Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Judge Josinh W. Wright dropped dead at Princeton, N. J., while on his way to Trenton. He was (18 years of age. W. C. Bailey, of Minneapolis, has been elected president of the Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe must be mistaken when she says “there was up original Uncle Tom.” Several of him have been buried every year as far baok as we can remember. » Owing to a two years’ drouth on the Pacific side of Nicaragua the coffee crop has been much reduced, and instead of the 200*000 quintals expected; it is not now believed that the crop will exceed 100,000. Col. David S. Turner, aged 92 yeurs, veteran during the late war, and grandfather of Prof. N. L. Britton, of. Columbia College, New Yofk, died at New Dorp, Staten Island. Harry Hayward’s promised messages after death have not been received, and a Minnesota paper surmises that his wiro has been grounded somewhere. We would rather bet that it is burned ont.. The Italian warship Christopher Colombo, having on board the Duke of Arbnzzi, nephew of the King of Italy, arrived at San Francisco from the North. The war* ship will remain there several week*