Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

The president has Blgned the bankruptcy bill. Nine negroes were drowned near Plaquemiue. La., by the upsetting of a skiff. Henry Whitefleld, alias Perkins, and K. B. Brooks (colored) were hanged within the stockade of the United States jail at Muskogee, I. T., Friday morning. Prosper Duclann and Charles Cuscol, miners, were killed at the Aragon mine, near Iron Mountain, Mich., Friday by a fall of ground. Five other men were badly hurt. A severe north wind has done considerable damage to grain and fruit in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The greatest loss will fall upon the growers of wheat. One life was lost and two persons are lying at the point of death as a result of a lire early Friday in the house of Patrick H. Flannery, 5602 Locust street. West Philadelphia. At the commencement exercises of Norwich university the degree of master of military science was conferred upon Rear Admiral George Dewey, a graduate of the university. Claus Isakesoii, who recently absconded with over $7,000 belonging to the Pacific Rolling Mlhs company, of San Francisco, has been located by the detectives at St. Paul, Minn. -i was, rumored in Madrid that Capt. Gen. Blanco and Admiral Cervera have disagreed, and that the commander of the Spanish fleet was ordered by Blanco to leave Santiago. The internal revenue collections in the Fifth Illinois district for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, complete except about SI,OOO, were $22,021,248, against $15,859,716 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. The Minnesota supreme court has affirmed the decision of the lower court in sentencing Alderman George E. Durnam, of Minneapolis, to six and a half years In the penitentiary for attempted bribery. Advices from Hong-Kong were that a fierce tornado is raging, and that communication with Manila by vessel is impossible. Alarm is felt for the Wingfoo, which steamer was chartered to carry Important dispatches to Admiral Dewey. It is the general understanding among army officers at San Francisco that the next expedition to the Philippines will get off about July 11. Although the transports have not all been chosen, the available vessels can be got ready for sailing without delay. Michael Schwab’s body will be cremated Sunday at Graceland cemetery, Chicago. Memorial exercises will be held by friends of the deceased anarchist at Social Turner hall. Next week the remains will be burled at Waldheim cemetery beside those of the anarchists who were hanged. A horsethief was overtaken by a posse of citizens from Cape Girardeau, Mo., eight miles south of Marion, 111., Thursday night. When ordered to halt the thief left his horse and took shelter in a corn field. Shots were exchanged, but the result was not known until Friday, when the horse thief was found dead.