Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1899 — Joseph Medill’s Prediction. [ARTICLE]

Joseph Medill’s Prediction.

The late Joseph Medill indulgec in prophecy a few days before his death. He expressed the belie:' that a close observer and a well informed man can predict what is going to happen in the future as well now as anybody ever conic and he puts himself on record as predicting that within ten years from the present time Cuba and Porto Rico will be in the American union as full fledged states; that the Philippines will be peaceful American territory; that the Nicaraguan canal will have been built and all the Central American countries will have been admitted as states to our union; that danada will have been annexed to this country and Hawaii admitted as a state. All this he believed would happen within the brief space of ten years and not long after, Mexico would join our unionUncle Joe was surely trlking to hear his head roar, that time. Buy the Deering binder and mower, best on earth. Sold by L. 8. Renicker. Near the the depot. When you want a good buggy or surrey of the latest style call on L. 8. Renicker, near the depot i