Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

The Lloyd-Booth company is making a pair of shears to weigh 175 tons. The Western College Baseball schedule has been satisfactorily arranged. Nicola Tesla claims to have discovered a plan to use energy generated in the sun. There is talk of extending the scope of the new steel wire trust so as to include the steel billet mills of the country. The United States is reported to be negotiating for a narrow strip of land in northwestern (Greenland for a naval and coaling station. Captain William C. Oldretve has planned to walk across the Atlantic ocean with his seagoing shoes, starting from Boston July 4. Captain William A. Andrews will accompany him in n new fourteenfoot sailboat. The case against the directors of the defunct Union Bank of Newfoundland, charged with conspiracy to defraud, was dismissed because the jury had already acquitted the directors of the Commercial Bank, who Were arraigned on the same charge.