Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

In the United States 1898 was the warmest year on record. Prance is reported to be willing at last to sell her Newfoundland shore rights toEngland. Several fine steamers have been caught in the ice in the Ynkon river, and it isfeared that they will be lost. Gen. Jose Gomez, who has returned toWashington from Havana, says the people of Cuba are beginning to realize that: American rule is necessary for the present. ,