Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Ute Indians are suspected of setting forest fires in Idaho. Chili is threatening war with both Argentina and Peru. Over 10,000 men marched in a big parade in Brooklyn as a public protest against blasphemy. Great alarm has been caused in Havana by the wholesale pardon of criminals by the Spanish officials. Zinc has taken another jump, coming within $1 of the highest price on record, reached four weeks ago. Andrew Adams, formerly a newspaper reporter at Providence, K. 1., is to marry Princess Kalulani of Hawaii Dairy products sold in Kansas last year were valued at $0,000,000, an increase of over 15 per cent over preceding year. The ultimatum of the powers to Turkey demands that her troops and officials be withdrawn from Crete during October. Mrs. Julia F. Trout lias sued Mrs. Barbara Frieh for SIO,OOO at Buffalo, N. Y., for saying she used pads to till out her figure. Elbridge T. Gerry and Robert Goelet have become citizens of Newport. R. 1., to escape the high rate of tuxatiou in New York. The Government has placed an order for smokeless powder at Santa Cruz, Cal., which will keep the plant busy for two years. . The overdue transport Senator, en route from Manila to San Francisco, was damaged in a typhoon and had to be repaired at Honolulu. The ignorant masses of the Philippine revolutionists demand absolute independence, though utterly incapable of selfgovernment. Three hundred men are to be recruited in San Francisco to take the place of the men with Admiral Dewey, whose terrnß of service expire. Edward Tomkins of Camden, N. J., had himself locked up in the Camden jail to prevent himself from obeying an impulse to kill his family. Two tea plates, each 200 years old, were sold for $12.50 and $0 respectively, at the old Satteerthau mansion, Fullingston, Bucks County, Pa. The residents of Abingdon, Pa., and vicinity are raising a fund to hnve the highways patrolled at night to prevent the depredations of thieves. The house and furniture of M. Emile Zola will bo sold to satisfy a judgment obtained against him in the libel suit growing out of the Dreyfus case. Corpornl Edwards of the Seventy-first New York regiment, who has been missing since the bnttlc of Sun Jose Hill, was found in a hospital in Brooklyn. Mrs. Annie Kline Rickert, once a famous Confederate spy, is now president of the Stockton and Tuolumne County Railroad, a sixty-mile track in (kilifornia. The visitations of the supposed ghost of Peter Christiano, who was murdered in Orange, N. J.. some time ago, are terrifying the Italian community of that town. Rev. A. S. Orne of Syracuse, Ohio, who' Inis made observations iu nineteen States, says that 95 to 99 per cunt of criminals confined in prisons were neglected children. The instructions given to the evacuation commissions at Havana and Porto Rico provide, it is stated, for the actual occupation of Porto Rico in advance of Culsi. The commission sent to Hawaii to examine into the condition of affairs has concluded to recommend a form of government for the island similar to that of the District of Columbia. The Gerinnn Government will shortly Invite the Governments of the maritime nations to come to an agreement to legally compel steamers to follow transatlantic line routes in order to avoid collision*.