Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Czar and Czarina have returned to St. Petersburg, Mrs. John IV. Mackey has been summoned from Londou to Rome on account of the critical illness of her father. Li Hung Chang, special envoy of the Emperor of China,, arrived in Paris and was welcomed with military honors. It is runiored on the Paris bourse that the Rothschilds will issue in Paris a Russian loan for 1,000,000,900 francs (?200,000,000). Harry Askin, a manager of theatrical enterprises of wide reputation, has filed a petitiou in insolvency. No schedules are given. Jones & Laughlin signed a special steel scale with the Amalgamated Association at Pittsburg and will continue in operation. They employ 4,500 men. There arrived in New Orleans thirty Chinese boys in charge of Rev. Huie Kin, a Presbyterian minister, who has charge of a mission in New York, where they go to be placed in school, and after receiving a preliminary education will enter college. They are sons of prominent and wealthy Chinamen. Milton L. Ely, said to tie one of the most noted bandits of the West, has lieen captured at Moberljr, Mo., by William Pinkerton's detectives. Ely is wanted especially because of his connection with the express ear rolibery nt Ottumwa, In., Jan. 12, 1895. on the Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy Railroad. There is danger of a wafer famine In Boston and considerable alarm is felt by, Water Commissioner Murphy an<i City Engineer Jackson because of t w large and .unaccountable increase in tne use of water during the last three months. The rainfall i.n the last six wccKg h-m been very small,,and tbe water commission has issued orders to the people of the city to cut down their consumption. According to what is considered reliable authority, u controlling intefesf In the Detroit Railway, a sysiem undir the R'-ednt-fttW > '‘dMW«ricWi l , has W'Wi'sold by Henty A. 'Kvf’HftK' proprietor of the system, to R. T. Wilson, of New York. Mr.’ Wilson now owns jurist of the stock of the Citizens’ Railway Comp.iuy, a.ul a consolidation of the roads armler .ird management is now anticipated.