Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Oil found at Sulphur, La. Six thousand striking cigarmakers in Tampa, Fla., resumed work, gaining their point. Cumberland, Md„ “turned down” Carnegie's fi25,000 offer for a library. Didn’t want to increase taxation. A paper in the backwoods of Georgia reports au accident thus: ‘‘A negro yesterday was struck by the limited express, landed on a pig-iron pile fifty feet away, end fell into the river, where he was drowned.”