Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1898 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Owing to protracted drouth, many people in Monterey ('minty, ('al., are on the verge of starvation. There are over 200 creameries in South Dakota, the annual output amounting to nearly S3,(MM),IMMI. The United States Government will probably arrange for the raising of the Cristobal Colon and the Maine. A man snored so soundly in court at Covington, Ky., the other day that the judge gave him thirty days for contempt of court. The best managed dairies in Minnesota have reduced the cost of manufacturing a pound of butter to I.2Sc. The prevailing price in other States is about 3c. The terracotta monument marking the spot where Lafayette was wounded on (lie Brandywine battlefield, was blown down by the recent high winds and badly broken. Dwight L. Clough accidentally received a IMMrntolt s|iock from a dynamo at Loekpork_X. Y., and survived. He says that the electricity i*>> paralyzed him that he felt no pain. It is said that Mrs. McKinley willgtnploy a colored Woman known ns “.ffint Martha" in the White House kitchen for her kindness during Mrs. McKinley’s rvVut visit to Atlanta.