Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1897 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The construction of a $600,000 cotton mill, to be erected by Boston capital, was begun at Cordova, Ala. The cruiser Brooklyn and the battleship Indiana will be sent to England to take part in the queen.’s jubilee exercises. The Portuguese gunboat has complained to the Government at Lisbon at being stopped by Greek cruisers near Salonica. Burglars blew open the safe of the postuffiee at Lewisburg, W. Ya., securing some S7OO in stamps and cash. Ex-Champion Pugilist Tom Alien was arrested for creating a disturbance in a St. Louis saloon and passed the night in a cell. A plan is on foot to colonize in Kansas all the negroe« who have been driven from their homes in the flooded districts of Missouri. A movement is on foot at Indianapolis to place limits upon the territory in that city within which the liquor traffic shall be confined. The collector at Taeoma, Wash, has been instructed to hold a gang of some 100 Chinamen, who are said to hold forged certificates. A rigid investigation will be made. As the result of the defalcation fef Cashier Cassiu of the Washington Loan and Investment Compauy of Atlanta, Git., that institution has gone under, the third of its kind in as many days. Cassin is in jail. Harry Clark, cashier of the First National Bank of Bridgeport, Ohio, hurriedly disposed of Iris property and has disappeared. His accounts with the banks are all correct. 11l health is given as the cause of his peculiar actions j