Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1907 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

The three-story wooden grain elevator of O. B. Tilton in Nashua. N. H., wu burned. The loss is $4,000. Italian officials have decided that the excavations at Herculaneum will be carried out by the Italian government without foreign aid. Prof. Matteucci of the Vesuvius observatory denies that he prophesb-d the possible destruction of the world by. a comet. A dispatch from Tangier asserts that a French syndicate has erected witnless telegraph stations nt nearly all the Moroccan ports, including Tangier. The George Washington university has appointed an alumni committee and a citizens' committee to raise $400,000 to purchase a new site for the institution. It has become known in Rome that Spain is ready •to indorse the AngloAmerican proposition at The Hague conference for the limitation of armament*