Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — Notes of Current Events [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events

Cubans at Havana are angry because cock fighting has been barred. People at Atlanta, Ga., claim' that Lieut. Brumby is the real hero of Manila. Over 000 German families will locate on a big tract of land in Mexico. Cement plant, to cost $1,600,000, will be located on Prospect bill, St. Louis. Leon Jackson, a miser, Newport, Team, was murdered and robbed of S6OO by three men. Mme. Algeria Barrios, the young widow of the late Geo. Barrios of Guatemala, has gone on the stage. Miss RusseiU, Hamilton, Ont., will go as s nurse with the Canadian troops to the Transvaal. Hon. Geo. Seaver, postmaster of Pueblo, Colo., died suddenly while on a train near Buffalo,.N. T. Bather than submit to arrest on, the charge of wife-beating, John- Denboskey, Philadelphia, shot and killed himself. Six boys with revolvers, near Columbus, Ohio, fired at two country boys. Bdwin Belt was hit and m.y die,