Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Artificially spotted tobacco raised in Connecticut is said to be on the market. A hill lias been introduced in the Kentucky Legislature which fixes daily rates in first-class hotels in the State at $1.50; boarding houses, 50c, and restaurant meals, 25c. The handsome farm house of Alvin Fengnus, nenr Knobnoster, Mo.-, was destroyed by tire, and an infant child was rescued from the burning building after its clothing had caught fire. Hearing the cries of an angry mob outside the jail iu which he was confined at Richmond. Ark., Alexander Johnson, a negro boy, charged with grand larceny) drew a razor and cut bis throat.