Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1898 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

Japan is alxiut to have built the moat powerful battleship afloat. The Red Cross Society has a Russian countcss among its nurses. Tiie Florida Legislature is unanimously Democratic. In 1901 Detroit will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the city by I’ere Marquette. Spanish advu from Manila are to the effect that the insurgents wi.l refuse to recognise the v. union of the isluuds to the United States.