Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — THE NEWS THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS THE WEEK

■ Andrew Carnegie has arrived at New York. Roger Q. Mills has been re-elected Senator from Texas. Andrew Carnegie visited Blaine at Wash - ington, Thursday. Matthew S. Quay qas been re-elected Senator from Pennsylvania. Miss Carson, visiting at Fairview,Tenn., laughed, ruptured a blood vessel, and died. A plan to burn Hampton, Va.. was frustrated by the arrest of half a dozen of the . conspirators. Smallpox has broken out near Ann Arbor. Mich. One death has occurred. There are twelve cases. Sidney Smith and Willie Buff, of Martin’s Ferry. 0., were drowned in the Ohio river while skating. Peter Dudley, of East Chicago, has ap plied for permission to establish the National bank of East Chicago. . By the explosion of a gaso*.no stove at Baltimore, Mrs. Maggie Rice and her two children were burned to death. It is feared that the Dalton gang will try to rescue Emmett Dalton, now confined in Jail at Independence, Kan. President-elect Cleveland was initiated in the Sigma Chi fraternity at New York on the 26th, as an honorary member. A negro cut a woman’s throat and stabbed a man to death in New Orleans, Wednesday, and was promptly strung up by a mob. ■■ ■■- ■ ■ ■■■ Near Danville. 111., Mrs. McCollough' thq mother of nine children, was run down by a Chicago & Eastern Illinois coal train and killed. It is rumored in Philadelphia that John D. Rockefeller. Colgate Hoyt and others have formed a steel combine with unlimited capital and 14,000,000. At Bonne Terre, Mo., sixteen people were baptized in the river by a preacher, Jt being necessary to cut through ice eight Inches thick to get to the water. Edward L. Harper, ex-president of the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, and convict in the Ohio penitentiary, has been denied a pardon by President Harrison.' Col. John I. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, has been elected Senator from Wisconsin He is a capitalist, and is at present serving his second term as a Representativein" Congress. The Upper House of the Alabama Assembly by a vote or 17 to 15, refused to pass a bill granting a pension of 8500 per year to the widow of Jefferson Davis. An attempt to reconsider will be made. Pademal Peak, near Abiquiu, New Mexico, is in a state of violent eruption. Great excitement and a reign of superstitous terror prevails among the native Mexicans. The last eruption occurred in 1882. Seventeen Chinamen, illegally in the United States and under sentence of deportation, left Detroit Sunday for San Francisco in charge of United States Marshal Van Buren and a number of deputies. At a Methodist revival near Springfield, Mo., two men quarreled and fought with knives. Others became involved and four persons were badly slashed, two women being badly hurt and a boy mortally wounded. A company has been formed at San Diego, Cal., for the purpose of shipping lobsters, fish, etc., to Eastern markets. The firm states,that thirty tons per week will bo sent to Chicago and a car-load to Philadelphia. Michael J. Ryan, a Democratic precinct officer, of Gardiner, Mass., has been convicted of altering a ballot cast for Governor at the State election in November, 1891, and sentenced to the House of Correction for six months. “Old Hntch,” the noted Chicago speculator, who has been in the retail grocery business in New York for a year, has made a failure,of it, and has posted a sign on a piece o/ flour sack: “Store to let. Stock for sale at half price.’’ The Indications are that there will be an unprecedented rush into the Cherokee strip as soon as opened to settlement. A very large number of letters are being received daily at the Interior Department from ail parts of the country making inquiry as to when the strip is likely to be opened. The dry-goods merchants of Now York city are “opposed to the continuance of the purchase of silver bullion by the United States government, and favor the Immediate repeal of the Sherman bullionpurchasing act of 1890 by the passage of a law for that purpose, to go into effect at once.” William Mcllroy, a builder from New York, about thirty-five years old, shot and killed himself at Chicago on the eighth floor of the office part of the Auditorium building. Mcllroy had retired to a closet and was unobserved. He had 81,700 in his pockets. The act Is attributed to a sudden insane impulse. There was a concert given In Union Square, New York, Saturday evenfng.that was hoard with pleasure in Chicago. Long distance telephones were connected with Brooklyn and Chicago. The audience assembled in the Rand - McNgHy Building, and some forty receivers were distributed among the ladies and gentle- " men. Although a snowstorm was raging 5 the affair was a success. Tho different /solos were plainly heard, and especially a ' cornet solo. Brooklyn could be heard applauding. Bishop Phillips Brooks, the celebrated divine, died at Boston, Monday morning. He was taken 111 last Thursday, but nothing serious was threatened until Sunday evening, when dipthertic symptoms ensued, and medical aid waz powerless, and he rapidly sank until the end was reached. Bishop Brooks had a remarkable career and was regarded as the most accomplished scholar In tti A Protestant Episcopal church of America. He wag born In Boston Dec. 13, 1835. Indian Commissioner Morgan has gone to Chicago to buy In open market 400,000 pounds of bacon for issue to Western tribes of Indians under treaty stipulations. This bacon was contracted for last May at 17.54 per 100 pounds, but the contractor I has failed to fulfill his agreement and the government will, therefore, make the purchase, charging to the contractor the difference between the price agreed upon and the present market price. Since last Mav bacon has advanced tn price about 50 per cent. •’ FORKIQN. SEngland will.send troopsand war.ships to Egypt. One thousand persons perished in a burning temple at Canton, China, Dec. 30. The Dominion government will not im-

pose discriminatory canal lolls on American vessels during the next season of navigation. ■ • • An ice field forty miles wide and two hnn dred miles long extends from the mouth of the Danube to the northwestern coast of the Crimea. Sixteen persons have been frozen to death in Russian Poland in the last week/ One day the thermometer fell to6l degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. ( Five workingmen at Teotha boasted that they could drink all the Saale water they wished,despite the orders of local authorities to the contrary. 'On Sunday they drank the water as it came from the river, and Wednesday all five were prostrated with Asiatic cholera In its worst form. Prof. Armihcas Vambrcy, the wellknown Oriental traveler, is of she opinion that the visit to St. Petersburg of the AmeCr • of Bokhura and tho Kahn of Khiva is a prelude to the Czar assuming the title of Emperor of Asia, as an offset to Queen Victoria’s title of Empress of India. It is said that a new coat of arms for the Czar has just been completed, the design consisting of a double eagle flying over the sun’s disc. The marriage of Archduchess Margaret Sophie and Duke Albrecht, of Wurtemburg, was solemnized Tuesday in the* church of the Hofrath at Vienna, The wedding was one of great brilliancy, being a ttended by Emperor Francis Joseph, several archdukes and archduchesses, the King and Queen of Wurtemburg and other members of the royal family of Wurtemburg. After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom kissed the hands of the Emperdr, and the King and Queen of Wurtemburg. The Canadian Parliament convened on the 26th, and listened to an address by the Governor General, Lord Stanley. One of the first steps will be to pass a measure of commercial union with the United States. The project to build a canal from Lake Superior to the St. Lawrence river, through Canadian territory, will be a pet measure of the Government, and will have the ardent support of the Cabinet.