Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The first payment on the part of the London and South African syndicate, which has purchased the entire street railroad system of the City of Mexico and suburbs, has been made, the amount being $825,000. Sir Charles Tupper, premier of Canada, has made an appeal to the electors of the Dominion over his own signature. He calls upon the electors to exercise their calm judgment and decide between the Conservatives and the Reformers. Dr. William J. Scott, for years the leading member of the profession in Cleveland, is dead, aged 74 years, after a brief illness. He had held professorships in various medical colleges, and had been president of the State Medical Association. While delirious from long sickness, Ralph Wiley, aged 16, living with relatives at Pendleton, Ind., arose from his ■bed and ran -from the hnttsfts-bareheaded and'barefooted, to the railroad track, and there was run over by a freight engine and killed. When Paderewski was a struggling music teacher and got his first engagement to play in a fashionable salon for a fee of twenty dollars, the hostess, who was delighted at his playing, said to him as he was about to leave. “You must allow me to send you home in my carriage.’ But Paderewski would stand no patronizing. “Madame,” he replied, “my carriage Is at the door.” All men, If they work not as In a great taskmasters eye, will work wrong, work unhappily for themselves and you.—Carlyla.