Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The army appropriation bill this year calls for $90,000,000. At Gen. Brooke’s suggestion, the collection of taxes in Cuba will be taken away from the Bank of Havana. The New Hampshire Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the dissection of honorably discharged United States soldiers or sailors. Peter Holt of Dickinson County, Tenn., was shot from ambush in his yard, thecontents of a shotgun being emptied into, his right side, fatally wounding him.