Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

Joseph F. Johnston has been nominated for governor by the democrats of Alabama. J. & W. Seligman & Co. have engaged 1750,000 and Lazard Freres $175,000 gold for import. The general assembly of Rhode Island adopted a resolution appropriating $150,000 for military equipment. Representative Knowles (S. D.) has introduced a bill for the issue of $150,000,000 In legal tender for war purposes. The navy has purchased Pierpont Morgan’s yacht Corsair, and also the yacht Penelope, of Boston, and tug Phlhladelphla. Troy (N. Y.) conference of the Methodist church adopted resolutions approving congress' “declaration of Cuban independence." There is no truth in the reports that Cunard line steamers Umbria and Etruria have been sold. There have been no negotlans on the subject. There was a slight fall in prices on th® Spanish bourse in Madrid as a result of ths, severance of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United States, but there was no panic. A freight wreck on the New York Central at Fairport, N. Y., Thursday resulted in the death of three men, one being dangerously Injured, and over SIO,OOO worth of property was destroyed. Representative Hull, chairman of the military affairs committee, has Introduced a bill to increase the efficiency of th® United States army in time of war by organizing field telegraph corps. A jury in the circuit court of Montgomery county at Hillsboro, Hl., awarded Miss Clara B. Hamilton a verdict for $5,000 damages in her suit against Harry Heston Thacker for breach of promise of marriage. Both parties are school teachers. - It la stated that orders have been prepared and will be issued at once calling on the Pennsylvania national guard to mobilise at Mount Gretna, Pa., near Lebanon. It Is stated further that the 9,000 members ol the guard will be under canvas by Saturday night. Latest developments show the shortage of City Treasurer Widber, of San Francisco, to be $116,000, instead of $160,000, as first reported. Widber, who admits the shortage, claims he took the money to Invest in mines, his Investments coming out badly. Rumors of an Indian uprising near Fort Sill, by Geronimo and his Apache band, caused the return of one troop of cavalry, which had reached Rush Springs on its way to New Orleans. It is said the Indians have fallen out among themselves also and trouble is feared.