Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Reports from the Kansas wheat Vop are not encouraging. July wheat made a jum p of three cents at Chicago, Wednesday. ** Gen. Hiram Berdan, the inventor of the famous Berdan long-range rifle, died al New York, Saturday. — -1 . - r A free love community has been brought to light near Wooster, O. Church people and ministers are implicated. ; Nearly 2,000 Polish residents in Trenton, N. .7., protest against the new treaty be* tween this country and Russia.An aerolite struck the monument to John Brown, at Ossawntamie. Kan., Saturday, damaging it considerably. William Smith, foreman of the American Strawboard Company, fell into a vat of pulp at Akron, 0., and was boiled to death. 4 The Allcn-Bradiy bonded warehouse at Louisville, containing 12,000 barrels of whisky, was destroyed by fire, Wednesday, evening. The New York World announces that the total amount necessary to free Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle has been subscribed. • - —rA negro desperado named Morgan was lynched by a mob of his own color at Graham, Va. Morgan murdered a law-abid-ing young negro. A powerful syndicate with $100,000,000 capital has been organized at Pittsburg to manufacture iron and steel products in opposittontoCarnegie’s. The birthday of General Grant, April 27, will be celebrated on a large scale at Galena, 111. Gov. William McKinley will be invited to deliver the oration. The Egyptian camel drivers recently arrived at the world’s fair grounds, went on adrunk at Chicago, Saturday night, and created great excitement in that city. The entire property of George Abingdon Baird, the noted sporting man, is left to his mother during her lifetime, and upon her death it is to be shared among the cousins of the deceased. The Kansas crop report says that 14 per cent of wheat in the State has been win-ter-killed. The condition, as compared with a full average, is 74 per cent. It is stated on the alleged and good authority of advices from Chili that martial law has been proclaimed in that republic. Definite information is awaited. A curious feature of the railroad exhibit at the Chicago fair will be a neatly arranged collection of railroad and steamboat annual passes once owned by Jay Gould. The beautiful summer homo of Joseph Jefferson, at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., was destroyed by lire, Saturday. The family cook, Miss Helen McGrath, perishod in the ruins. 6 After a prolonged struggle the Nebraska Legislature has passed tho maximum freight rate bill. Tho bill contemplates a reduction of about thirty per cent, from ''existing charges. Dr. Everts’s sanitarium for the Insane at College Hill, 0., was burned, Thursday. Loss, $150,000. The fire started from a hot soldering iron carelessly laid down by a tinner atwork on the roof. Tho two hun--Bred patients were removed in safety. Samuel Weist died at Kansas City, Mo., Df protracted hemorrhage of the gums. Purple spots appeared on his limbs, hands and trunk. Monday morniug he began bleeding at the mouth. Efforts were made to stop the flow of blood, but to no avail. Farmer Henry Bogert, of Mottville, Mich., recently met a smooth stranger who wanted to buy his farm for $7,000. The latter had a bank certificate of deposit for {IO,OOO and Bogert gave him the balance, $3,000 in cash. Ho is wiser now. Elections were held in Ohio cities for local offices, Monday. Cleveland chose a Democratic mayor and a Republican council. Toledo elected a full Republican ticket. Canton gets a Republican mayor and a Democratic council. General results Indicate a division of honors In the State. Senator Morgan, of the Bering Sea commission, in an interview at Paris, holds that the decision of Judge Ricks, of the United States Circuit Court at Toledo, recently. that no employe of a 'railway lias* the right to strike, because striking interferes with public business, is unconstitutional and cannot stand. Furniture dealers allege that they havo been done out of $40,000 worth of furniture by a World’s Fair fakir named H. H. Homes. He leased an old building near the Exposition grounds, which was to be transformed into a palace hotel. He secured nearly all the furniture on credit, moved Into the building, and. It is alleged, disposed of $20,000 worth of it. The rest was found stored in secret apartments in the old building and recovered.