Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

Tne government of China has decided to do away with the restriction! of the use of steam in the navigation of Internal rivers and lakes. Bristow Graham (colored) was hanged In the coiinty jail at Savannah, Ga. He killed Ben Wilson, another colored man, on December 19, 1896. Gen. William P. Hardin, one of the leaders of the confederate army and superintendent of the confederate home in Austin, Tex., died of Bright's disease, in his eightysecond year. Thomas H. Burnham, aged 89, died at Glens Fails, N. Y. He was for many years one of the heaviest grain dealers at Cleveland, 0., where he accumulated a for- , tune. Reports from Rip Janeiro say the government of Brazils has refused to sell the cruiser Floriano de Odoro <to the .United States, giving as a reason that it will be a long time before she is finished. Ci H. Raymond was hanged at Folsom, Cai., at ten o’clock Friday morning for the murder of Fred Andrews at Baden, San Mateo county, November 17 last. He died bravely. The execution was without Incident. —rAt the headquarters of the Central Cuban relief committee in New York it was said Friday that Miss Clara Barton was expected to leave Cuba with her nine assistants In company with Consul-General Lee to-day. The Spanish legation at Washington authorizes the statement that no dispatch of any kind has been received as to the sailing of the Spanish fleet from Cadiz. Secretary Long also says he has received no advices as to this fleet. Rev. Dr. S. C. Swallow, of Harrisburg, I Thursday night accepted the independent ; nomination for governor of Peansylvania upon the platform “Thou ShaltlNot Steal,” i tendered to him at Harrisburg on Marbh i 30 by a delegation of citizens of Philadeli phia.