Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

* Charles Jackson, of Kickmond, Ind., is a prisoner in Morro Castle, Havana! * There are three British warships, one, German and one French, at the Philippine Islands. The London Daily N[ews has a dispatch from Berlin with reference to rumors of reprisals against America!? petroleum. * .An accident" by which six men are believed to have lost their lives occurred in the tunnel of the Holy Cross mine near Red Cliff, Col. 4Tbe commission to decide * whether Santa Monica or Baa Pedro shall receive the appropriation for a harbor will meet In Las Angeles, Cal. »