Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

The Whitwick colliery, in Leicestershire, England, is on fire. It is bellevfed that 41 lives have been lost. Prof. Jules Marcou, famous throughout the world as a geologist, is d<»ad at his home in Cambridge, Mass. The concentrator of the Morning mine at Wallace, Idaho, was destroyed by fire. Tlje loss Is 1100,000; insurance, SSO,OCO. Mrs. Mary Louise Potter, widow of Howard Potter, the banker, and mother of James Brown Petter, is (lead at her home tn New York city, aged 69 years. The United States'cruiser Topeka, formerly the Dlcgencs, has received urgent orders to sail immediately from Portsmouth, England, for the United Stat* s. The navy department Tuesday authorized the purchase of seven yachts U. r the auxiliary navy. Most of them are from persons living around New York and Boston. A special to the Milwaukee Journal from Ironwood, Mich., says four inches of snow fell there Monday night. Manitowoc, Depere and Plainfield also report a heavy fall of snow. The United States military attache as Vienna, Lieut. J L. Chamberlain, and the United Suites military attache at St. Petersburg, Lieut. George L. Anderson, have been called ii<jme. - - The state department receix 1 i f- rmatlon Tuesday afternoon from .’ i.ister Loomis at Caracas, Venezuela, st. ' v that ex-President Crespo was killed v.. . battling with insurgents. According to the stateinent of U. Hall, of Spokane, Wash., a Ki. . ..ik<r, who arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the steamer' Utopia from Skaguay, aril Ils forty of four men brought out gold dust and drafts amounting to JBoo.tniO; Accord!, s to statements made by Spaniards In Havana the Insurgents recently captured in this province, a sergeant of volunteer’. whom they killed at d most terrfbiy mutilated, cutting out his tongue, eyes and. other parts of his body. Pledgees enough been ilrr-ady secured to make it certain that there- wHI be no difficulty in obtaining, in case j! an outbreak of hostilities witli Spain, the required sum of SIUO,(M) for the equipment of a Wall street regiment of 1,; 1 mi ... ■■•Tfre police' e i S ir, Francisc.o iiave adopted a resoluti n declining that in case of viar police off’; < ; - vv ho en>list will not lose their places, which will be tilled during their absence by men whose appointment, shall be merely temporary. J. R. McKnight, who has been on trial in the United States couit on the charge of having wrecked the German optional hank, of Louisville, Ky., of which he v, .s president until it was closed by the examiner in January of last year, has been found guilty.