson Blake, of Massachusetts, was elected President of the Baptist Home Missionary Society. The authorities of New Orleans were scored by the grand jury for non-en-forcement of the gambling laws. Miss Laura Weaver, daughter of Gen. J. B. Weaver, was married at Des Moines, lowa, to A. R. Ketchum* son of Mrs. Harriet Ketchum, the lowa sculptor. The Brazilian Congress has refused to appint an intervenor to settle the troubles in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. This refusal is based on the ground that the national army should be used to suppress the rebellion,