Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

So far 1,279,900 persons have visited the Omaha ponition. Two million bicycles have been made in the world since the wheel was perfected. Prof. William R. I’uly. a famous swimmer and lif«> raver, died at South Boston, Maas. A committee of three statesmen having no interest in the case will be selected to dctcr/ninc the Alaska Ixmndary. There arc now l.ofiff sick out of 11.000 soldiers on the south side of Porto Pico. The death rat* liowvvur. <* low.