Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

■ Lucy Lareom, the poetess, died at Bos* ton, Monday evening. The Florida Legislature, Wednesday, e“elected Senator Pasco. Mary Anderson is writing a book of reminiscences of the stage. Millionaire Lamb, of Akron, 0.. is mysteriously missing at Chicago. . Four men were killed in a mine explosion at Leadville. Tuesday. The town of Ypsllanii, Mich., was demolished by a cyclone, Wednesday. The St. Louis beer war is off and the price of the product will be raised to $8 a barrel. Mrs. Winfield S. Hancock, widow of the fate Gen. Hancock, died at New York, Thursday. The remains of Jefferson Davis will lie in state at Atlanta, May 29th, en route to Richmond. 4 Three suicides and two, fatal affrays occurred in St. Louis, Tuesday, at about the same time. At Monangahela City, Pa., James Burrtinette blew his mother-in-law’s head off, thinking she was a burglar. The imports.of dry goods at the port of New York for the week were $3,587,988, and the amount marketed $2,534,910. . Burr flawes was found guilty of arson at Petersburg, Wednesday, and sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fined S6OO. The new cruiser, the Detroit, on a speed trial, Monday, made over twenty knots an hour, tho fastest on record for a war ship. Frank Petnall, a farmer of Middlesex county, Now Jersey, has died from-lock-jaw, caused by a wheat beard lodging in his throat. Owensboro, Ky., ministers are making war-upon Sabbath-breakers, and have decided not to insert church notices in Sunday newspapers. At Morrillton, Ark., a mob took Flana ~gan Thornton; who murdered J3onstal 1 e Pate, from the jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The remains of ex-President and Mrs.

Polk are to be removed from Polk Place to a spot in Nashvillo, Tenn., just north of the Jackson statue. Mrs. Jennie Northern,oaged 110 years, died of measles, near Princeton, Ky., Monday. A daughter, aged ninety, is left an orphan by her untimely death. Hundreds of forged passports have been discovered at Tacoma. Collector Wasson, of Puget Sound district, h&s virtually decided to put into effect the exclusion of Chinaifien. Joe Cook, while working at his books at Scranton, Miss., was attacked by robbers, who got away with SI,OOO and marched him to a swamp, where they shot him, but not fatally. 4 Eight hundred Washington negroes have been transfered to Homestead and given employment by Carnegic& Frick. A large number of factories in Pennsylvania, it is said, will be filled with colored men. Edwin Booth, tho tragedian, is lying at the Players’Club, 10 Gramercy Park, Now York, suffering from paralysis. It is feared that this, tho second paralytic stroke the famous actor has sustained, will prove fatal. Sam .Tones has closed a revival at Bowling Green, Ky., that resulted in 2,500 accessions to tho churches. He received $2,300 for his services, and the people of that place consider that they have received the worth of their money. The waiters at the Hotel Waldorf, New York, were granted a substantial increase In wages, Wednesday, to prevent an organized strike. The hotel was filled with the party accompanying the Duke of Verngua and other distinguished guests. Judge Kelley, of St, Paul, has decided that a dentist does not have a lien on aset of false teeth attached to a gold plate after they havo been attached to the mouth. The case had b-cn beforo tho <ymrts for some timo and had attracted much attention. Monsignor Chappelo, coadjutor bishop of Santa Fc, N. M., has received assurances that Popo Leo will reply to the reports of tho American bishops on the school question in a spoclal document sottling the matter with the utmost clearness. 1 l J. K. Powell, traveling representative of Toledo (O.)Blade, was drowned in Blue river, near Cherubusco, while on a fishing nnd hunting trip. He arose in his boat to shoot a duck, and was overturned in the water. Deceased \vus thirty-live years old. ' : • Cornelia Martin, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr. Bradley Martin, a New York millionaire, was married to the Earl or Craven, an English peer, aged twenty-live, Monday, at Graco Episcopal Church, New York City. The ceremony was largely attended by tho elite of the metropolis. Ira Marlatt, who is serving a life sentence at tho Ohio penitentiary, is being cured of his stubbornoss by a new method. He was handcuffed to a chain pendant from the celling, with his arms held above his head, and all day Wednesday he stood in this manner. Ills hands and forearms are hiuo from lack of circulation of tho blood.

The regular schedule for cyclones Is stll! In force In the West, and they continue to arrive on time. At Osage City, Kan., Tuesday, four persons were killed ami an unknown number injured. In Scott county, Ark., seven persons are known to have boon killed and large numbers were injured. The damage to property canno{ be estimated. Several days ago, a dark- colored man purporting to be a manufacturer of cigars at Chicago, and Miss Marcia Montgomery, of Owensboro, Ivy., applied for a marriage license at Rockport, but it was refused on the ground that tho would-be groom was a negro. He gave his name as D’Officlal, as the clerk caught it, and was very much onragod because the county officer could not distinguish between a negro and a Spaniard. Tho groom declined to mako effort elsewhere for a marriago license, saying that would bring proof he was what he claimed to be. Two murderers, under sentence of death, eac&pod from Sing Sing prison, Thursday night. They locked the guards In tho coll after disabling them. It Is supposed that they had assistance from tho outside. Tho terribly stormy night facilitated their oscajie. The murderers unlocked the cells of Carlylo Harris and Osmopd. also under sentence of death, and IhvlUml them to escape with them, but they both refused. It Is believed that tho action of theso men in refusing to escape will Influence Governor Flower's action in their behalf. A The Louisville Council has ordered an •lection on April 27 on a proposition to is-

• - . - - ... • . ‘ sue $1,000,000 bonds to be given the State, together with a suitable building site, if the capital is removed from Frankfort to Louisville. Lexington has already offered $>50,000 and a building site. The Legislature is strongly in favor of moving the capital somewhere away from Frankfort, and unless this Legislature- does it, according to the new constitution, it must remain where it is. It is believed that Louisville will vote the bonds and that the new State buildings will be erected there.