Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Cunarder Catalonia rescued in midi ocean the •ei'ew of the French schooner Vague—twenty-one men and. boys. A. S. Franklin, who was interpreter with the Willman expedition of 1894, declares that Lieut. Peary’s find is not a meteorite, but a mass of telluride iron. Tacoma citizens protest against the proposal to establish a military- reservation at St. Michael’s, Alaska, which, they say, would bar out citizens of Washington from engaging in business there. Leading bicycle manufacturers of tho United 4S.ta.tes have banded together to make chainless wheels on the same lines as the new Columbia and will unitedly fight Col. Pope should he sue for infringement. Their attorney declares that Pope’s patents are invalid. The World's W. C. T. U. has elected these officers: Honorary president, Mrs. M. C. Leavitt, Boston; president. Miss Frances E, Willard, Evanston, Ill.; vice-president-at-large, Lady Henry Somerset, England; secretary, AMss Agnes E. Slack, England; assistant secretary. Miss Anna Gordon, Evanston, Ill.; treasurer, Miss Mary Sanderson, Danville, Quebec.