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

CURRENT EVENTS.

The convention of Illinois prohibitionist® at Peoria closed Thursday with a Willard memorial meeting. .A of Dwl « ht . Hl., is among the list of the victims of the foundered schooner Jane Gray. * The Prospect house at Nyack N Y burned to the ground Thursday; loss oil building, $60,000, and on contents about $lO,Thirty thousand Modern Woodmen from northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin took possession of Rockford, 111., Thursday it being the annual picnic of the order. ’ Information from Madrid is to the effect that Castillo, the Spanish ambassador to France, has been instructed to use all efforts to bring about intervention by th® powers. The reciprocity proclamation of the president which admits French brandies and spirits at $1.29 a gallon, has greatly excited California dealers, who say their industry will be ruined. A conflagration at Peshawir, India, which was not mastered for 24 hours, ha® destroyed 4,000 houses, doing damage to

ine amount ot aoout rour crores or rupees (about 320,000,000). Permission has been granted the Spanish torpedo boat Temerarlo, which 14 disabled at Asuncion, Paraguay, to remain in that port until the close Of war between the United States and Spain. John F. Pankhurst, vice president and general manager of the Globe Iron company, died in Cleveland, 0., suddenly of heart disease. Mr. Pankhurst was widely known on the great lakes. He was 63 years old. The United States marshal at Key West has sold the prize steamer Pedro to tha United States government for 8200,060. Thia amount is to be deposited by the secretary of the treasury to the credit of the secretary of the navy. The only semblance of a contest in the Pennsylvania republican state convention was over the head of the ticket. Col. William A. Stone, member of congress from Allegheny, the favorite from the start, won on the first ballot. The Lake Bennett route to the Klondike is now free from floe ice, and boats are passing easily from the portage at the foot of Lindeman through Cariboo Crossing. Beyond Cariboo Crossing there is practically open water to the center of the gold country. In the United States district court at Key V\ est Jvdge Locke rendered a decision condemning the cargo of coal of the British steamer Restormel, seized on Monday as she was trying to run the blockade. Judge Locke'* decision releases the Restormel. A mob of Spaniards, according to patch from Gibraltar to London, assaulted and stoned Maj. Gen. J. B. RlchaPfison, commander of the royal artillery at Gibraltar. and another Englishman, while they were walking at San Roque, seven miles northwest of Gibraltar.