Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — News Of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News Of Minor Note.

Driver Hughes of the fire department of New York City saved ten lives at a recent tenement bouse fire. In 1900 Iceland will celebrate the 900tbannlversary of the introduction of Christianity into the island. There are forty-five colleges and seventeen State Christian associations among the colored people of North Carolina. Besides the rinderpest South Africa’s worst plague consists of the myriads ot grasshoppers, which are sometimes sodense that they stop railway trains.