Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mr. Blaine is in Boston. Samnel Eisner, a, Chicago cloak dealer, failed on the 9th for $50,000. John D. Rockefeller has given 135,0 X) to the building fund of Vasar College. President Harrison contributed S2OO in aid of the sufferers by the oil region disaster. A cloud burst near Dubuque, lowa, drowned over one hundred horses and cattle. Z. - • The Aurora, 111., City Council on the 7th, passed an ordinance raising the liquor license from SSOO to SI,OOO. Sidney Dillon, the, well known Wall street operator and financier, died at his home in Newport on the 9th. ; . The sewer pipe works of Robinson Brosat , Akron, 0,, were consumed by fire. Loss, $100,000: parti-rily insured. s The Boiler Manufacturers’ Association, at a meeting on the Tth, voted $5,000 to bring non-union to Boston. —ln addition to the 150 persons known to have lost their lives in the Titusville and Oil City disaster 150 more are missing United States will exhibit in the Government building at the World's Fair, specimens of the various implements used by the army since 1776. Jo<s E. St. Glair, wanted in many places to answer to various criminal charges,was arrested Wednesday in Sigorrrey,la.,where he attempted to defraud several secret societies. * ■ * ' . —Col. L. K. Polk, President oftheNational Alliance, and the most prominent candidate for the Presidential nomination on the People’^ - ticket, died at Washington on the 11th. The lowa State Board of 4 * 1 health has served notice of seven cases of srpallpox in Danbury, Woodbury county, the disj easehaving been brought by a stranger from New Mexico.^ The police of Fairfield, Conn., are on a strike, The first grievance was an order of Mayor Harrall that they report'every hour at a wooden post in front of his house This they grudgingly obeyed, but when the Mayor told them they must eat—their midnight lunch in his barn" it was more than they could stand, and they struck. Albert Coborly and Frank Mowbrey, aged respectively eleven and twelve years, tvere fatally crushed between Missouri Pacific cars, at West Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday night. They were riding oh the foot board of a switch engine. The engineer lost control of the engine and dashed into a coal ear, killing them instantly.