Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

California's petroleum trade is booming. Thirty-two new wells have been sunk since March 1. Reports from various points in Now England show that the cotton mill strike will soon end. The convention of cnttle misers nt Fort Worth, Tex., raised n subscription for n monument to the dead of the battleship Maine. At Holly Springs, Miss.,- little May Briggs, the 4-yenr-old daughter of James Briggs, swallowed a button and choked to death in a few minutes. Rnin has fallen nJuindantly all over Kansas, ami stock water, which was scarce, is now plentiful, and pastures and wheat nre much benefited. A contract was let by the Board of Public Affairs for lighting the city of Fort Smith, Ark., with electricity. The contract carries With It on clec'tric street car franchise, to be put in operation in twelve months.