Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Since March l, 1899, th e public debt ha Jay Gould's fortune is estimated conservatively at f 93,000,000. Mr. Cleveland left Broadwater island •and returned to New York Sunday. The barb-wire interests have again been combined into a gigantic trust,with $4,000OCO capital. It is proposed to prohibit immigration from Europe next year as a precaution against cholera. " 5E55S Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, is dangerously ill. Mi. Blaine and Senator Kenua are improving. Tho Government’s weather crop bulletin shows favorable conditions in all winter wheat-growing sections. ::;Z~ An engine struck a loaded stroet car at Philadelphia Sunday. Eleven persons trhro Injured, two fatally. Bnsscll B. Harrison's paper at .Halena, Montana. was sold on the 2d under attaehSilver men believo tho Rothschild props osition made to tho monetary conference is a scheme to demonetize silver, Manquon, 111., a little village sixteen miles east .of Galesburg, was almost entirely consumed by fire Saturday afternoon. Two,women were killed and three injured, being members of a picnic party struck by an engine near Denver, Col., on the 2d, —■- - ■ " • * The Northern Pacific railway has boon compelled to place armed sentinels along its coast division to prevent train robberios. Paul Jordan, aged 106. died at the county infirmary at Findlay, ft, nn the 2d. lie claimed to be the illegitimate child of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Near Enterprise, Ky., Carl Burnham killed his wife by cutting her throat with a razor and then committed suicide by shooting through the head. Stamboul and other lino horses of the Hobart (Col.Tstock farm, are on theiFwav to Now York to be sold. It Is belioved Stamboul will bring SIOO,OOO. The Indians on the Keneslia reservation are clear of debt and have $273,000 to their credit, on the reservation is that caused by drunkenness. President Harrison, it is said, will leave ’the White House almost as poor as he entered It, partly on account of the many extraordinary expenses lie was put to. A lake captain at Chicago who was ■wrecked on the lake shore five years ago and “squatted” on the spot is now surrounded by land created by dumpings that ■is valued at $300,000.

The funeral services over the remains of the late Jay Gould wero held Monday They wore syld to be simple but inipresIve. consisting of the reading of Scriptures, singing of hymns and prayer. Mrs. E. J. Allen, a member of tho Lovejoy street Methodist Episcopal church Buffalo, has brought suit against her pastor, the Rev. E, J. Cook, for $5,000 damages, for defamation of character. Attorney George S. Ko\in, of Denver Col„ lias disappeared with SIOO,OOO of other people’s money Tho worst sufferers are three daughters, whoso father's estate Edim was managing.'" ' ■ Tho damage suit of G. W. Herrick ~r mgatnet-the-Lake-Shero-railroad was decided at Norwalk, 0., Tuesday, the plaintiff getting $9,C00. Tho case has been on trial eleven years, Herrick has since died’ 4 A miserly farmer near Niagara Falls, NY., believed the.comet would “wipe us all out,” and that he might get the benefit of •his accumulations, drew all of his money ■out of the bank and spent it or divided it among his 'Children w ith the admonition for them to spend. The eld man has nearly gone crazy since the failure of the comet to do its direful work. A new labor organization, the United Railway Men of America, has just been started, with headquarters at Chicago. It is clairoel that its membership will comprise over half a million railroad employes taking la men in and out of the various

brotherhoods. There is lobe no “insurance" feature attached, and the object is the maintenance of wages and the redress >' of grievances. Tiie United States Supreme Court Monday, hi the Chicago-Illinois Central lake trout case, decided against the railroad •eubseiueutly affirming the decision of th® court below. Justice Field delivered the opinion. This is tho litigation that has been pending so many years, involving the title to that large and exceedingly valuable tract of land known as the “Lake front,” on the west shore of Lake Michigan, extending back across the Illinois Central tracks to Michigan avenue. Tho decision sustains tho city’s right to th® property.