Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Another uprising is threatened in Guatemala. President Barrios’ political enemies are the instigators. If Mrs. Nack looks like her newspaper portraits it is hard to understand why she is protesting against death. The Alleghany Connecting Bailway Company has been chartered in Pennsylvania to build a line from Plum to Harrison townships, Alleghany County. The health and police committee of the Board of Supervisors at San Francisco has put a quietus upon the prize fighting industry in that city for some time to come by refusing any more permits for pugilistic or physical culture exhibitions to a big club. Mrs. Matilda Delilah Shields, a granddaughter of Richard Henry Potomax, an Indian chief, died at Washington, D. 0., aged 113 years. She leaves one son and two daughters, thirty grand-children and thirty-five great-grandchildren. Mrs. Shields had lived in that locality nearly al] her life.