Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Chicago is threatened with a water famine. The ice in Boston harbor is the heaviest for years. ‘‘Four beer for a nickel” is the result of the brewers’ war in St. Louis. Delaware syndicate will establish big powder mills at Louisiana. Mo. Six cases of smallpox was reported to the Brooklyn, N. Y., Board of Health on Monday. The steamer Maj. Powell was wrecked on her trial trip through Cataract canon on the Colorado river. The National Association of Wool manufacturers have declared against any change in the wool tariff. Six convicts in the Wyoming penitentiary rebelled and attacked the warden. One of them, Tom Medden, was fatally wounded. General Master Workman Powderly, in a speech at Scranton, Pa.. Friday, declared that he was a socialist, and favored State ownership of railroads. Deputy United States Marshal John M. Nabors has just died at Robare, Mont., from the effects of wounds received in a pistol encounter with a cowboy. Memphis (Tenn.) Is experiencing a carnival of crime. Murderers and thieves have captured the city. One murder and five robberies emphasize the daily record. At Pittsburg the Braddock wire-works resumed operations after a five-weeks’ shutdown for repairs. The resumption gives employment to seven hundred men. The projectors of the electric railway from Chicago to St. Louis are asking that Congress will permit the materials for the road’s construction to be admitted free of duty. The St. Louis city treasury has been formally turned over to Martin D. Lewis. Ex-Treasurer Fotrstel will not be sued for no amount of shortage checked up against his son. W. J. Myers, whe, was sent by the Durango (Col.] Board of Trade to investigate the gold field fn San Juan, has returned and says the boom is without any foundation. oThirty-eight AlasHi salmon canneries have formed a trust with >5,000,000 capital under the name of the Alaska Packers’ Association, with headquarters at San Francisco. H. F. Miller, eashfer of the general freight house of the Chicago, Burlington ts Quincy road at Peorii. was killed Monday night by contact wth wire of an electric lamp. The coal magnates of Pennsylvania, acting with the Canadi » Pacific railway, have about concluded deal by which the entire coal fields of Nou Scotia will pass under their control. Nearly thirty moirocrs of the city government of Brookljj, N. Y., have been —lndicted for violation q law -in squandering money for the Coimbus celebration and in tho payment ofjishonest claims. The Northampton bank robbery has been dramatized, and antes Dunlap, convicted for complicity i ihe'cPfftio and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment, and who was pardotid Dec. 29. will bo Ibc star. At Roslyn, Wash., film D. Donetro assarted his wifo with*-hatchet, Inflicting two serious wounds] Thinking she was dead, he put a bullo through his brain. Domestic infelicity 'as the cause of the tragedy. Mrs. Dencro will recover. Whisky was marW up another 5 cents, to >1.36 a gallon, Meday, making an advance of 20 cents a >llon in about thirty days. Tho specula ve feature is still on, and the stock of prduct. seems to be going Into the hands of atsiders, who believe the tax will bo incrascd. The supreme coijt In tho caso of the De La Vergne rofrigetting company against Feathcrstone rulcthat a patent was not void because of thjdeath of the inventor between the times his application for a patent and its iluanco by the patent * office. The prolonged ibscncc of Lester Heidler and Samuel Jece, two young farmers living near Fairiew, Pa., who had gone to work In thi woods, led to a search. They were foununder a treo which they had felled. Hefer was lying under the trunk, crushedout of ail human semblanco. Reports fromariour- parts of the country show that P cold weather is general. Throughout, NV England it is hovering near zero. Frd Pennsylvania comes reports of extmo cold. Pottsville says that the seveift of winter weather is being experience throughout the county. With tho cession of the fall of snow, which continid during tho night until early mornix came a regular blizzard from the norwest, blowing at the rate of fifty milesn hour. There was dramatic termination to a gay social ,'hering at Potts town. Pa.. Saturday nkt. A largenumborof young peoplo hadtthered at thp homo of Win. Pollock antho fun ran high. All went merrily un it was time for the wine. Then Natln Pollock, the aged father of William Pock, took a bottle, poured out a cup of ti liquid, raised it and proposed a toast foils son and the company. He drained t) glass anti groaned aloud. Tho liquid wparbolie acid, which he, partially bfj, had mi'taken for wine. Pollock’wasoud In t're ,hMn half an hour. j FOMfcltaN. The feury in Ontario registers from 35 to SCplow. Mlsafaiices Willard was publicly received' Exeter Mali, Loudon, Monday «vcnli Lady Somerset presided. The <in Insurrection in progress in tho Acntino A large numbor of men on both have boon killed m tho several i ciflrnhc-s that l/avo taken place, Some of twrlsonnni have been shot. SoF Muraga has been appointed Spanish Ulster to Washington and the Duke of ynodavar dol Valley, at first reported to ,ve been appointed to the embassy at ashlngton, will go to the City of M*°pat discontont prevails among the ec minors In tho district surrounding {back, in Lorraine, auda the socialists pc sought to incite tho men to strike, y without success, though great un* /inew Is felt and trouble is feared, fho Mexican government has placed a llltary guard at tho ferries and cross;gs on the llio Grande. All persons are trlctly scrutinized, and those who arc lot known or cannot give an Intelligent recount of themselves are taken to mliltary headquarters. • A calamitous accident occurred Monday

at Penzance, Cornwall. While a numb** of men were at work in the mine at that place water suddenly rushed in and'drowned many of them. As soon as of the water was heard those who were nearest to the main shaft rushed into tho cage and were quickly drawn to the surface. Others at a distance were overtaken by the water, and their aries could be beard ~ resounding" number of men drowned has been ascertained to be thirty. Chancellor von Caprivl, in a speech to a committee of the Reichstag. Friday, favored an offensive policy - on the part oi Germany toward other European powers, experience having shown that when war is threatened Germany should be the aggressor, holding that it meant short wars, quick victories and lasting results. The speech is regarded as highly significant. The Spanish Cabinet has decided that if England should send & squadron to Tangier to compel satisfaction for the murder of an Englishman by natives in Morroco Spain would dispatch three war ships to reach Tangier at the same time.