Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1898 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Archbishop of Manila xvill be ’recalled tn Home on account of his opposition to American rule in the Philippines. Mrs. Petrulin Durham has xvon a verdict for $1(15.000 in Chicago, and says she xvill give $75,000 to the Salvation army. The steamer Culgon has sailed from Sydney. Australia, with a cargo of provisions for Admiral Dewey's fleet at Manila. The cargo consisted of 5.000 carcasses of mutton.* 250 lambs, 125 tons of potatoes. 81 tons of onions and 22 tons of carrots. A grist mill nt Watertown, Mass,,is known to have been in use ns far back ns 1635, xvhen it is believed to have been a town institution. It is now the property of the Wnltbnm Ravings Bank, and still continues to grind corn by means of theupper and nether millstones, using water as a motive |s>wer.