Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The Farmers’ National Congress will meet at Colorado Springs, Colo., on Aug. 21. The San Francisco Board of Health has decided that the Chinese who died receatly under suspicious circumstances had genuine bubonic plague. Living animals have been newly discovered at a depth in the ocean of two miles greater than any hitherto reached. Gretna Mennonites, strong Boer sympathizers, attempted to burn Hie Queen’s effigy in Winnipeg, but were prevented by the threats of Englishmen. An order waa received by » Cincinnati concern by cable from an English firm sos nearly (>00,600 British «ag» to b< shipped as soon as they can be made. The Philippine naval station has steadily grown, until there are now forty-eight vessel* on! the stattaa, and ls £h&e Arit* twenty-eight are of considerable size.