Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

General Palmer is ill with the grip at The grip is making severe inroads, at Milwaukee. , The Australian ballot bill passed the New Hampshire House March 31st. The Governor of California has signed the new law making train-wrecking punishable by death. f All the men at work in the building trades at Hamilton, 0., are out on a strike, and building is paralyzed. . The erection of building for tin plate works that will employ 2,000 men have been begun in St. Louis. Senator Sherman is on his way Westl He will spend some time, in Mansfield, O. attending to home matters. The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill requiring telephone companies to pay an annual license fee of per cent, on their gross earnings. It has leaked out that fourteen to twen, ty soldiers imprisoned in the guard houseat Jefferson Barracks, Mo., made their escape on the night of the 29th. The National Real Estate Congress which has been in session at Birmingham! Ala., for two days, adjourned to meet on the 10th of next month at,Nashville. A special from Ottumwa, la., says ex Senator Harlan is seriously ill athl s home in Mount Pleasant. His physicians and friends are worried about his position. The grip epidemic has struck Des Moines, and the doctorsi report that hundreds are affected by the disease. In many cases it is proving fatal. Reports from the surrounding towns show that the disease! general through central lowa. Robert Bartlett, town marshal of Prestonville, Ky., arranged to elope with the wife of Dri Contri on the night of the 29th, but at the last moment Mrs. Contri refused to accompany him. Thereupon Bartlett shot and fatally wounded her, and he also shot and slightly wouned Mrs. Halo, with whom Contri and wife boarded. Bartlett escaped arrest.