Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1898 — CURRENT EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT EVENTS.

The war department has purchased two Atlantic liners for use as army transports. The village of Antelope, 60 miles south of the Dalles, Ore., was destroyed by fire. The loss is'not known. Detachments of Wisconsin troops have left Chickamauga for Charleston, where they will sail for Cuba. Gen. James H. Wilson may be sent to Cuba to set up a new government to take the place of Spanish authority. The Lehigh Carriage company of Dayton, 0., assigned to Charles J. McKee. Estimated liabilities, $115,000; assets, $140,000. It is announced at Washington that Gen. Miles will at once organize an expedition of 30,000 troops at Santiago for the Invasion of Puerto Rico. It is stated that the St. Louis team of the National Baseball league has been sold to Edward Becker, a retired capitalist and principal creditor of the club. A dispatch from Santiago dated Tuesday says Gen. Duffield is in the isolation hospital and is in a very serious condition. The nature of his ailment is not stated. Capt. A. J. Lumsden, an old and respected resident of Sheboygan Falls, Wis., is dead, after an illness of three months with heart trouble. He was 68 years old. The Pacific mail steamer San Jose, from Central American ports, reports that Central Americans are in sympathy with Spain and refuse to believe the news of any American victory. A number of the survivors of La Bourgogne disaster have retained lawyers to prosecute their claims for damages against the Compagnie Generale Trans-Atlantique, the owners of La Bourgogne. The number killed by the explosion Tuesday at Laflin & Rand’s powder works at Pompton Lake, N. J., is nine. Two who were supposed to be missing, William Fisher and his son, turned up all right. Capt. Sawyer, signal officer at Key West, has reported to the war department that the ship San Domingo was wrecked off the Isle of Pines, Cuba, while trying to run the blockade. Her nationality is unknown. F. M. Hatch, minister from Hawaii to the United States, and Lorin A. Thurston, special commissioner of the Hawaiian government In the interests of annexation, have sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu. Immigration Commissioner North’s report for the month ending June 30 shows a remarkable falling off in Immigrants at San Francisco during that period. The average number for the summer is 1,000 a month, but this report shows only 239. Cattlemen are reported as taking advantage of the withdrawal of United States troops to trespass on the Sequoiu national park in Tulare county, Cal. A force of deputies, fully armed, has been sent to the park to drive them away and serious trouble is feared.