Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1898 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Col. Thomas E. Moore of Kentucky has challenged Desha Breckinridge to fight a duel. Hie United States torpedo boat Cushing has been sent to Havana, with stores for the battleship Maine. Boston electricians at a banquet Tuesday night listened by telephone to speeches made in New York. The New York Board of Health’s estimate of the population of the consolidated city gives a total of 3,438,809. Secretary of War Alger attended the regular cabinet meeting Thursday for the first time in eight weeks. He lias been very ill.