Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

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 Claremore, I. T., shot and killed United States Marshal Arnold and was himself killed by Deputy Busey, while resisting arrest. 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., bis 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 ty. C. Stone of ltoxbury, Mass., has made up her mind to possess someKlondike gold. She has arranged to go with a party of twenty-four men, and they expegt to start about the middle of April 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 an outlet 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 Islands. Trains were imbedded in heavy snow drifts, telegraph wires were down, people were frozen to 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 she lowey and iouthwestern 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 to these voracious wild beasts. The troops at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, are to join the troops at the New York harbor defenses. ’ The work of deepening and widening the channel on the bar at Pensacola, Fla is being pushed with the utmost speed, and the largest merchant steamships now’pass without difficulty. It is expected that 28 feet of water will soon be obtained. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has vetoet the fellow servants bill, which was con sidered one of the most important meas ures passed by the recbnt Legislature upon the ground that it wouM^ ake tb , corporations responsible for «„ Juries for which they ure not Msuonalhl wpr tb? wwitjtutiou of the