Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The Philadelphia mint has began the coinage of $40,000,000 of gold bullion. An Austrian inventor has discovered a method of exploding bombs by the action of light. Commercial bodies of California have decided to ask Government tariff protection for the fruit industry of the United States. The North Carolina Legislature has passed resolutions demanding that no colored men be given political positions in that Btate.