Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

A plague of roaches infests the northern portion of West Philadelphia. The Piccadilly Club of Cincinnati will present a loving cup to Admiral Dewey. It is said Spain never learns or forgets anything. It will therefore remember the Maine. J. N. Taylor, aged (M years, committed suicide by blowing off his head at his home, eight miles south of Marshall, Mo. Divers in Lake Huron hnve recovered 000 tons of copper from a wreck IUO feet deep, after it had lain there for thirty-two years. A cylinder band of a thrashing machine burst near Solomon, Kan., and killed George Parks, who was feeding the machine. Rome Armstead shot and almost instantly killed a yonng man named John Cooper at a wheat thrashing ht Champion, Mo. While cutting tobacco near I^incaster, Pa.. Henry Barr stopped to pick up a stalk and gouged one of his eyes but with Lis cutter.