Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

MrS. Cleveland is opposed to crinoline. Four miners were killed by a cave-in at Joplin, Mo*, Tuesday. In a crossing collision at Philadelphia, Wednesday, five persons were killed. So far as heard from, Charles Brown, a Louisville barber, has only four wives. Repu bl leans ha ve decided ter contest the Mr. and Mrs. Bussell Harrison will probably take up their permanent residence in New York. A disease calledj“spotted grip” is said to be carrying off a great many victims in Marshall county, Kentucky. The people are terrorized, W. N. Roach, of Grand Forks, was elected to succeed Senator Casey at Bismarck, N. D., Monday, on the sixtieth joint ballot. He is a Democrat. The Michigan Peninsular Car Company of Detroit, embracing a plant worth SB,OOO, 000 and employing over 5,000 men, is about to be taken to Chicago. It is believed artesian wells are solving the. drought problem in Texas. An immense gusher was struck on the Fulton ranch, Saturday, at one thousand feet. The Niagara chief of police has been instructed by the police magistrate to arrest

or order out of the neighborhood, the Cor-bett-Mitchell party should It attempt to arrange a fight there. _ Anna Dickenson has broughtsuit against four leading New York newspapers for libel in publishing an account of her incarceration in an insane asylum, laying her damages in each case at $50,000. Governor McKinney, of Virginia,has ordered the Howitzers to fire asalute of seventeen guns at intervals of ten minutes, Thursday evening, through respect to the memory of Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. Three hundred switchmen offthe Chicago & Western Indiana railway, went on a strike in Chicago, Wednesday night, demanding an increase in wages. Business is at a standstill, and it is feared the strike may spread. At Houston, Tex., John Kirby, on behalf of the Texas Pile Timber Company’s Ne\v England syndicate, has effected the largest timber sale ever recorded in the • South. The sale is standing timber and amount involved is $750,000. During the past few weeks earthquakes have wrought great damage in the Yellowstone Park. Owing tq the great snow fall particulars canot be obtained. Above Mamoth Hot Springs there is a solid bed of snow seven feet deep. Excelsior Geyser is very active. The Knights of Labor have declared,oil the boycott on Rochester-made clothing, and goods made there are no longer under the ban. The boycott has been on for two br three years, but by the agreement reached no prejudice is to obtain. b A Chicago paper is agitating the return

to the United States government of the 52,1500,000 advance to the Columbian Exposition commission on condition of Sunday closing, and thereby releasing the commission from the pledges given on accepting the gift. " Evardo Espinoso and Anton io Neira have been arrested in the City of Mexico on suspicion of robbing the vaults of the Bank of England several weeks ago. The men had in their possession a 81,000 bill which they claimed to have found by the roadside. It is believed they belong to a gang of bank robbers. The eldest daughter of United States Stevens, was drowned, Jan. 31, i|t Kukalan, a port on the island of Hawaii; Miss Stevens was visiting in the islands, and the accident by which she lost her life occurred by the capsizing of a small boat in which she had embarked to take the steamer for the United States. The Illinois legislative committee which investigated the Alton Junction horror reported Wednesday, that “there was no element of accident in the killing of twen-ty-eight persons and maining of thirtytwo but the inevitable result of mismanagement, showing an absolute disregard for the safety of human life,*’ The Wyoming Legislature having adjourned without electing a United States Senator, Governor Osborne, Thursday, appointed A. C. Beckwith, Democrat, to that position. The new. Senator will servo two years. He is a millionaire and an enterprising citizen who cares more for good horses than far politics.