Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — Told in a Few Linea. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Linea.

Pearl Eytinge, the actress, is in a New York hospital, insane from the morphine habit. Over 700 deaths occurred from the black plague iu Bombay, India, during February. During the cattlemen’s convention at Fort Worth. Tex., stock to the value of $2,000,000 changed hands. A committee of the Norwegian parliament has recommended universal suffrage to all men above 25 years of age. Negotiations by the Government for the purchase of the two Japanese cruisers now beiug built in the United States are off. The British Admiralty has ordered that all British warships be painted black or white, abandoning the uniform gray eolor now in vogue. France has given China eight days in which to reply to her demands for concessions in the hitter’s territory equal to those granted to Germany. The Norwegian steamer Norkyn has arrived at New York from Hamburg with a cargo of smokeless gunpowder for the United States Government. A 7-inch vein of nimost pure sulphide of silver was struck seven miles west of Ahuuiada, iu the State of Chihuahua, Mex. The ore assays 22,090 ounces per ton. Advices from Madrid describe the Spanish people us in a very nervous condition. The slightest hint of good will from a foreign paper is looked upon.ns an evidence of impending alliance. A clergyman, while opening the New Jersey Senate with prayer, asked that the Emperor of Germany might be forgiven If his failure “to size this country up propiriy was due to insanity.” Two negroes are to be sold into bondage at Glasgow, K.v. They have repeatedly been convicted of vagrancy, and the county has advertised their services for sale for the time of their imprisonment.