Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The authorities of Burlington. Vt„ are looking for Earl Sheldon. 8 years old, who, it is feared, was kidnaped Feb. 18. Judge Campbell of San Francisco has decided that a cat is not a domestic animal and cannot, therefore, be claimed as the property of any one. William Johnson of Ciaremore. I. T., shot and killed United States Marshal Arnold and was himself killed by Deputy Busey, while resisting arrest. State Labor Commissioner Johnson of Kansas has compiled a report on the subject of inequalities of taxation. He says small owner pays the taxes. English newspapers hint that the French navy mobilization may be in connection with the impending rupture between the United States and Spain. Capt. Sobral, Spain’s late naval attache at Washington, who has plans of the United States coast defenses, has been appointed on the staff of the admiralty. In accordance with the wishes of Farmer Appleby of Hempstead, N. Y., his widow caused his remains to be cremated and scattered the ashes over the fields. The winter’s gold output of the Klondike is estimated at .$9,000,000, which will be sent down the Yukon by the first steamer after the opening of navigation. Miss M. C. Stone of Roxbury. Mass., has made up her mind to possess some Klondike gold. She has arranged to go with a party of twenty-four men. and they expect to start about the middle of Apr’l in a schooner around the horn. Provisions for two years will be taken. There is a movement on foot to organize a stock company in Houston. Texas, for the purpose of making that place a tobacco market, to serve as ah cutlet for the heavy crops of that State. Three thousand acres will be planted in Harris and the counties immediately surrounding Houston. There have been terrific storms throughout the British‘lslands. Trains'were imbedded in heavy snow drifts, telegraph wires were down, people were frozen t<J death while traversing the moors, a hurricane swept all the coasts, producing tremendous seas, and great loss of shipping and' human life. The cattlemen of the lower and •southwestern districts of Texas are experiencing much trouble and loss of stock by depredations of mountain lions, wolves and coyotes. The loss in the mountain districts bordering on the Rio.Grande river will reach an average of 25 per cent. Lambs, calves and colts fall a prey ,tc these Voracious wild beasts