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

Independence Day.

Chicago, July 5 Dispatches from all part* of the country announce a general observance of the Fourth of July. In many southern cities, notably Atlanta, Ga., Mobile, Ala., and Vicksburg, Miss., the celebrations were the first that have been held on Independence day since the close of the war of the rebellion. The annual dinner of the American eoctety In London became a Jubilation over the victory at Santiago.