Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A sole leather trust has beer forrtied. -jwo more bridges may to: biii'l between New York and Brooklyn. Ex-Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, died at Wilmington, Wednesday. The Minnesota Senate lias passed a hill extending, suffrage la women. The Cumberland (Md.) tin-plate mill has gone into the hands of a receiver. ' : • The New York' Legislature * has appropriated £300,000 for the World's Fair. The original .Constitution of thq United States will be taken to the World's Fair. Four men and a child were burned to death in an apartment house tire at Cleveland, Thursday. The Southern Oregon nickel mines have been sold to an English syndicate which is capitalized at $8,000.000. Corbett, the pugilist, and party. Wed nesday, were refused entertainment at a leading Pittsburg hotel. Revenue officers seized an illicit distill.-ry in Moore county, North Carolina, in the middle of Tuckahoo pond. Advices from Boring sea show that the steamer Alexander, from San Francisco, is already in forbidden waters. ! W. W. Stout, postmaster at Morrilton, Ark., has disappeared, a defaulter to the extent of several thousand dollars. The imports of specie at the port of New York, last week, were 61.120,820, of which $1,475,033 was gold and 6410,77.") silver. ' Jacob Schaefer, the billiard player, fell and broke his wrist at Chicago, Tuesday, consequently his match with Slosson is off, for the present at least. # Cincinnati and. Covington ice manufacturers and dealers have formed a combine capitalized at 63,000,000, to control the trade of the two cities. Smallpox has broken out in the old men's pavilion of the almshouse at Soako Hill, In. J. There are over one hundred cases in the pelt hospital. 1 Joseph Kicrsy, a Brooklyn man, while suffering from the grip, saturated his clothes with coal.oil and set lire, to them, and died from the burns received. A monster home rule meeting was held at New York, Sunday night. A message of congratulation ■ was -cabled to Mr. Gladstone. Bonrko Coekran delivered an eloquent address. The little town of Purvis; Miss., was almost totally destroyed by fire, Tuesday night. It is said that negroes, who had been worsted in a contest with white men, set the town on lire. Near St. Joseph.Mo.,Wednesday.;!farmer found a box on a sandbar in the river, eontuining the decomposed remains of four men and a woman, who are supposed to h avo been murdered. Ex-Secretary Whitney; who has gone to Cuba ou a pleasure trip, stated to the press at Brunswick, C.\., Sunday, that he had no intention of accepting office under Cleveland's administration, as his private affairs occupied all of his time. The Alierton Library Association, of Monticello, Piatt county. Illinois, has been incorporated and will proceed to erect a building for the line public library to be presented to the city of Monticello by Mrs. Samuel W. Alierton and daughter, of Chicago. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway claims to be blocked, and it will receive no more coalfor the Cliicagi> markot. Nearly one thousand miners are thrown out of employment in Vermillion county in consequence, and mining in (Tay county is seriously set hack. ... Witl.Waldorf sior-^-w-iio—roeently~ «»- barked in journalism in London, will start a literary magazine to bo published simultaneously’.in London and Ne w York. May 1. it will l»> known as the Pall Mall Magazine; and will he sold for One shilling, or 25 cents in American money. The relations between Rev. Sam dunes and Rev. Mr. Dobbs, at Oartersyille, (hi., art' very much strained. It is alleged that both ministers .carry pistols and a bloody encounter is confidently expected. The lie has passed, and the community is divided on denominational lilies. Chief Murray, of the Otoes. arrived at Tahloquah, I. T., Friday, from the Kiowa nation with .the information t hat the Kiowas. Otoes and Missouris are dancing and predicting the coming of the Messiah. Jin says that the older ones are frantic, and that unless the careless Indian agents do something trouble will result. Tho great annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge, crews look place on the course from Putney to Mortlake, Wednesday. Tho distance is four miles. The Oxford crew won by half a boat length. Tho finish was one of the most oxciting in tho history of these contests and was witnessed by thousands of spectators. “Atan auction sale of Washington relics at Philadelphia. Wednesday, an autograph letter by the Father of his country, dated Mt. Vernon, Dec. 13, 1790, one day before his death, and the last letter he ever wrote, was sold to the Pennsylvania Historical Society for 6830. Washington's secretary and hook-case was sold for 18, 000. other relics brought high prices.