Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

Vast coal deposit!* have been discovered In upper Alaska. Of every six Mexicans, five are unable to read and write. Oklahoma had, an increase in the voting population in two years of over 27,000 voters. S>gate wholesale traffic in geese amounts annually to nearly of Downs, Kun.,' has more inhabitants, (tmong whom there is not a single Jawyer. Missouri will hav#Hbe lurgest Democratic delegation in tire next Congress of any State in the Union. The census shows that thezilare 1,400,000 more farmers in the United States than there were in 1890. • 'jK Thirty million persons left Europe during the century just closing to neck their fortunes in other lunds. Arrangements for Introducing the Americau cotton plant into German West Africa are practically complete. Under the Sherman act, from Aug. 13, 1890, to Nov. 1, 1900, there were coined 122,783,000 standard silver dollars.