Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1898 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The General Federation of Woman’s Clubs has decided to meet in St. Louis next June. A full State ticket will be nominated by the Republicans of Kansas at Hutchinson June 8. Electricity as a substitute for hanging is being considered by the Massachusetts Legislature. It is finally settled that the battleship Kentucky will be christened with water instead of wine. Heavy consignments of Tennessee marble are being shipped to the City of Mexico from Knoxville. Nearly CO,OOO acres have been reclaimed in Ireland during the past year from bog and marsh lauds. Judge John Newton, the last treasurer of the Southern Confederacy, is critically ill at his home, near Staunton, Va. Two men with SIOO,OOO in gold dust were recently found frozen to death at Tagish, on the route from the Klondike gold fields to Skaguny. Slxteen-year-old Sadie Storer is in jail at tluntsville, Ark., together with her sweetheart and her mother, charged with the murder of her fattier, A. M. Storer, a prosperous farmer at that place. California orange growers have succeeded in developing an orange tree that will withstand a temperature of 12 degrees and yet yield a sweet and well-flavored fruit. Six thousand painters and decorators of New York will demand $4 and $3.50 per day for eight hours’ work on April 4. If their demands are not granted a strike will follow. A terrific hail storm occurred near Pocatello, Idaho, doing immense damage to stock. The storm wns accompanied by thunder and lightning'and the hail stones were as large as hen’s eggs. The army recruiting officer at Chicago received an order from the War Department at Washington to “enlist all desirable applicants fitted for artillery, and send them to Fort Sheridan.” Within five hours after the order had been posted on the bulletin board over 500 men had applied for enlistment. A question arose in the English House of Commons as to the expediency of tendering the United States the use of the British fleet in the event of war, the interests of the nations being so closely allied. It was not up for consideration by the House officially, but many members expressed themselves as favorable to the project.