Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A *3*O,OCB tre occurred at Williamsburg N.Y.,MtbeM. It is estimated that the late Indian war wiU cost *2,000,000, Kelly will play with the Boston Associm tion ball team this year, Arkansas is bankrupt and its legislators are sighing for their pay. Grace Gridley, of Am boy,-lit, has awakened from her year’s trance. One life Was lost by the turning of the poor house at Waterville, Me, W. A. Walters, a St. Louis consumptive, s re ported cured by Koch’s lymph. Chicago bankers have petitioned for the passage of the Towney bankruptcy bill. George M. Bradley, the first patient of this country to receive the Koch treatment is dead. An additional subscription of *5,000,000 is to be called for by the World’s Fair div rectors. “Lord” Schweinfurth’s “heaven” at Rockford, HL, Is covered by a *13,000 mortgage. J. N. McCullough, Vice President of the Pennsylvania railroad system, died at Allegheny City, Pa., on the Bth. Eighteen inches of snow fell at Saratoga N. Y. ( Saturday and Sunday. Bn sines 9 was completely blockaded at Albany., Residents of Kittson county, Minnesota, are very much in fear of an Indian outbreak, and are moving from their homes. A fire at St Louis on the sth destroyed the Pullman repair shops, eleven palace carsand fifteen surrounding houses. Loss *225,000. A Saloon that was opened at Benton Ridge, 0., was invaded by citizens and wrecked and the liquor poured into the road.

New England wool manufacturers issued an address on the sth in which they demand free wool. They regard the McKinley bill with disfavor. At Winnebago City, Minn , Miss Lent, a teacher, who was assaulted by the parents es a teacher she had punished, has died from injuries inflicted: General Miles denies the charges made against him by Mrs. Jefferson Davis in her book of cruelty toward her husband while he was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe. The Chicago Trades Assembly threaten to boycott the World’s Fair if union labor is not used exclusively in the construction og th? buildings and preparations of the ground. At Akron, 0., Clarence Rcnninges, aged eight, was crushed to death by his feet bee ing caught betweeu the spokes of a whee 1 and his body dragged in between the and the wagon. Five hundred furnace man, in the Illinois Steel Company’s plant at South Chicago, refuse a compromise and strike, and the work of the plant, the smallest of its kind in the world, is practically at a stand still. It is reported that a natural gas trust is being formed, and that the action of the gas company at Columbus, 0., recently in shutting off the supply on the plea that the wells were exhausted was part of a scheme to extort higher prices from consumers. At Clarke, Neb., the residence of banker Cowles, was burglarized Wednesday morning. Mr. Cowles was knocked senseless, and his wife killed. The burglairs secured about *SO in cash. A reward of *I,OOO hat been offered for the arrest of the murder* Sts. Late Tuesday night the F. M. B. A. par* ty submitted to Chairman Jones, of the Illinois Republican State Central Commit tee, and the Republican steering commit* tee, the names of A. J. Streeter, John P> Steele, of Mount Vernon, and Representative H. H. More, of the F. M. B. A. party, with the announcement that any one of them whom the Republicans might indorse would receieve the fuil support of the F. M. B. A. party. It is confidently expected by the Republicans and F. M. B. A. men that a combination will baaffected between the two parties teis we^wktalrwitttbsuTC in the election of a compromise Senator. The weather crop bulletin for January says there was no snow on the ground at he close of the month over the entire winder wheat belt, entending from Tennessee northward to the lakes and from Ohio to Kansas, and although the weather during the month was owing to the uniformly high temperature, generally favorable to the growing crops, the approaching cold wave and attending decided freeze leaves its condition uncertain. Reports from the Pacific coast indicate that the wheat is growing very slowly and that there is very little moisture in the ground. FOREIGN. The revolutionary spirit is strong in Spain. Nine children were burned to death in an orphan asylum at Moscow, Russia, on the sth. -