Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Smallpox is becoming epidemic in Texas, it is said. Gen. Yaguaracutla, Venezuela, has been killed by the rebels. Harry Trumbull, Omaha, Neb., killed a footpad the other night. Bryan helped to dedicate a new public auditorium in Waco, Texas. The skeletons of six Indians were unearthed near Fort Seneca, Ohio. John Stout, Fort Plain. N. Y., stuck a knifo into John McMahon, killing him.