Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Long will recommend to Congress in a few days that a modern cruiser be built to take the place on the lakes of the antiquated Michigan. 1 Rev. W. W. Browne, president of the Grand Fountain of True Reformers, the most powerful organization among the colored people of the South, died in Washington. ■ ■ vji;..' The Comptroller of the Currency has declared dividends of 15 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Union National Bank of Denver, Colo., and 37% per cent in favor of the creditors of the First National Bank of Fort Payne, Ala. The United States Supreme Court, in an opinion handed down by Justice Brewer, affirmed the opinion of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the controversy between the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and the Musser-Soun-try Land, Logging and Manufacturing Company, involving the title to lands in Wisconsin. The lands affected are those within the limits of the grant to the Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company in 1856 and the grants to the Northern Pacific in 1864. The land was withdrawn from sale by the land office under the first grant, and the court held that inasmuch as the Northern Pacific grant ceded only land to which the United States had perfected title the land was not included in the Northern Pacific grant.