Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

During the year ending September, 1898, 1,258 criminals were sentenced in lowa. The auxiliary cruiser Yosemite has been ordered to Manila, with men and supplies for Admiral Dewey. The turret of the battleship Illinois, now building, is to be adorned by a bronze bas relief tablet of Abraham Lincoln. While preaching in the synagogue of which he was pastor, in New York, Rabbi Sfhachmet fell dead in the pulpit. Camden, N. J., has now a plentiful supply of pure artesian well water. The flow is 20,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. The judges of the New York Court of General Sessions now appear on the. bench in gowns of blaek silk, with large, flowing sleeves. According to a report which has reached the Navy Department at Washington, the submarine torpedo boats built for the French navy are a success. Judge Perkins of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Mo., has decided that a. trust cannot collect debts in the State. The population of Dawson has decreased to 16,000 and the cost of living has also decreased. Good meals can now be obtained for sl. During this season the price of cattle in Montana has averaged 10 per cent higher than during any season in the history of the State. Patrick Haggerty, who would have been 109 years old in March, died in Pottsdam, N. Y. He was an inveterate smoker and read without glasses.