Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1898 — Told in a Few Lines. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Lines.

There is a possibility that both branches of Congress will adjourn about May 1. Rich gold quartz has been discovered in the Pembina Mountains, in southern Manitoba. Last year the exports of the ‘United States were 50 per cent larger than the exports of France. There have been four mysterious .assassinations in Houston, Tex., during : Rie past two weeks. A French aeronaut is planning to go hunting for Andree with a team of balloons joined together. A tribe of Indians with yellow hair and blue eyes has been discovered in the mountains of Sonora, Mexico. The lemon industry on the Pacific coast is growing very rapidly. Two thousand car loads will be shipped East during the present season. The British fishing schooner Spinaway, heavily coated with ice, was blown from the const of Newfoundland across the Atlantic to the Azores. Mrs. Mary Maschin, a New York boarding house keeper, has been sent to the work house for begging food on which to feed the boarders. A Prescott (Ariz.) dispatch says that reports from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado state that iee formed in the river during the recent cold spell at a depth of from 4,000 to 5.000 feet below the mesa.