Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Col. Breckinridge remarks that “it is hard to keep a good man down,” That’s all right; it isn't so hard to keep a bad man down. A concession from the Chinese Government to build a line of railroad from tidewater to Pekin has been obtained by .a syndicate of American capitalists. The road will be about 200 miles long and will tap a valuable coal mining district.