Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Along the entire Atlantic coast the reed bird and oyster season opened Sept. 1. Mrs. Mary'Mnxique, who died recently in Little Rock, Ark., at one time weighed o': r TOO p' unds. The National W. C. T. U. has asked Miss Loiter of Chicago to christen the battleship Illinois with water. Li Hung Chang’s dismissal from the Chinese foreign office does not divest him entirely of his official powers. A perfect model of the battleship Maine, cut from a block of anthracite coal, by a patriotic miner, is on exhibition at Hazleton, I’a. The daughter of President Fnuro of France recently expressed herself publicly in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus court martial. The memorial monument to Lafayette to Ik? erected by Americans at the Paris exposition will be unveiled ou United States day, July -L