Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1898 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The General Federation of Woman’s Clubs has decided to meet in St. Louis next June. Heavy consignments of Tennessee marble are being shipped to the City of Mexico from Knoxville. Nearly 60,000 acres have been reclaimed in Ireland during the past year from bog and marsh lands. Judge John Newton, the last treasurer of the Southern Confederacy, is critically ill at bis home, near Staunton, Ya. Two men with SIOO,OOO in gold dust were recently found frozen to death at Tagisb. on the route from the Klondike gold fields to Skaguny. Sixteen-year-old Sadie Storer is in jail at Huntsville, Ark., together with her sweetheart and her mother, charged with the murder of.her father, A. M. Storer, a prosperous farmer at that place. California orange growers have succeeded in developing an orange tree that will withstand a temperature of 12 degrees and yet yield a sweet and well-flavored fruit. Six thousand painters and decorators of New York will demand $4 and $3.50 per day for eight hours' work on April 4. If their demands are not granted a strike will follow. A terrific hail storm occurred near Pocatello, Idaho, doing immense damage to stock. The storm was accompanied by thunder and lightning nnd the hail stones were as large aS lien's eggs.