Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

O. Q. low, a Chinaman, has enlisted Im the army and will join company L, now at the Presidio. San Francisco. The funeral of Samuel M. Inglis, Illinoto state superintendent of instruction, was held at Springfield, 111., on Friday. The democrats of the Thirteenth Missour* ?ongressional district have nominated Edward Robb. He had no opposition. Democrats of the Fifteenth Missouri district) have renominated W. E. Benton to* succeed himself as representative in eon—sress. The English newspaper Messrs. Whigham and Robinson, recently' raptured on Cuban soli, after having beem landed on the coast from a yacht, haven been released from custody. Kum Shu, editor of the Chinese newspaper in San Francisco, has opened a> subscription list for the Red Cross society among his countrymen and has already Secured SIOO from the Sam Yup company. Fire at WaterloQ,.»ja., destroyed the sash-,, door and blind factory of Beck, Nautnana & Watts company, the factory andl foui®dry of the Waterloo Omnibus and Wagaisette Manufacturing company. The loss aggregated $45,000. Insurance, SIO,OCOL The directors of the Oakland (CaK)'baardl or trade have instructed Secretary SBwrp> to draft a strong set of resolutlaxis- tw b® forwarded to the California sensrtsreurging them to use every effort to sevutsr Hawaiian annexation as soon as ncHslblet Brig. Gen. Arthur McArthur, nwuently stationed at St. Paul, Minn., has-- been* ordered to proceed to San Francises and! report to Maj. Gen. Merritt, commanding: the Department of the Pacific, for asstgxament to duty with the expedition to th® Philippines. F. M. Saro was lodged in the Peoria (in.* jail In default of SI,OOO ball. He is accuse** of using the malls to defraud a Georgians named Aldo E. Reynolds, of receiving letters in an assumed name, and of corre.spending with ,a foreign government t® hinder measures of the United States. Friday being the anniversary of Jefferson Davis’ birth, the day was observed as a legal holiday in Georgia, Florida and other southern states in accordance with* a resolution adopted at the fifth annual convention of the United Confederate Veterans’ association held in Houston, several years ago.