Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Indian Territory has more than doubled its population in ten years. Thieves sfole n ?2,500 brooch from Mrs. Louise Bowers, Chicago. Africa contains 80.000,000 Mohammedans to about 200,000,000 inhabitants. Said that Maj. Unge of the Swedish army, has invented a noiseless torpedo. Among the 070 members of the new House of Comftions two are above 80 years of age. Lord Brougham commonly spent three or four weeks in study before writing a great speech. The following postoffices have been discontinued: In Kansas—Dean, mail to Oskaloosa; Walnut Grove, mail to Saltville. Manila has about 105,000 inhabitants. There is a smaller number of saloons there in proportion to the population than in any city of similur size in the United States. Active recruiting for the army is In progress in all the principal cities of the country. All enlistments are for three years, and the number of recruits averages about 2,000 a month. The National Live Stock Association selected Chicago as tbe place for holding its annual meeting next year. A memorial was sent to President McKinley, asking that the association be allowed to select an assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Col. Pink Hawkins, the oldest Creek of the Creek nation, died nt his home, west of Eufaula, I. T. He went to the Indian Territory with the first lot of Creeks that came from Alabama, and since that time has held many important offices of the tribe, at one time being second chief.