Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The Czar of Russia is soon to visit the Pope in Rome. There is an epidemic of smallpox in Salt Lake County, Utah. New York City nfounted policemen have been sent to West Point for special instruction in horsemanship. All the telegraph operators on the Wisconsin Central Railroad have been granted an increase in salary. Missouri Pacific engkie No. 1224, turned oVer near Lake City, Mo., on the river route, killing Conductor Mike Sullivan and pinning Fireman Dougherty .mder the wreck. A reform wave has reached Seattle, Wash, and all the gambling has been ■topped by order of Chief of Police Sullivan, many disorderly houses closed and the slot machines ordered to cease running. ■ There has hot been a successful escape from the State penitentiary at Hutchinson, Kan., in two years, though four attempts have been made and temporary liberty gained by a number of the inmates. Captain A. P. Mordaunt, who is credited with having made the first discovery of pay gold at Nome, died in San Francisco of a complication of diseases. One of the big Minneapolis flour mills has been bonded for the purpose of grinding Canadian wheat exclusively, all the products to be exported to England. Senor Rodrigues, the father of a girl who eloped recently with Senor Infanzon, ■hot and killed the latter as be was being brought into court in Cuba. Rodriguez was arrested. Infanson is alleged to have previously induced other girls to etope. *