Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

A Boston fruit company now controls the banana trade of the United States. The new treaty between the United States and Japan goes into effect on July 17. Robert Lewis was hanged in Atlanta, Ga., on the gallows which he built two years ago. Capt. Absolom McCrary, one of the oldest and best known residents of Howard County, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, died at Fayette of imeumonia, aged 78 years.