Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The town of Ypsllantl, Mich., was demons hed'By a cyclone, Wednesday. Free Press, died in that city, Wednesday night An enterprising St Lonis pickpocket saved a drunken man from drowning and then picked bis pockets. 1 William Maxham, thirteen, and his nine-year-old sister, have tramped back to Boston from the Pacific coast. Carter Harrison, ex-mayor and mayorelect of Chicago, has been recuperating at West Baden since his last election. Cincinnati reports two distinct earthquake shocks, Tuesday night At the same time a terrific gale was blowing. Experienced captains say boats can now get through the Straits of Mackinaw. The .weather is very warm, with rains. John Hill, colored, was hanged at Camden, N. J., Friday, for the murder of Joseph Dodson, also colored, in October last

Bradstreot reports the business failures through the United States the past three months as the smallest of any quarter in the past eleven years. The total earnings of the whisky trust for tho year ending March 31, wore 12,432,of which f 1,262,158 has been paid in dividends and expenses. Mrs. Jennie Northern, o aged 110 years, died of measles, near Princeton, Ky., Monday. A daughter, aged ninety, is left an orphan by her untimely death. At an immigration convention held at Vernon, Tex., resolutions were adopted calling a convention to map a new State out of the panhandle of Texas. A sensational story is printed to the effect that Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, will abandon the ring and enter the ministry as an evangelist. Mitchell has not denied the report. The French count Do Keratri is in New York. He will try to raise $3,000,000 in tho United States to form a new Panama Canal Company. Hd hopes to complete the organization in two months. E, W. Henesley, his wife, son and daughter, living in a cabin on Grassy Mountain, thirty mllos from Greenville, S. C., were found dead in tho ruins of their home. They are supposed to be victims of a feud. John Sehardt. ca?hii r of the Mechanics’ Savings Bank and Trust Company, at Nashville, is short in his accounts from 140,000 to SBO,OOO. Ho is confined to his home by sickness and will not talk for publication. There is an exodus of small boys from Now York to Chicago. The district telegraph service has been embarrassed on account of it, and it has been found necessary to employ 100 men to fill up tho vacancies. Charles Hamburg was found seriously if not fatally wounded on the road near his home at Milan, Tenn. Ho had been beaten by his brother, who was in love with the same girl and who clubbed him through jealousy. A bronze statue of Columbus was unveiled at Chicago. Saturday. It is twenty feet high, and represents the discoverer at the moment ho sights land. "The location Is almost directly opposite the Auditorium; Hotel, and faces Michigan avenue. The Hungarian, Italian and Polish miners near Ilazelton, Pa., engaged in a bloody fight, Saturday night. Two men are dead, two arc missing and throc others are seriously injured. The trouble has been brewing for some time. Lieutenant Totten, whose interpreta tloft of Biblical prophecies has occasioned much comment, regards the destruction of the John Brown statue at Osawotamie by an serolite as ominously significant and a direct warning from heaven. I Judge Kelley, of St. Paul, has decided that a dentist does not have a lien on a set of false teeth attached to a gold plate after they have been attached to the mouth. The case had been before the courts for some time and had attracted much attention.

Miss Sadie Mp&ns, a telephone girl, was expelled from the Second Presbyterian church, at Charleston, S. C., becauso she worked on Sunday. She appealed to the Charleston Presbytery, and that body sustained the action of the church. The case will bo carried to the synod. *» Pardrldge, the ruined Chicago speculator, declares that he was misled by his friends and sacrificed by false information from those ho had a natural right to trust. Ho claims that with the resources yet at his command ho will stick to thn floor of the Exchange and yet get oven with his enemies. A citizen of Rumpass Mill, Stewart county, Tonn., purchased a barrel of molasses, a few days ago. The first of the syrup used seemed to have a peculiar taint and an Investigation was made, which disclosed the body of a 10-year-old negro boy partially decomposed. Authorities are now Investigating the case. In the Bering Sea court of arbitration, Wednesday, the President refused to admit the British supplementary report. Ex-Secretary Foster, In an interview, said that this action substantially sustains the American position. It is regarded generally as a strong point gained for our Gov - ernment. Miss Bessie Mitchell, who left Chicago ou a wager that she conld visit San Francisco, City of Mexico. New Orleans and New York and return to Chicago without setting foot on the ground, arrived at the World’s Fair City, Monday, having successfully completed tho trip eighteen hours ahead of time. South Carolina has a now liquor law which goes Into effect duly 1, by which the State will control the traffic and the profits will be covered into the treasury. Gov. Tillman and other officials were in Pittsburg, Monday, looking after the cost of bottles and liquid refreshments. Another big coal combine has been Incorporated in New Jersey under tho name of tho Consolidated Coal and Iron Company. It has a paid-up capital stock of •3.1,000, which It is authorized to increase to t 10,000.000. Tho object of the new concern Is said to bo to act as pooling agent for other concerns. A boy named Alllson.'sixlccn years old, murdered Mrs. Flanders, aged sixty, at Corfu, N, Y., Tuo3dfly. Mrai Flanders kept a little store and the lad owed her a small account for which sho asked payment, The father of the boy has become insane over tho crime of ills son. Yellowbacked literature Is said to bo responsible for the atrocious act of tho youth.