Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Czar and Czarina have returned to St. Petersburg. Mrs. John IV. Mackey has been summoned from London to Rome on account of the critical illness of her father. Li Hung Chang, special envoy of the Emperor of China, arrived in Paris and was welcomed with military honors. It is rumored on the Paris bourse thnt the Rothschilds will issue in Paris a Russian loan for 1,000,000,000 francs (S2OO - 000,000). Harry Askin, a manager of theatrical enterprises of wide reputation, has filed a petition in insolvency. No schedules are given. Jones & Laughlin signed a special steel scale with the Amalgamated Association at Pittsburg and will continue in operation. They employ 4,500 men. There arrived in New Orleans thirty Chinese boys in charge of Rev. Hide Kin, a Presbyterian minister, who has charge of a mission in New York, where they go to be placed in school, and after receiving a preliminary education will enter college. They are sons of prominent and wealthy Chinamen. Milton L. Ely, said to be one of the most noted bandits of the West, has been captured at Moberly, Mo., by William Pinkerton s detectives. Ely is wanted especially because of his connection with the express car robbery at Ottumwa. In., Jan. 12, 1895. on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, There is danger of a water’famine in Boston and considerable alarm is felt by Water Commissioner Murphy ami (Sty Engineer -Jackson because of t ie large and unaccountable increase in ttie use of water during the last three youths. . The rainfall iji the last "six very small, and the water commission has issued orders to the people of the-city to cut down their consumption. According to what is considered reliable authority, a controlling interest in the Detroit Railway, a system opepited under the 3-ceiit-fare ordinances, has been sold by Henry A. Everett, proprietor of the system, to R. T. Wilson, of New York. Mr. Wilson now owns' most of the stock of the Citizens’■ Railway Comp tnv, a.id a consolidation of the ro‘tds 'under are management is now anticipated.