Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — Start for Cape Nome. [ARTICLE]

Start for Cape Nome.

'Pile steamship Jeanie sailed Monday from Seattle, Wash., for Cupe Nome, Alaska, gold fields with eighty passengers and 400 tons of freight; the first ship of the season. Twenty-five steamships are scheduled to sail for Cape Nome ,in May. with ,5.838 passengers and 25,225 tons of freight already booked, leaving oifly about 2(M) passengers open. The ftotal earnings of the ships in May nt ruling prices will exceed $1,500,000. Charles Smith, it wealthy merchant, Brownsville, Neb., was shot twice the other night by his wife, who afterward shot hersClf. The man may recover. The old home of Chief Justice Marshall, at Richmond, Va., is to be preserved as a memorial by an association incorporated recently by the legislature ol Virginia for that purpose. Michael Cudahy, Chicago. has given $50,000 to the Catholic University of America at Washington. It is believed $1,000,000 will lie raised within a year. The French cruiser Chateau Renault made twenty-five knots on her speed trial Blairsville presbytery of Pennsylvania wants the creed revised.