Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1898 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

A now counterfeit $5 legal tender note is in circulation. The Farmers’ Home Hotel in Perry, Okla.. was destroyed by tin*. Loss S2,<HH). The customs receipts for \4O days of the present fiscal year amounted tr> $73,340,429. At Manila, law courts have resumed, Spanish judges hearing civil cases nud American judges criminal cases. Itonr Admiral Dewey will become ranking officer of the navy by the retirement es Rear Admiral Bunce Dec. 25.