Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Negroes killed a New Orleans policeman Wednesday. Potatoes are worth $1.25 per bushel in the Chicago wholesale market. Ferdinand Ward is a free man, all the indictments against him having been dismissed. Dr. Norvln Green, president of the-W extern Union telegraph company, died at Louisville, Sunday. ===== tiTwo young ladies near Denton. Neb., are suffering from glanders, contracted from a favorite pony. The gamblers at Guthrie, Okla., have broken into the legislative desk and stolen the anti-gambling bill. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Big Four near Pana, 111., Tuesday. One man was killed and six seriously injured. A Chinaman committed suicide at New York. Wednesday, being the first case known in this country among that race. There is a conflict of authority between federal and State officials in South Carolina, growing outof railroad litigation. The City of Pekin, which is now in port at San Francisco, after being two weeks overdue, was delayed by a broken propeltor. Pickpockets are thriving in Chicago, and easily escape arrest, leaving their victims helpless and without recourse of any kind. Ex -Go vernor Foraker will not accept the appointment offered him by Governor McKinley as trustee of tho Ohio State University. Under the spijee allotted to Kentucky in the World’s Fair mining building at Chicago, a miniature mammoth cave is to be constructed. The Illinois Steel Company at Chicago cleared over $6,117,000 in the past year. It has decided to issue $7,000,000 in bonds at 5 per cent. , The Pennsylvania House,' by a vote of 150 to 13, passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes within the commonwealth. 7H~:

Heirs of Col. C. Clay King, late of Kingsville, Mo., claim $40,000,000 worth of property in tho heart of Chicago, known as the Bourbon estate. The Brooklyn common council has ordered the removal of tho statue of Henry Ward Beecher from the front of the city hall to Prospect park. Justice Harlan of the United States •Supreme Court, is in London, and was pro" sented to the Queen’s Bench by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Tuesday. Deer in Michigan find it almost impossible to get through the snow, which is over five tect deep, and hunters pursue them on snow-shoes and catch them alive. James Sebastian, a farmer living near Sherman, Tex., dropped a stick of dynamite on Ills stove. The five inmates of the house were horribly bruised and burned. Col. Ingersoll delivered an eloquent eulogy on the character of Abraham Lincoln at New York, Saturday night, on the 81th anniversary of tho birth of the martyTpresident. Kentucky Legislators are agilated over the convict labor problem. The present lessees demand further concessions, while the State already loses money under the present contract. Frank Hirth, an anarchist well known in Chicago and Milwaukee, committed suicide in Detroit on tho 9th. by taking morphine. He was despondent becauso he bad lost touch with the socialists.

James J. Hallan, the colored minister who killed his wife aLWinfield, N. Y,, has been sentenced by Judge Brown, of Long Island City, to die by electricity at Sing Sing in the week'beginning March 13. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, has sent a message to tho legislature deploring the recent burning of the negro Smith, at Paris in that State, and recommends the passage of more stringent laws to check the violence of mobs. Heider’s Hotel, Cincinnati, was partially destroyed by fire, Thursday morning. The structure had been condemned and ordered to be torn down within a month. It was packed with people. Fonr were burned to death. While Mrs. Oliver Pattie was away from her homo near Bellair, Mich., preaching, Tuesday night, the house burned to tho groand, and her three children, aged twelve, ten and six years, perished in the flames.

Rev. G. W. Angleberger, chaplain of the Wyoming House yf Representatives, has refused to recoivo his salary. He is a Seventh-day Adventist, and in his letter declining his salary says that it is unChrtstianllke to do so. The Norwegian bark Alice wont ashore at Long Beach, N. J., Monday night. •Eleven sailors were rescued by the lifesaving service by means of the breeches buoy. Five who attempted to land in the bark’s boats wore drowned. Rev. Father Sherman, son of the lato Gen. W. T. Sherman, In a lecture at St. Louis, Saturday night, stated that his father was at one suspended by President Lincoln on a charge of Insanity, caused by same incoherent dispatches which were tampered with. The college of physicians of Philadelphia, has adopted a scries of resolutions calling upon Congress to keep quarantine, at all frontiers under the supremo and exclusive regulations and control of the National Government, und administered solely by trained sanitary officers of the United States. Will Butler, colored, a step-son of Smith, who was burned by a Texas mob last week, was found hanging to a limb and his body riddled with bullets, near Paris, Tex., Wednesday morning. Ho mado himself notorious by boasting - that ho k/iew Smith’s whcroabouts before his capture, which ho refused to divulge.