Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Seven people were turned to death in Kansas by prairie fires. = , ■ A rabbi was arrested at Cincinnati for practicing a swindling scheme. , Fred Starke, of Centerville, Minn., was killed !h/kpokcr game. Monday. The Wheeler Opera J lon-c at Toledo, 0., was burned, Friday. Loss SB(MXX). ' The original Constitution of the United States will betaken to the World’s Fair. S. W. Allerton lias been nominated for mayor of Chicago on the Citlrens' ticket. Nine mrii wore killed fry tai exniosiiTn i'n a coai mine at McAllister. Ind. T., Tues--d«y< ‘ . The body of Howard .J. Schneider, the. Washington wife murderer. was ,it, Baltimore. .. _ ' ■ -'U£ Two children left aloiie near Tampico?” Mex., were killed by fleas, that literally covered their bodies. A liquor bill is before the Massachusetts legislature to place the sale of liquor in the hands of the State. There is a fresh outbreak of smallpox at Akron. {)..om; of the guards during the recent epidemic being stricken. Serious, charges-have 'nee.:, made against Sena tor Road;, of Norlli -Dakota, that may lead to his resignation. —ReaF;A<lmiFaJtawtau('wrr!ivtiwia.tarart a thnMare Island Navy Yard. has been ordered to relieve Admiral Harmony. The Carnegie comyurny irrnpitrffTtig foreign labor in its works almut Pittsburg with negroes from tlie Sou,ln” From.all the information that 'an bese_Xur<M regajiL»ny,tlrewEh<tat ci-op.itjJ<Ansafr It can lie said that it is far from encouraging. Lord Herbert, an English nobleman who lived tire life of a hermit, has just-died in the Arbuckle mountains in Indian, ter-

ritory. H. G. Fox, collector for the First National Bank of Chicago, was "hekl up” and robbed <2f_M.'. , e:i on one of the stairways of the city hall. Mr*. Otto Sauciers, of Belleville. Tex., threw two of lie;; children into a well alid then jumped in herself. The little ones arc dead; the moth-z will die. George E. Mills, of the senior eidss of Yale, is dangerously ill from an orange seed. Nothing bat a delicate operation will save his life. Governor Wertz, of New Jersey, has signed the bitt making horse racing for purses or prizes unlawful in the months of December, January ami February. 6Richard Croker, the Tammany chief, of New York, has bought a half interest in the famous Bell .Meade, stud farm near Nashville, Tenn paying S2S'.),(XX) for the same. Contractor Frank Agnew has astonished the World’s Fair directors at Chicago by putting In a bill forsl4B,ixxi for extras in tho construction of the manufacturers’ building. The late Geo: Wr Li ch tenthalcr; "of' Bloomington, 111., bequeathed his collection of shell* ami marine plants, valued at $30,000, to the 111 tiois Wesleyan University of that city. Pension Commissioner Ranrn has to signed, and the Secretary of the Interior has selected deputy Andrew Davidson to take charge of the office until Mr. Raum’s successor ha.s_he.crLappain.ted _ “Eli Perkins,"the humorist, was “licked” hy a Pullman porter on a car le.avingChlcago, Monday morning. Tho humorist was badly disfigured. Tho porter was discharged at St. Louis. The- general sales agents of the anthracite coal companies have fixed tiic following; prices for eoa 1 this -spring; Grate, S3JX) per ton; egg. s3r.‘M); stove, $4.15; chestnut. $1.15. This is a decrease. Sixteen hoys are in jail at RockSprlngs, W. T„ charged with stealing a largo scale titan the basement of a saloon and goods from a wholesale dry goods store. The boys are from nine to fifteen years old. The Alabama National Bank, of Mobile, closed its doors by direction of Bank Examiner Cam phi 'll. De pos i tors wi 11 be pa id in full, but the capital stock of the bank is impaired to the amount of $02,000, or about 42 per cent. August Stanley and Henry Johnson-, members of a Pittsburg, Pa., hunting club, with a club-house on the Kankakee river, near Horseshoe Bond, are reported to have been drowned while hunting in that neighborhood. Tho Kansas Trustees Banking Company, at Atchison, Kan., of which Senator Ingalls is president, closed its doors M onday night. The liabilities of the concern are estimated at SSOO.IXX), and the assets will probably reach $700,000. Tho San Francisco police arc making energetic efforts to suppress tho Chinese highbinders. Within the last ten days three Chinese have been murdered in Chinatown and numerous affrays have occurred between highbinder societies. Acting under the terms of a resolution adopted by tho Legislature of Maine. Gov. Cloves has written to Mrs. Jas. G. Blaine, requesting permission for the State officials to remove the remains of her late husband from Oak Hili Cemetery, Washington, to Augusta, Mo. Customs receipts are increasing, and during the month of March it Is anticipated that they will foot up $18,000,000. For the first ten days of this month the receipts at the port of New York from customs aggregated $4,208,000, as against $4.905,0(i5 lor tho corresponding period of last year. In a fight In tho Athletic Club rooms at Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday night, Fred Wright, a young man of that city, was knocked out in the third round, sustaining concussion of the brain, from the effects of which he will die. Tho spectators and principal promotors of the match are keeping under cover. The British steamer Port Adelaide, which arrived at New York from China and Japan, Wednesday, brought from Singapore, for tho Columbian exposition,a large cd'cctlon of wild animals, among which are throe largo elephants, a tiger tiger cats, monkeys and several orangoutangs. Captain Jacti*) Vanderbilt, brother of the lato Commodore wnderbilt, died at his homo on Staton Island, Sunday, at tho ago of eighty-six. Jessie Jones was hung atl Jacksboro, Tenn, by a mob, Saturday night, for the shooting of Sheriff Burnett, on a train Saturday morning, while tho sheriff was trying to aid tho conductor In the protection of the passengors from a gang of desperadoes of which Jones was one. A bill has passed the Missouri Legislature for the appointment by tho Governor of an excise commission to havo absolute

control of the issuance of dram-shop licenses. It was passed by a strict party vote, as it takes the licensing power out ol tlie hands of the Republican collector of St. Louis. Gov.’ Stone .will approve th< bill. The Missouri Legislature has passed 3 bill to prevent bribery, and corruption in elections. Ills similar in many respect* to tho New York law, limiting.the- campaign ex pen ses of c and Id at os ,-i i.d req uir - - tag-them to furnish itemized statements' under oath of the amount expended or promised during the campaign. Howard Schneider, who killod’his wife and his hrotlmr-in-law, was hanged at Washington, I). ('..Friday, lie once held a high social .position, as the capital and his case had aroused unusual interest. Strong efforts were made to induce the President to commute his sentence to imprwonment for lite, bbt he infused Lata-' ter sere.