Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

There has been a sharp advance in the wholesale price of elwap teas, on account of the w’ar tax. Mrs. Gladstone does not realize her husband’s death, and continually speaks -of him as being in the next. room. Lord Wolseley, commamler-in>cbicf of the British army, has been offered the governor generalship of C'anada. An English traveler reports 1,000.001 acres of marvelously rich unimproved farm land in the Philippiuc Islands. A national organization is being formed in China to , preserve the empire aud to protect it from European aggression. Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, received in a single day 500 letters from persons who wanted to be generals, captains or lieutenants in the regiments now being formed. A collision between vessels in Boston harbor came near blockading the only channel open to navigation, all others being closed by submarine mines of the government. At Pattonville, Texas, R. L. Gilliam was fatally shot by William Covington, ( husband of Gilliam’s niece, during a qaar-* rel over Coviugton’s alleged mistreatment of his wife. Searchlights are such good targets tor an enemy’s guns that the Qermana ai« arranging to throw the light first en a mirror and thence on the enemy, thereby concealing its real source. *