Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1897 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Theosophical Society of America held its third annual convention in New York. The application at the White House for the various consulships is beyond all precedent. Ora Melton, the Competitor prisoner, who has been held in Cabanas, Cuba, for over a year, is to be released at once. ’* The Southern Pacific is making arrangements for building a $5,000,000 bridge across the Mississippi river at New Orleans. James E. Pierce, a patrolman on the national capital force, has been arrested on the charge of robbing two houses on his beat. About $1,500 worth of plunder was discovered in his house. The proceedings instituted at Milwaukee by Rev. Hellstern against Archbishop Kaizer and others on the ground of conspiracy to have him deposed from his pastorate, have been dismissed on the ground of improper service. The students and faculty of the University of Notre Dame, Ind., were rudely startled when Major Brownson lectured, attacking the democratic fdrm of government and violently assailing the public character of Abraham Lincoln