Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Governor Dower of New York is ill. Baltimore's export trade in March amounted to $7,721,640. A cyclone visited Nelson, Neb., on the Ist, nearly demolishing the town. Some of the biggest concerns have not gone into the rubber trust and it may not succeed. -» Carmen Roderique. a Mexican women 150 years old, so said, died at bathe 31st, A safe trust, composed of thi Hennr ck_ Hall and Marvin companies, was formed on the Ist. The launching of the cruiser Raleigh was witnessed by 46,000 persons at Norfolk, Thursday, Gen/ Daniel Dusten,* assistant United States treasurer at Chicago, died in that city on the 31st. The Chicago grand jury which indicted the boodle aidermen doubts if there is sufficient evidenceToconvlct them. The Messiah craze has broken out among the Pawnee and Otoe Indians in Oklahoma. The ghost dance is again under way. Claus Spreckel’s sugar refinery at Phila.delphia was formally turned over to tho sugar trust Saturday, the consideration being $750,000.

The Sergeant Milling Company at Jop lin, Mo., has been burned out. The plans cost $150,000, and there was only s2s,oooinluranceon it. '►An exodus to the Cherokee strip and Oklahoma from Denison, Tex., has begun, and 200 citizens are bound thither in wagons and on foot. Now it is reported that young Timothy Hopkins received $10,000,000 instead of $3,000,000, in the compromise settlement of the great,will case. Jeremiah Cottle, an ignorant Italian who murdered a fellow emigrant in Brooklyn, N. Y., last July was electrocuted at ~Sing Sing prison Monday. John Riddle, a farmer living near Lexter, Mo., took his eight-year-bld son with him into the woods where he was felling trees, and the boy was crushed to dea th beneath a cotton-wood which hIS father felled. , , - ■, . Miss Annie Gregory, a member of the Episcopal congregation in Jacksonville, 111., has renounced the Christian faith and will leave for Chicago to study the Jewish religion, so she may marry the man of her choice, one Meyer Wiel. > The steamer Golden Rule burned to the water’s edge at Cincinnati, Thursday evening. She was to have left a half hour

;before she caught fire for New Orleans. There were fifty people aboard the vessel. Five lives were lost. Three or four others are missing. Later particulars make the burning of the river boat Golden Rule at Cincinnati still more appalling. It is now believed that at least twelve persons were burned or drowned. The boat had a very large cargo, and the pecuniary loss is henvy, also. A passenger train for Atlanta, on the Pacific railroad, was held up by masked robbers at 1 o’clock Thursday morning, near Weems, Ala, As the train moved away from the station a robber boarded the engine and covered the engineer with a rifle, compelling him to stop the train five, hundred feet away on a trestle. One man stood guard over the engineer, while several others opened fire on the inside of the train in order to frighten the passengers. Another robber knocked on the door of the mail car and demanded entrance, which was refused. He then broke open the door, fire at the postal clerk, who was slightly wounded. All the registered letters, supposed to contain about 86,000, were taken. The express car was not molested tThe robbery was done in a few minutes, in which timeseveral of the gang kept up the firing, and flagman Quincy Adams was wounded. The engineer said the robber od the engine was a white man> and the postal clerk says the man who robbed the mail car was a mulatto. The police started on the trail of the robbers with bloodhounds.