Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS NUGGETS.

The steamer Monarch, owned by Brydges & Durham, which left Rat Portage, Ont., for Fort Francis, loaded with passengers and freight, was wrecked and sunk at Satiit Rapids in the Rainy river. The passengers and crew were saved. At St. Jshn's, N. F., the whaleboat Kite has been chartered to carry an expedition of ten persons to Greenland to rescue Lieut. Peary, the Arctic explorer. Emile Diebitsch, Peary’s brother-in-law, will have charge of the party, which is to start about the middle of next month. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen’s Association to be held at LaCrosse, Wis., and the Wisconsin Valley Lumbermen’s Association has been called to meet at the same time aad place. This means a joint meeting will be held and the price of white pine lumber will go up. The swearing In of the new Secretary of State by Ghief Justice Fuller Monday was a simple ceremony. During the day the chiefs of bureaus and divisions identified with the department paid their reaped* to the new Secretary.