Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

Allen D. Chandler has been nominated for governor by the Georgia democrats. It is reported from Madrid that Hobson's exchange is prevented by the hostility of the Spanish press. It is stated that banks at West Indian points have refused to honor drafts of United States consuls. Gen. Pelloux Is made premier in the new Italian cabinet formed to succeed the ministry of Marquis de Rudlni. The honorary degree of docto|r of laws was conferred by Yale university upon William McKinley, president of the United States. Sig. Bonin, Italian minister of marine, said the powers could not Interfere to prevent the attack of Spanish seaports by an American deet. Although boxes are thoroughly enjoyed by the soldiers who receive them, the officials o.f the war department discourage the sending of delicacies to the soldiers. The premier of Newfoundland, Sir James Winter, says in an interview that Newfoundland should participate in any agreement arrived at between the United States and Canada. The deal for the purchase of the Lerol gold mine by the Britlsh-American corporation for *3,000,000 has been declared off, and the *600,000 check as a first payment was withdrawn. All the coal miners working at Jackson Center, Stoneboro and Sandy Lake, have been induced by the strikers to quit work and Join their ranks. About 400 men came out Tuesday. Harold Leach, a well-known Journalist, committed suicide at San Francisco by taking fusel oil on Monday night His body was found in his room on Mission street Tuesday. His parents reside at Scranton, Pa. The pope is said to be greatly affected by the course of the Spanish-American war, and, in view of his age and nervous prostration, and for some time past hi- entourage is anxious, although his physicians declare there is no cause for alarm. Oscar Hammerstein’s Olympia theater, in New York, was sold under the hammer. The price paid was *960,000. The purchaser was a representative of the New York Life Insurance company, which holds the mortgages now standing on the property. Secretary of the Interior Bliss Wednesday approved a recommendation of the commissioner of education that each state and territory be given *14,000 for the support of agricultural and mechanical colleges during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1809. According to an gpnoqacement printed Wednesday morning the queen regent intends to immediately sign a decree providing for the formation at Cadis of an auxiliary cruiser division, consisting of the Alfonso XIII., Joaquim del Pelago, Ciudad de Cadis and Meteoro.