Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Suicide Is epidemic at Louisville. A great find of hematite has been made near Menominee, Mich. John Williams, a St. Louis saloon-keep-er, was beaten to death by footpads Mon- _ day morning? / j Mrs.Grithrf?LnfEfflngtnhnrltt7;-droopcd dead i:jx>n finding that notes she held for (65,000 were worthless. • The pension payments this month are (14,000,000, a decrease, as compared with last month, of $1,000,000. Ten thousand dollar’s worth of diamonds were stolen s front a Sacramento jeweler’s window, Tuesday evening. m Desperado Rush Morgan was shot and killed near Hubbard Springs, Ky., Tuesday evening. Morgan had killed seventeen men. The police at Buffalo have arrested a gang of railroad car thieves. Over seven thousand dollars’ worth of plunder was recovered. Smallpox took a now start at 'Akron, 0., Monday, six new cases of the disease being reported. Thus far nearly fifty cases and ten deaths have occurred. There were two more deaths on Saturday, as a result of the Alton disaster, making twenty-eight victims up to date. At Paris, Tenn., eleven Seventh Day Adventists were arraigned in the criminal courts charged with laboring on their farms on Sunday. The Alabama house has passed a bill prohibiting the sale or giving away or otherwise disposing of cigarettes, cigarettee tobacco a nd cigarette paper. Mr. Blaine left a will bestowing all his property upon Mrs. Blaine and making her sole executrix, without bond. The total value of the estate is estimated at (800,000. “Pawnee Bill’’ says there are twenty thousand boomers on the border of the Cherokee Strip, waiting for the President to declare it «;>en to settlement. Congress has not yet accepted the offer of the Indians. Thomas Callan, the English dynamiter, has arrived at New York, having just been released from prison In England after serving nearly five years of the fifteen yean of penal servitude to which he was sentenced in ’BB on the charge of plotting tc blow up the House of Commons with dynamite. Thoronghgood Tazwcll, a negro, went to Deal Island, oft the coast of Virginia and asked a young colored girl, Leah Wallace by name, to marry him.' When she refused lie forced a revolver into her mouth and shot her dead. He has been arrested. Gov. Werts. of New Jersey, Monday, nominated Wm. Walter Phelps to be lay Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals. Gov. Werts is a Democrat and Mr. Phelps Is at present American Minister to Berlin, and a Republican. The Governor and Mr. Phelps are old friends, and the appointment is meant as a personal compliment.

foreign. The island of Zante in the Grecian archipelago was shaken by an earthquake, Tuesday evening, and many people were killed and injured. The French Senate. Monday, voted urgency on. a motion that persons refusing to tel! the whole truth when examined by a magistrate should be liable to the penalties inflicted upon perjurers. The Catholic News has received the foltowing cable from its Rome-rerrsspsad-•nt: , “Mons. S. Baretti has been appointed auditor and Rev. Mr. Hector papa) secretary to Archbishop Satolli. They will leave Homo for the United States shortly."