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

CURRENT EVENTS.

“Bobby” Matthews, a veteran ball pitcher, 1* dead. Cheyenne Indiana in Oklahoma are engaged in a ghost dance. Charles Hackett, ohalrman of the New York republican state central committee, is dead at Utica. He was 46 years old. Under Instructions from Mlnieter Pole Spanish consuls are arranging for the departure of Spaniards In their localities, A dispatch from Lima announces that the first thousand Peruvian sovereigns hav* been coined by the mint and are now In circulation. At San Francisco Walter D. Mansfield has broken the world’s record for both outdoor and indoor fly-c&sting. He extended hl* line a distance of 120 feet 6 Inches. BlshOp Potter presented a set of resolution* against war at th* meeting of th* New York Central labor union, but they were defeated by a vote of nearly two to one. Gen. Lew Wallace has formally withdrawn from the race for United States senator fbr Indiana, and announces that he will enter th* army and fight for Cuban Independence. Negotiations to consolidate the Goodrich, of Akron, Goodyear, of Connecticut and Butler, of New Jersey, the three leading hard rubber companies of the ooun-. try, have been closed. . David Annett, an old resident of Joliet, 111., threw himself under a north-bound. Chicago & Alton passenger train at six a’clock Sunday night, being cut to piece*. No cause for the act can be assigned. According to a special dispatch from Madrid Senor Moret, secretary' of the colonies, has approved a contract to lay a cable between Cadiz and Havana, by way of Tenerlffe and Vieque (Crab island), nine miles east of Puerto Rico. It was stated at the navy department Monday afternoon that the efforts to secure the Chilian battleship O’Hlgglne have been practically abandoned and that then* is no longer any prospect that the United States desires or will be able to secure any more warships either belonging to foreign nations or being built In foreign shipyard*.