Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Four men were killed by a boiler explosion at Fredericks, 0., Friday. Col. Dan. Lamont is recovering from his recent and long severe illness. The cornerstone of the Grant monument in New York, will be laid April 7, John Bromley & Sons carpet mills at Philadelphia was damaged $360,000 by fire, Saturday. Minneapolis, Thursday, shipped 175 cars of flour eastward, destined for Russia’ 8 starving people. Memphis negroes are emigrating Oklahoma. Six hundred and fifty left fcr that place Saturday, and 1,000 more are to follow. The Sergeant Milling Company at Jop lin, Mo., has been burned out. The plans cost 1150,000, and there was only 125,000 insurance on it. The United States steamer Newark, at St. Thomas, has been ordered to Venezuela to protect American interests, during the existing revolution. On his recent visit to Ann Arbor, Mich.f ex- President Cleveland was elected to membership and initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity, a Greek college society. : R. K. Page, the head of the Painesville, 0., bankt has decamped. Forged papers to the amount of $60,000 has been discovered. The liabilities amount to $600,000. B. C. Howell, of New York city, has contracted to pumo dry Lake Angeline in the upper peninsula tof'Michigan. The lake covers a large bed of iron ore. and is estimated to contain 180,000,000 gallons!. Lumbering operatibnSatAlpena, Mich,, are about over. There are now banked at Alpena, and in streams flowing to it, at least 200.000,060 feet of logs, sufficient to keep all the mills in operation during 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Stewart, of Millersburg, 0., stopped at the Buckeye Hotel, at Lima, O. They blew out the gas' Tuesday morning the door of their room was forced open and they were found as phyhiated, —• -

It is stated on good authority that Carnegie, the millionaire iron-manufacturer, is negotiating for the purchase of 1,000 acres of land between Whiting and Clark, upon which to erect a mammoth manufacturing concern. Walt Whitman, the poet, died at his home in Camden, N. J. Saturday evening. He passed peacefully away; He was born in 1819, at West Hills, L. 1., and be. gan writing sentimental verses eleven years later. His last volume of poems was issued in 1888, and was called vember Boughs.” He called One of his volumes “Leaves of Grass,” another “Drum Taps.” His newspaper experience also was wide and varied. A serious accident occurred to a Mormon family Saturday near Deming, N. MBrice Young was driving along behind another wagon when a loaded rifle in the front wagon accidentally fell and discharged, the ball piercing Air. Young’s ihoulder, then his son’s hip and then passing through the baby, and. struck Mrs. Mary Roberts, daughter of Mr. Young. The bullet very seriously woundl,he father and son and killed the baby Instantly, and slightly wounded Mrs. Roberts. John W. Gorman, the “human ostrich,” lied at St. Louis on the 25th. He was in the habit of eating nails and hardware of ’ various kinds. He was tdken to. the hospital on the 21st. Emetics given him taused the ejection of nearly a half pint »f nails, screws, etc. Laparotomy was then performed, and as much more indigestible remains were removed. After his lea th n post-mortom was performed and mother supply of hardware found. On the stage Gorman was known as James Kennedy. Evidence is daily increasing of the cor- ' ruption in Chicago's aldermanic circles. Nine aldermen are now under indictment, and the end is not yet. These aidermen teem to have had a system whereby every contractor was required to contribute to them. No improvements of any kind *jem to have been given unless the officials in question had been “sugared.” What is worse, evidence was given to the grand jury Saturday to the effect that the board of education has also been “influenced I ’. Banks Cregler a son of the last Mayor, is charged with being interested In certain appointments by reason of the “pav” which contractors paid. Altogether It looks as if several of Chicago's “best” will wear stripes.