Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Lombard University has abandoned the system of self-rule by students. Window glass manufacturers are forming a trust with $20,000,000 capital. Christopher Merts, of Elwood. Ind., has returned from a two years’ stay in Alaska x with $230,000. Miss Constance Ingalls, daughter of the ex-Senator, is to become a deaconess in the Episcopal Church. Two statues and other valuable relics have been received by the University of Chicago from Deshasha, Egypt. President Johnson of the Western League believes it cheapens base-ball to get an outside attraction like an ex-pugil-ist as one of the main features of the day. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Curtis and six other members of the Sam’l of Posen Company have organized a joint stock concern and will start for the Klondike gold fields in the spring, y.-. The City of Panama has contracted for a modern system of water works, having up to this time relied upon rain water cisterns and bad wells. A Belgian firm has the contract. Lieutenant Peary and his party of arctic explorers have reached Sydney, B. C., on the bark Hope. All are well and satisfied with their summer work. They bring back the huge Cape York meteorite, the largest in the world. Arthur Jordan, a Scotch explorer, who claims to be familiar with the country between Spokane and Klondike, will soon leave Spokane, Wash., with six men for the Yukon country. He says that a man can get through with considerably less than s3oo> especially if there is a party of six going, in which case certain supplies can be purchased and used in common.