Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1900 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Hotel Virginia, New York, waa damaged $5,000 by fire. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has asked the War Department to assign him jto duty in China. Acording to the recent census, the population of the Russian Empire is 129,200,000. For the second time blight has so affected sugar beets in Ban Joaquin County, Cal., that scarcely half a owe is expected.