Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

British navy is buying American coal. Strong fort wilt !*e built to protect our island of Guam. English papers are working up another FrcnchJ nv ns ion f r igh t. Lehigh Valley Railroad has abolished newsboys from trains. Battleship Alabama is fast; makes between Ki and 17 knots for B'/j hours. Jesse Feary. a legless and armless inmate of the Cincinnati workhouse, wrote n letter with ids teeth, asking for a pardon. An octopus has been added to the New York aquarium. It came from the waters around Bermuda, and meaeures 3 feet in length from tip to tip of its extended arms. In each of the past three years the corn exported from the United State* has exceeded all previous records—s74,ooo • 000 in 1808. $<18,077,000, iu 18l»0, and FK>,000,000 in WOO. A papal communication, issued at Borne,' condemns and forbids the recitation iu Catholic chnrctiew nt the Queen Dowager Margherita’s prayer In tnemurj of King IhuitbsrL