Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Norwegian fruit steamer Belvernon arrived in New York from Port Morant, Jamaica, after a tempestuous voyage lasting six and a half days. A man suspected of being one of the Moorhead train robbers was arrested at Winnipeg Junction and taken to Fergus Falls, Minn., by a Pinkerton man and a constable. A company has been formed in St. Pau) to dig for gold in the bottoms of Alaskan rivers and creeks. The plan is to mine o» the Yukon and its tributaries by hydrau lie power. Gen. John Wettshorn, prominent h Grand Army and political circles, died at Baltimore. He was one of the first met in Maryland to take an active interest ia the Union cause. Mary Ortez, an Indian woman, died San Diego, Cal., from her extreme age, ■which is variously estimated at from 102 to 146, her daughter believing her to have been at least 130 years old. Two Chinamen who have been mining in the Casaiai district, B. C., have arrived an Victoria.' They took out $40,000 and hive drafts on the Hudson Bay Company to show for it