Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Immense forest fires in California. England holds Colombia responsible for the death of Reginald Paris, a British subject, killed during the war. The Prussian Government is about tp take measures to preserve various kinds of trees that are in danger of extermination. . • .... There are only two surviving American Vice-Presidents, Levi P. Morton of New York and Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois. For an army of 30,000 men and 10,000 horses for three months it is estimated that 11.000 tons of food and forage are necessary. Whiteeaps nt Platte City, Mo., flogged Lo Berry because lie would not dismiss his housekeeper. ’ The extensive arid region* of northern Mexico are to he irrigated by canals from aid extended l»y the Federal and State governments. Paris police are much stirred up by a rumor that Esterhazy, Dreyfus’ chief accuser, intends to return to the French capital in disguise. Mrs. Ann Slate of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose son “Dan” figured in Mark Twain’s 1 “Innocents Abroad,” was 100 years old July 12.