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

CURRENT EVENTS.

Tne nouse committee on military affairs reported a bill Increasing the field rations of the soldiers in active service. rne republicans or Maine renominated Gov. Llewellyn PoWers by a unanimous vote at the state convention held In Augusta. At Key West, Fla., a number of the war prize vessels, together with their cargoes, were sold at auction, the proceeds amounting to about $70,000. It is rumored in New York that a “popular song" trust has been organized l,y the leading publishers of this class of mui.io throughout the country. The chamber of commerce of Barcelona has notified the government that at a general meeting its members were in favor of peace and the termination of a state of war. A delegation of 50 St. Louisans, reenforce ii by delegates from the east, left St Louis Tuesday for San Francisco to take.pari .i» the convention of Turner societies there o.i July 4. The fourth expedition to the Philippines will probably sail about July 9, with either Brig. Gen. M. P. Miller or H. G. Otis ui command. Maj Gen. Otis will accompany tne sguauron. fid ward Dearth, a private of company ii Sixth Illinois «volunteers, was drown ti Monday while bathing in the Potomac river, about one and a half miles above Cal..a John bridge. William Henry Rhawn, the well-knot, n banker and ex-president of the Amer' ,i Bankers' association, died Monday nig at ut the residence of Fox Chase, a subu.a of Philadelphia, aged MS years. The interruption of regular steam communication with Honolulu, caused by tno use of the regular ocean steamers as trum - pprts for the army going to Manila, it i.« said, will entail great loss to the banai.a growers of the Hawaiian islands. By tile collapse t»f a building in Lancaster, Tex., Birdy Nattles, daughter of Henry Nattles, was killed, ana five others injur, a, two of them fatally The building tl.-t collapsed was in the White block, a. a faulty construction Is said to have cam, a its downfall. Allie Walsh murdered his mother at LakeCity, Minn., Monday by crushing her skt..l with an ax. He is about 22 years old, ai.d the crime was committed at their home, übout five miles from there. The young man had bien connned in the Rochester, insane asylum. ,