Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Chicago claims 1,428,318 people. Palo Alto, Senator Stanford’s famous stallion, is dead. > Mexico is proposing to lower its customs on raw materials. The Hour millers of New York city have combined, with a capital of $7,500,000. Reliable information is received that, strikers have sworn to kill thirty of tbs leading mine owners of Coenr d’Alene, Idaho. Tne convention of the American flintglass workers at Elmira, N. Y„ adjourned Thursday, It will meet at Marion, Ind., next year. > 1 ’ The Supreme Court of Michigan upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college Ore elected by congressional distriets. Chicago is very much disappointed over ~the defeat of the loan bill in the House. It proposes to go ahead and make the Fair as access, Just the same, _ An organized effort is to be made to enforce the Sunday-closing law at New Orleans, which has been inoperative because of the strong opposition of saloon-keepers. Moses Pollett, tho Degro who butchered his wife two weeks ago at St. Louis, because he was jealous, ha 3 been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree.. Rev. Sam Small was awarded SSOO dapages against a saloon man named Miner, who knocked out one of his teeth during a prohibition fight some months ago at Atlanta, Ga. “ Ex-State Treasurer E. T. Noland, of Missouri, went to the penitentiary Friday. He declines to talk further about his'ease,except to say that his mind is made up to take his punishment like a man. Vanderbilt’s yacht, Alva, was sunk to a collision Sunday night. Mr. Vanderbilt with his guests and crew numbering 32, were sound asleep at tho time, but al* escaped. The yacht went to the bottom Advices have been received at the headquarters of the Women’s . Christian Temperance Union in Chicago to the effect that Queen LHjuoklani of the Hawaiian Islands, has become a convert to the temperance cause. Three men stealing a ride on the side ladders of a Missouri Pacific freight train were knocked off while crossing a bridge near Pleasant filll, Mo, Two of them were killed outright* while the third wae ' badly hurt. They were evidently tramp* and have not been identified. The total production of pig-iron in the United States in the first half of 1898 was 4,793,056 gross tons, against 4,911,763 in the second half of 1891, y decrease of 112,704 tons. Adding^h*'production of the two half years, the production was 9,810.819 gross ton 3 in twelve months, which is 508.819 tons in excess of 1890. cA special from Columbus, 0., says: In formation of a nature so direct that its authenticity cannot be questioned was inadvertently disclosed to a correspondent to the effect that Charles Foster, Secretary’of the Treasury, contemplated resigning the office, as the result of the conduct of Ohio at Minneapolis. The stone crushing company at Clinton .Point, about a mile above Englewood, N. J., on the river front, is said to be in financial trouble. The company employs nearly fifty men, the most of whom have not been paid for a month or more. The menliave secured thirteen attachments against the plant and threaten its destruction unless paid this week, Most of tho laborers employed are foreigners and do not understand English. The statement was made at Pittsburg, Wednesday, that troops would be kept at Homestead until the trouble there is settled one way or the other. Tho women are especially bitter toward the soldiers, and tongue lashing is not infrequent. Burgess McLuckic was released from jail on SIO,OOO bail, Wednesday. Fifty nonunion men were prevented from entering , llie works by strikers.and for a time there was much excitement and things looked serious.