Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — BITS OF INFORMATION. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The state department has been officially apprised of the entrance of Camara’s fleet into the Suez canal. William K. Carlisle died In New York at the home of his father. John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary of the treasury. The Spanish minister at Tangier has gone to Madrid, it is believed, for instructions in connection with the American squadron’s expected visit at Tangier. Morocco has declared her neutrality. In accordance with the wishes of the war department, Maj. Gen. Otis proposes to nasten preparations tor the departure of more troops to Manila. The Peru and City of Puebla can sail this week If so ordered. The central cable office of the Western Union Telegraph company in New York has issued a notice to the effect that its cable operators at the city of Santiago de Cuba have gene on board a British gunboat. % Hon. Philip Becker, twice a republican mayor of Buffalo, N. Y., and in 1891 a gubernatorial candidate at the Rochester state convention against J. Sloat Fasset, is dead. He was a member of President Hayes' electoral college. One hundred recruits for Col. Wood’s rough riders have left Santa Fe, N. M., to join the regiment at Santiago. They are an exceptionally fine body of men, more than one-half being well built six footers and daring riders. Mr. D. N. Richardson, editor of the Davenport (la.) Democrat, died at Groton, Vt. He had been out of health for several years. Mr. Richardson was one of the old settlers of Davenport, and was well known throughout the west. The death of Mrs. Samuel Emerson, of North Beverly, Mass., which occurred Tuesday, brings the list of known fatalities resulting from the foundering of the excursion steamer Surf City, in the squall Monday evening, up to eight. A firecracker thrown into the open window of a shed in Orange, N. J., on the Fourth started a fire which entirely destroyed the large hat factory of Austin, Drew & Co., and a number of frame dwelling houses, causing a loss of over SBO,OOO. It was decided by Gov. Black Tuesday to call the New York state legislature to convene in extraordinary session on July 1L The principal purpose of the session will be the enactment of a bill to deprive police boards of the power of appointing election officers.