Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

The bubonic plague is rapidly spreading in India. Lompoc, Cal., grows mustard for the whole nation. In that region 2,000 acres are cultivated to the seed, the industry employing about 200 farmers. A victory tor American ship owners is the Treasury Department’s decision tlia. American goods shipped to Sknguny it Canadian vessels must pay dutn>*. It was reported that the* Prince ot Wales intended to i for the America’s cup. but that bc/was interfered with by the South Afrifnn war.