Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Big smelter at Helvetia, A. T., burned. Loss SIOO,OOO. Sterritt, I. T., postoffice was robbed of SSOO the other night. Cereal crop in Russia many million bushels less than in 1899. Telephone line is being built between Havana and Santiago, Cuba. •Mrs. Delia Walsh, Cincinnati, dead from broken head. Mystery. Robbers cracked a safe at Lunvaconning, Md., for S6OO. Escaped. W. B. and E. B. Friteh, San Francisco. arrested. Had $3,320 counterfeit. Miss Pauline Feste, 27, formerly of St. Louis, killed herself in New York. Nashville, Tens., voted $1,000,000 subsidy for a new railroad to Litchfield, Ky. John Redmond has been unanimously elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party. . Gov. Gen. Wood has issued orders incorporating all the Cuban rural guards into one body. For $250,000 Frank Rockefeller has purchased the Gobbler zinc mine at Wentworth, .Mo. Porto Rico Legislature passed its first bill. It bars delegates f/otn holding other public offices. An unknown assassin called .John Hallstre, merchant, Pensacola, 'Fla,, to his door and mortally wounded him, Cuba denies the $2,500,000 claim of Polto Rico on account of loans to Spain for war purposes. Gon. Wood refers the matter to Washington. Omaha, Neb., has inaugurated a campaign against the Sunday theater and the posting of obscene theatrienl bills. London Truth said that Queen Victoria would offer Lord Puuueefote a vfscountcy or an earldom on his retirement from the diplomatic service. The apple crop in Baden, Germany, was so abundant that the assistance of soldier# had to be asked for its harvesting. Attempts will soon be made by California merchants to put fresh asparagus on the market in Loudon and other place* in .Great Britain.