Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Five men met death from “black damp” In the Jermyn No. 1 mine, near Rendham, Pa. Great alarm is felt at Havana over Minister Woodford’s notes to Spain, and the Spaniards there are very indignant. A telegram was received at Omaha from Master in Chancery Cornish, fixing Nov. 1 ns the date for the sale of the Union Pacific. The bronze monument that is to be erected in’Portsmouth Square to the memory of Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, has been successfully cost in San Francisco. The statue will represent a Spanish galleon under full sail. The Dawes and Creek commissioners have i concluded a treaty whereby the Creek Indians agree to allotment and a change in the form of their government. Town sites are to be laid off where towns now exist and residents can secure title to their town property by the payment of 50 per cent of an assessed valuation of their lots, exclusive of improvement.