Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

3its*n B. Anthony was seventy-three years old Thursday. The Odd Fellows Temple at Canton, 0., . burned, with a loss of $75,000. Tlie funeral of the late Norvin Green yasliold at Lonlsvllle. Kv.. Thursday. The sewing-machine companies are re- *. ri d f aY ° ring t 0 f ° rm a trust ' treal carnival Monday afternoon while tobogganing Jarrctt, o' Celina, 0., whipped a pony and the pony kicked the life out of Mr. Jarrctt. The Hon. John Schoefield,{Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois, ’died at Marshall, Tuesday.. A twelve-foot anaconda escaped from a New York animal dealer last week and on Saturday was found frozen dead in a sower. Mountain lake, a large body of water J® West Virginia, usually oversowing at this season of tho year, is rapidly disap£ejpg. ..Mr. Cleveland. Friday, at Lakewood, that J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, had been tendered and had accepted the Secretaryship of Agriculture in his Cabinet. ~ Jn " “Napoleon” Ives is plunging agaiminthe New York stock market. He hopes to secure or Wreck a number of leading railways by his operations. At Columbus, Kas., David Deem, the "inspired teacher,” who has been on trial all week for insanity, has been discharged by the jnry and pronounced sane. Mrs. William C. Whitney’s will, which disposed ofa~thrcc-miHion-doHar estate, comprised only two hundred words. Everything is given to her husband. Chicago Republicans are urging Philip D. Armour to run as an independent candidate for Mayor, witli the promise of a probable indorsement by their party. The trial of Hugh O’Donnell was begun at Pittsburg, Monday. He will be tried for murder in connection with the Homestead strike of which he was the leader. Chaplin Moorehead, the oldest printer tn Eastern Ohio, was found dead in bed 6unday. Ho was born in Zanesville, 0., in 1818, and learned his trade sixty years " ago, living thertratttris life. President Harrison has proffered the hospitalities of the White House t.o Mr. Cleveland prior to the inauguration, and has offered to assist him in any way possible in regard to the public business. At Houston, Tex., John Kirby, on behalf of the Texas Pile Timber Company’s New England syndicate, has effected the largest timber sale ever recorded in the South. The sale is standing timber and amount involved is 1750,000. ; A Boston syndicate lias purchased the Milwaukee gas-works and will take pos? session March 1. The consideration Is 12,500,000, the purchasers paying 100 per cent premium on the 51,250,000 for which tho company was stocked. The body of a leper was dissected at Chicago. Thursday, and the autopsy showed that had died from pneumonia Treatment had conquered the leprosy to 6ome extent. The patient had been an inmate of a hospital for a year. GeorgoAppo, a New York crook, was Monday, probably fatally shot by Ira Hogshead, a granger from Greenville, S. C., in a room at the i New York Hotel, in New York city. Hogshead had gone there to negotiate with Appo for the purchase of green-goods. A systematic robbery of freight cars has been unearthed at, Kansas City. The Wabash railway claims to have lost goods to the amount of s2oojooo within two years. Tho gang have operated at Kansas City, Toledo, St. Louis, Moberly and other important towns on the system. In Lake county, Tenn., Sunday, Kimblet and Adams, two lumbermen, went out to cut timber. A large oak was cut and In "Tilling fudged upon a smAlI tree. Bdtli men attempted to dislodge the tree, when it fell, smashing them in a horrible manner. Both were dead when discovered, In the Whisky Trust investigation, Monday, Mr. Greonhut testified that he had been President of tho Distillery and Cattle Feeding Company since its organization. Itsshack was $30,000,(100, with eighty-two distilleries. A nuumber of plants had been closed—probably one-half of original number wore now dismantled. Ho denied that his company was a trust. Said it was simply an organization for putting their products on the market In the most manner and prevent over-productiofi. He know of no Government officials who had stock in his company.