Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mr. Blaine bis health, deeds In Louisiana. Four murderers were legally hanged at Lou is vi He on the 9th. to New Mexico on account of the drouth. A genuine case of malignant leprosy has frightened half of. Detroit out of its senses. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Oklahoma are all clamoring for admission as States. Rich diamond fields? are said to bav n been discovered on the Snake river in Idaho. f. " An effort is to bo made to secure Gladstone as the orator on the occasion of the World's Fair opening. Polly Fish, who has served 33 years in New York Stale prison, was pardoned Dee. 9tti, by Governor Flower. ( Michael-Burkev anotlicF of The-partief* pants in tho murder of I)r. Cronin at Chicago, died at the Joliet penitentiary on tho Oth. - • 1 Dottie Crouse, aged five, whose mother is Mrs. Kosterlitz, a widow, is said to bo an heir to the $20,000,000 of David Crouse, the Syracuse, N. Y„ millionaire, Postmaster-General YVannaraaker- lias sent an order tp the American Bunk Note Company of New York, for three billion Columbian postago stamps, to be delivered in 1893. , Justice Ilarlan. of tho United States Supreme Court, will sail for Europe abon 1 the 29th of this month as one of tho arbitrators in the Bering Sea seal fisheries dispute. Minnie Weeks, a twelve-year-old colored girl, jumped from a seventh story window at Scranton, Pa., and was not injured except in the dislocation of her shoulders. tractor at Fairbury, 111., died Thursday under Christian science treatment for a complication of disorders that puzzled the medical doctors. Blood lias been flowing down in the Elkhorn mining region (W. Va.V On the. llth and 12th there were two murders, ono lynching, and an officer of tho law mortally wounded. Henry P. Whito, of Kansas City, Kan. has bought 1,000 acres of land near that city on which he proposes to coldiiizd all the negroes of the town into a self-sup-porting village. The City Council of Champaign, 111., has rescinded the permits pranted last spring allowing drug stores to sell liquor for medicinal purposes. A new ordinance prohibits the sale of hard cider. Thieves stole the turkeys of a lady near Ashland, 0., Thursday night, but dropped and lost a pocketbook containing SBO, The lady does not think she lost much in the exchange. One of the stockholders of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company, otherwise known as the Villard syndicate, is Prince Bismarck, who has invested the sum of 200,000 marks, or SSO,(XX) in the syndicate. H. L. Cornell, a farther living near Clarksville, Tenn., has discovered an In. dian burial place on his property. Ovor two hundred skeletons, tomahawks, native Dottery, etc., havo been unearthed. Miss Van Nordon, the eldest daughter of banker Warden Van Norden, a millionaire of New York, has joined the Salvation Army and is a full-fledged salvation soldier. The Vau Nordens is one of tho oldest families in New York. Piiii. D. Armour, the pork packer, on the 12th, gave to Chicago the Armor Institute, an institution similar to the Drexel institute at Philadelphia. . In addition Mri Armour gives $1,400,000 jfor itsimaiutenanco; a total gift of $1,500,000. Resolutions of condolence aud sympathy for the family ol the late Juy Gould wore adopted by the Memphis Legislative Council Thursday, During ono of tho yellow fever epidemics at Memphis Mr 1 Gould wired the Howard Association to I draw on him to an unlimited extent, and ■ the association secured SIO,OOO. ! Capt. Samuel Smith, the murderer of George Nolan, tho eleven-year-old boy, off Corouado islands, last Friday morning, has made a full confession of the crime at San Francisco. He says he brained the boy with a hatchet, afterward casting him into the sea. A number of hailstonos were brought into Brenham, Tex.. Friday, which fell during the cyclone Tuesday. Although three days old they weighed more than a pound, and when they foil imbedded themselves six inches in the ground. They penetrated roofs like cannon balls, and a large amount of stock was killed. A lady was almost killed by one coming through the roof of her house. The expert accountant who has been a work on the books of the freight depart" rnent of the Louisville & Nashville road a Cincinnati has discovered a shortage o, $45,000. Who is responsible for the deficiency has not been disclosed to a certainty, but suspicion attaches to the agent Joliu C. McCourt, and tho cashier, George Shotwell. Both 0/ them claim they aro in no way to blame for tho shortage. A starring story came from Homestead, Pa., on the 12th, to tho effect that tti« Amalgamated Association had entered Into a horrid conspiracy to poison ndn* union workmen by wholesale, by putting poison in the water and food. Six mil workers are reported to ho dead and many others are suturing from the effects of tills alleged crime. The cook is said to have admitted that lie was to get $5,003if he could succeed in closing tho mills, and has made, it Is alleged, a full confession. A few arrests are said to have been madeFloriun YVuldeck, a defaulting cashier who recently Bed from Ban Fruuelsco leaving a shortago of #25,090, was brought back from British Columbia and arraigned In court Friday. The fugitive would havo escaped If he had exorcised more care in his make up. He dressed as a laborer, blackened his face aud shaved off his whiskers, lint he forgot lo stain his hands At he was going east in an immigrant Irate, with a gang of railroad laborurs.lie happened to raise hit hand to seraph Ills boud, A detective who was passing saw bit hand, slender and whito as a woman’s and nabbed Wuldeck on tbe spot. , The sacred old air, “Nearer, My God, to F . j... -r-— p* i .. „ ..

Thee,” was played on a piano Wednesday evening by Miss Cora Benner, pf 1412 Oak streefc Golftmbus". 0., -wliHe For mother breathed her last in an adjoining roomMrs. BeiinoUs death was a peculiar one and Coroner Fahey was notified to insti--1 ute an investigation. She had been a great sufferer from asthma, and was in the habit of taking morphine to subduo her pain. At 4 o’clock Wednesday, afternoon she took an unusually large doso of tiie drug and soon afterward went to bed. A Ira I" hour later she called her daughter, Cora, to the bedside and requested her to sing “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” The young lady did not notice anything particularly strange about her mother's condition, and complied with the request. Wlieu she had finished playing Mrs. Benner wasf dead. Dr. Davenport,-who was called in, pro* nonneed It a case of accidenlr.l morphine poisoning, tiie supposition being Mrs. Benner hud made a mistake in the size 0 tiie doso. Mrs. Annie Tormev. wido wof an-XrU.h_ pioneer, who left nearly $503,000 when iie died, three years ago, lias just tiled an insolvency petition, showing That—she owes $179,701, which more than covers her assets. She lives at, Pimllo, Cal., on the shore, twenty-eight miles from San Francisco. As soon as Tonney was buried his wife and (laughters started out to cut a wide social swath. They thought nothing of spending $2,000 or 53.000 on a visit to the city, and the result is their bills for female finery ran up to$20.(0). Mrs. Tor' mey was also inveigled into investments and one of her worst ventures was with Algretti, the candy maker, who lias invented a process of preserving fruit from decay. Algretti failed last week and his failure brought Mrs. Tonhey's affairs to a crisis. Her preferred creditors are her daughters, so the money lenders who aided her are apt to lose their money, *~ }' ~ 1 j~- **