Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The Madrid cabinet has decided to arm more of the steamers of the Spanish Trans-Atlantic Company. tjt The municipality of Malaga has apologized to the American consul there for the attack by u mob on the consulate. Mexicans and Spaniards on the Texas border have been growing arrogant since talk of war with Spain started, and it is feared serious trouble will occur. The wildest scenes of approval seen in the Massachusetts Legislature in years greeted the war appropriation bill. In just twenty minutes from the time the bill was first introduced by the clerk to the final reading for engrossment. Goy. Wolcott had At his disposal $500,000. At Mississippi City, Miss., where the sheriff is also tax collector, thieves pried open the window of the sheriff’s bedroom on the night of the day he made his tax collections, and with a fishnet caught his trousers, and, pulling them to the window, rifled the pockets. The sheriff slept with a light in his room. • >