Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — Told in a Few Linen. [ARTICLE]

Told in a Few Linen.

The customs receipts of the Government are reported to be $560,000 a day. A monument to George Washington, to cost $25,000, is to be erected in Chicago. The former Spanish' gunboat Baracoa, sunk in the Mayari river, Cuba, has been raised. Alfred Nading, a prominent farmer living north of Richmond, Mo., was found dead in his bed by his family.* One hundred and forty-six more bales of cotton were brought to sight in the past five months than in the same period last year. Lieut. B. W. Wells, Jr., Admiral Schley’s private secretary, has assumed command of the naval recruiting station at Chicago. Orders have been issued to break up the old Austrian frigate Novara, which conveyed Emperdr Maximilian to Mexico and later took his body home. The New York Assembly has passed and the Governor has signed a bill to prevent the desecration, mutilation or improper use of the national flag. Gen. M. P. Miller, who commanded the United States forces at the capture of Iloilo recently, will be retired in a few days, having been forty-one years in service. Gen. Wood has decided that one regiment is sufficient to garrison Santiago city. All is quiet in the surrounding country, and cane is being ground on all of the sugar estates. The Cubans who insulted the memory of the late Gen. Garcia by refusing to pa« rade at his funeral have petitioned the President to remove Gen. Brooke from command at Havana. Some time ago the water in a well near Berlin,