Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Light frosts are reported in lowa and South Dakota. jT;,- jiyT 7 JL IW Jack Prince, of Omaha, broke the world’s professional bycicle record at Decatur, 111., on the Ist, running a Quarter ißT3ssr: Talton Hall, a desperate criminal’who was charged with ninety-nine murders, was hanged at Wise Court House, vjT. Va„ an the 2d, At Independence, lbwa, on the 31st uTt., Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 2:05)4", lowering her recent Chicago record by two seconds. : . , ' The German evangelical - synod have adopted a resolution favoring the closing the World's Fair on Sunday. Officers for the year were elected . Valuable beds of terra-cotta clay have been discovered at Potoskey, Mich, The clay has been examined by experts, and is said to be of the finest quality. The hearing in the much talked of Borden murder case elosed on the Ist, and Lizzie Borden was ordered to jail to await the action of the November term of court A dispatch from Marquette Mich, states that tho steamer Western Reserve broke in two off Au Sable banks Tuesday night. AH but one of twenty-seven persons on board were drowned. The mystery surrounding the assassination of L. B. McWhirter, of Fresno, Cal.. Is still impenetrable, and the people aro beginning to fear tha assassins may be able to mako their escape. The reward fund has been augmented to $15,000. The totals of the cotton crop for tho year ending August 31 havo been announced by the secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, his figures showing aggregates of 9,015,379 bales, against 8,652,597 lost year, and 7,211,372 year beforeUast. A sudden rise in the Colorado rivor Is alarming people living in tho bottoms. Heavy rains are still failing and great damage is apprehended. Hundreds of dead cattle and all kinds of debris aro floating down, but so far no human bodies have been found. Mark Baldwin, the famous base ba'J pitcher, lato of tho Pittsburg.club, was arrested on the Ist on a warrant sworn out by Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Steel Company., charging him with aggravated riot at Homestead on July 6Ho Is accused of furnishing rifles to the strikers.

FOREIGN. An explosion occurred Friday in the Aggrappe coal miuo at Carnage, Belgium entombing forty miners. Ten bodies have boen recovered, Sarah Bernhardt rjdlculos tho idea ol the presence of cholera in France, and offers to give a benefit performance In any of the so-callpd cholera-stricken towns. While walking in Hawardon Park, London, on tho 3Dth ult., Mr. Gladstone was run over by a stray cow. He was cons id erably shaken up but not seriously in jured. The cow was killed.