Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

• ' Six thousand aliens have landed at New York. ? __ Disastrous forest fires arc raging in New Jersey. Mountain fires are raging near Connote* ville. Pa. There weFe thirteen murders in St. LouisJn March. Louisville wants to be the seat of Kentucky’s capito). A Boston paper discredits the story of the loss of the Naronio. The remains of Jefferson Davis will lie removed from New Orleans to Richmond* Va. The Wire nail manufacturers have increased the price of their product fl per hog. Tho National Guard of Pennsylvania svill probably hold its summer encampment *.t Chicago this year. It is said that an agreement has been made for tho sale of the New York Times to a syndicate for $900,000. The last of the five million World’s Fair souvenir half dollars was struck off at the Philadelphia mint. Thursday. Henry S. Ives, the "young Napoleon of finance,” has secured control of the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus railroad. The New York Herald says that Presi-' dent Cleveland will call in extra session of Congress to meet in September. It is estimated that the public debt statement will show a gain of available cash during the month of $1,500,000. The proposed encampment of the NallbnaTGuards of the. different'. States to be held during the World’s Fair has been abandoned. Twins were born to Mr. and Mrs. Chase, of Lyons, Mass., March 2, whose combined weight is but six pounds. They are doing well. The stockholders of the Edison Electric Laminating Company at Now York voted to increase the capital stock of $0,500,000 io $10,000,000. . Commander Whitney, of tho United States man-of-war Alliance, is engaged to marry Miss Etta Ah Fong, daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant a£ Honolulu. The beautiful summer home, of Joseph Jefferson, at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., was destroyed bv fire, Saturday. The family cook, Miss Helen McGrath, perished in the ruins. Jansen, Neb., is excited over some alleged miraculous headings by a “faith” doctor. The foreign population attribute the results to witchcraft, and the healer narrowly escaped lynching. John 11. Starin, of the Now York rapid transit commission, announced, Saturdiy, that capitalists were ready and able to buy the franchise for tho underground system which had been unsuccessfully offered at public auction. A counterfeiters’ den, where silver coins wero being made, was discovered in the Arkansas penitentiary. One of the guards supplied the material, and several of the convicts did (he rest. Burglars broke into tho Savings Bank at Pawling, N. Y., Tuesday morning, broke open the safe and securrod ssoo*in money and SIO,OOO in government bonds. They were captured a few hours later. The Farmers’ Alliance of Washington has located a large co-operative warehouse at Tacoma, from which members will ship their grain. This is the only* Farmer's Alliance warehouse in the Xorth- , » W ;St. Quite an extensive petty swindle upon Englishmen is being operated from America. Widespread advertisements offer lucrative work at the Chicago Fair to applicants who send to the American address a half dollar to obtain priority. •’Billy” Hawley, the king of green-goods swindlers, and represented to be a nephew of United States Senator Hawley, is under arrest at Chicago. He was captured in a saloon with “Bill” Brico or Burch, anotho famous crook. The Columbian stamped envelopes wore Friday placed on sale for the first time. The principal feature of the design of the stump impression is a spread eagle. The denominations correspond in color to those of the* adhesive stamps. Kansas Populists have hold an indignation meeting and repudiated Senator Marfin. add decided to notify President Cleveland that Martin was not a representative of their party and that they do not desire any patronage bestowed upon him on their account. At Palmer, Wash., while John Peterson was closing his store three masked men. knocked him senseless, rifled the store and wore starting off when the alarm was given. A posse pursued the burglars ami shot one of them dead and the other two surrendered. investigation into the methods of Chinese residents of Portland, Ore., seem likely to lead to senatlonal developments. A systematic smuggling scheme for tho importation of Chinese from Vancouver, B. C., is said to exist, and local lawyers and notaries are involved. Mrs. M. V. Taylor, tho only woman dealer In oil well supplies in the country, died at the Monnngahela House. Pittsburg, Monday, from injvrtes received whtle alighting from a train on tho PanHandle railroad last June. She leaves two children $400,(XX 1 . Wm. Waldorf Astor, who rocently embarked in journalism in London, will start a literary magazine to be published simultaneously in London and New York, May 1. It will ho known as the Pall Mall Magazine, and will be sold for one shilling, or 25 cents in American money. Southern Maryland is excited over tho murder of Francis M. Bowie, a millionaire. His body was found at the bottom of a well. A colored man named Johnson has boon arrested on suspicion, his clothes being spattered with blood. Mr. Bowie was a member of the famous Bowie family. of Maryland. The United States Supreme Court decided, Monday, that when a foreign patent lapses by reason of non-payment of taxes an American patent granted thereafter for the same Invention is void. Tho action, It Is said at the Patent Office, destroys Edison’s Quadruples telegraph patent and also his three microphone patents, leaving the Bell Company, after January next, tt> stand wholly on the Berliner patents. The gold exported from Now York Tuesday amounted to SSOO, (XX) and all of It was taken from the sub-treasury. The loss of so smnll amount does not even cause comment in treasury circles, as the free gold at the command of the Treasurer now aggregates more than $7,000, (XX), and the treasury is gaining., gold each day In Its ordinary business transactions. At Baltimore, Sunday afternoon, just

before the funeral of Mrs. H. D. Loney, her daughter was married standing besidt the ■ trier, The wedding had beeu postponed on account of the illness of Mrs ■Loney, bu t shewished it to - take -place ir, her presence, and after her death th( above peculiar arrangement was decided upon. Miss Loney was married to Firs! Lieutenant Sirin, of the United States Engineer Corps, stationed at Fortress Monroe. President Higginbotham, of the World’s Columbian Exposition, has issued a manifesto denying the charges that have beer made against the management concerning .extortions for various privileges. 4 He states that good drinking water will he supplied free. Waukesha water will be sold -for one cent a glass to those who desire it. Fifteen hundred toilet rooms and closets will be provided to which free, access maybe had. Costly lavatories arid toilet rooms will be provided for which a charge of five cents will fee made. The admission fee of fifty cents will entitle the visitor to see everything on the exhibition grounds except the Esquimaux village and Colorado cliff dwellings, and a few special attractions on the Midway Plaisance, . Extortion of any description will not be tolerated.