Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Cumberland Presbyterians will establish a college at Adgerton, forty mile* southeast of St. Joseph, Mo. Chicago officials have discovered th* wornout horses slaughtered in that town und the meat sold fur beef. Julie Opp, the actress, has been divorced in Ixmdon from Robert Lorraine, an actor, to whom she was married in 1897. There has been severe cold in the district of Perpignan, France. Crops ar* liable to be ruined and the farmers are in despair. The rumor that Great Britain intends to purchase the district of Lorenzo Marques, in Portuguese East Africa, has caused great excitement in Portugal. The Finance Minister, Dr. de Lukaca, announced in the Hungarian Diet that he will shortly introduce a bill providing for the abolition of sugar bounties in Hungary and will mgke proposals which the government thought would be beneficial to the sugar Industry of the country. 1 - •