Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public d»bt statement for December shows a slight increase of the debt. Prof, Horsford, the noted chemist, died suddenly from heartdisease, atCambrldge, Mass., Monday, A combination of piano manufacturers has been formed at Jersey City, and a trust is likely to be formed. Dr. Alexander Shaw, Chief of the Horticultural Department of the World’s Fair, died at Denver, Tuesday, The cashlcrof the bank at Laurens, la., was held up by two men while alone in the bank. The robbers got 1500. A time lock on the vault of the Fourth national bank at Nashville, failed to work, Wednesday, and the door had to bo broken down. , -- Dr. S. 11. Buchanan, the defaulting treasurer of the Arkansas Insane Asylum, in a circular letter admits that he is $5,000 short in his accounts. He states that he spent themonfiy.inchureh'work. Theßoston Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions urging Massachusetts’s Senators and Representatives to use every effort to secure, the immediate repeal of the silvor-purchase act of 1889. A restless disposition has been noticed for-the last, few days among the miners at Coal Creek, Tenn. The State troops have been fired upon recently, and the military authorities are preparing for more trouble. Ellsworth Wyatt, of the Dalton gang, recently captured in 'lndiana and taken t.o Guthrie, O. T., escaped from jail at that place, Tuesday evening, while Salvation Army services wore being held in the prison. President Harrison lias issued a proclamation granting amnesty to convicted Mormons, placing them on their good behavior, and releasing them from further custody or survillance on condition that they refrain from polygamous marriages. During-the year 189 g, 18,293 vessels arrived at the port of New York. It is estimated that the aggregate assets of the Economites amount to $20,000,-, 000. A dam will be built across the Rio Grande above El Paso for irrigation y - .: - . Milwankoo. during the last two months, has suffered an aggregate loss bv fire of $5,<00.(03. Ex-Senator Palmer has sold his famous log cabin farm near Detroit to a syndicate headed by Senator McMillan. The price paid was *1,200,000. To obstruct the new U. S, pipe line tho Standard Oil Company recently purchased a small tract of brush land near Melrose, Pa., on the Jefferson branch of the New York, Lake Erie & Western road. Wash., Mrs - . Notfio Brnndage, wife of C. N. Brundage, a prominent real estate man, committed suicide in the room of Attorney S. R. Clute, at the Grandview hotel, as tho result of a com-, promising nowspaper article. The astonishing figures, $11,865,114.2:! is tho total mineral production for Colorado for 1892, giving totals of $2,012,002.92 in copper, $6,683,478.34 in lead, $13,161,111.96 in silver and $5,665,898.42 for gold. Up,to dato the cost of tho eleventh census has boon $7,200,C00, and Superintendnt Porter is now asking an additional appropriation of $240,000 to carry him from the 4th of March to the end of tho fiscal year. A young lady at Rochester, N, Y.. received at Christmas a unique souvenirno less than an embalmed human hand, upon one fingor of which was a golden ring which the lady admits to having given to a discarded lover whose whereabouts are unknown. Tho horrible gift threw the recipient into a fit of hysteria - The hand will bo buried. There is no moans of tracing out the sender. FOREIGN. Tho dervishes in southern Egypt are displaying renewed activity. • King Humbert has conferred high deco' rations upon President Diaz of Mexico, and tho Mexican minister at Romo. Afoer many years of outlawry Ramn Nouaro, one of tho most desperate bandits In Moxioo, Itas been capturod and will ha siiot. Fifteen hundred anarchists held a reunion at Barcelona, Spain, Sunday evening, Them was much incendiary talkTho authorities have not attempted to interfere, but have made extraordinary preparations to prevent an nprlsing. Two now discoveries aro agitating the medical world at Paris. The first is a treatment for nervous diseases by injecting beneath the skin a solution of phosphate of soda, The second is the result ol (he researches of an English physician on tho influonco of food on baldness. He lias arrived at the conclusion that the races of men having the finest hair are those living on starchy substances.