Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Kansu wheat has been badly damages toy frost. ■ ■ ■ —— September pork reached (20.10 a barrel on the Chicago Board of Trade, Friday. «W. C. Goudy, the well-known politician of Chicago, died of heart disease, Thursday. Gen. Edward F. Beale, a close personal friend of Gen. Grant, died at Washington, Sunday. , Rohle and Pallister, the murderers who escaped from Sing Sing last week, are still at large. Gen. John M. Corse, of Chickamauga fame, died at Winchester, Mass,, Thursday, of apoplexy. ; A Danish steamer with the Russian exhibit for the World’s Fair in 3,338 cases, arrived at Baltimore, Tuesday. Monuments to John Ericcson and James Audobon were unveiled at New York, Wednesday, with imposing ceremonies. 2 John M. Thornton, elected city attorney at Shelbyvillo, 111., last Tuesday, was found dead in his office chair, Monday. Plunger Pardrldge Is believed to have already recouped himself for his recent heavy losses on the Chicago Board of Trader— Mrs. R Longmire, a Widow living near Clinton, Tenn., shot and killed a negro whom she heard in the dark robbing her corn-crib. The three Columbus caravels, Santa Maria, Nina, and Pinta, arrived at Hampton Roads, Saturday, in tow of three Spanish war ships. By the falling of a wall at Cincinnati, Monday, fourteen bricklayers were precipitated to the basement. One was killed and several injured. The Illinois Legislature is still in session and devoted Tuesday to tho discussion of the extradition treaty between Russia and tho United States. Professor Hopkins, tho West Virginia entomologist, has imported from Germany bugs which consume the insects that are destroy forests. Keepers Hulse, Murphy and Glynn, who were on duty at the time of the escape of murderers Pallister and Roehl from Sing Bing prison, have been discharged. Owing to the illness of Lord James Hannen, one of the British members of the Bering Sea tribunal for arbitration, the tribunal has adjourned for one week. The armory of the First Regiment, Illinois National Guard, at Chicago, burned Tuesday. Two colored janitors lost their lives, Two electric line men were seriously injured. The twenty-seven war vessels left the rendezvouz at Hampton Roads, Monday, for New York. It was a picturesqe and *tr!k!ng,spectacle and was witnessed by thousands of spectators. Giles Brothers, ono of the largest it not tho largest jewelry firms in Chicago, are financially embarrassed. Confessions of judgment were entered against them in the Circuit Court for 185,000. 8 Medical authorities assort that the Delaware, 0., students, who were so badly •disfigured by nitrate of silver last week, are not scarred for life. It npakes an ugly sore but does not leave a scar necessarily. A telegram has been received from Agent Bartholomew at the southern Ute agency in Colorado, stating that serious complications were arising on tho San Juan river between the Navajos and settlers. Troops will bo sent at once. General Grant’s birthday, April 27th, was celebrated in an appropriate manner in different cities of the country. At Galena, 111., an imposing demonstration was made and the address of the day was delivered by Governor McKinley. Micheal Sweeney, a thirteen-ycar-old Boston bov, while playing with some companions, threw a piece of telegraph wire over an overhead guard wiro of tho street railway. He was grasping tho wire with both hands when he fell dead. Gov. Flower has appointed Geo. Raines, of Now York city, commissioner to hear new evidence in tho case of Carlyle Harris, under sentence of death, and will be guided by his decision in granting or refusing » pardon ©r commutation of the sentence. Garfield race-track, at Chicago, is doomed. The City Council passed an ordinance to open a street through tho center of the property which will spoil the trade for race purposes. Tho order to commence work has not been given yet, however.— —~ “““ - ■ , 1 (•The “Ladies of the Grand Amy of the Republic fn Kentucky” have drawn the color line. Several circles composed of white women have surrendered their charters because tho State encampment now in session at Louisville, is controlled toy colored members. t Tlio apple crop of northwest Missouri and northwestern Kansas will bo an almost total failure. Ice froze in that vicinity, Thursday night, to tho thickness of noarly half an inch, and great damage was done to the apple and peach trees, which were in bloom. 6The sailors of the review fleet paraded he stroets of New York, Friday. The procession was viewed by cheering thouands. President Cleveland, while entering his carriage to go to tho reviewing stand, hurt his head so that it bled profusely and created great alarm. The injury was slight Again the flag of England went down before the Stars and Stripes. Saturday a dozen barges from the ships in the harbor started in a race for the international rophy offered by the citizens of Norfolk. ’The course was a mile and three-quarters and the San Francisco crow won, Chicago crew second, with the Britishers third. Tho flurry occasioned by tho infringement on tho gold reserve last week has passed away. There is no apprehension •-.t New York or Washington. Offers of gold have been accepted by the Treasury and no bonds will bo” Issued except as a last resort to maintain the surplus. The foreign gold shipments otf Tuesday amounted to $3,250,000. A train load of Zulus, bound for the World’s Fair, made things lively for tho Chicago pollco, Tuesday." They captured the train near Grand Crossing, and imprisoned the train crew in tho baggage*’ car. There were 200 of the savages, and they claimed to have lost some property, for which they proposed to hold the train men responsible. They were finally quieted and transferred to the fair grounds. At a meeting of the Troy Proaby tery, at Troy, N. Y., Tuesday, Rev. T- P- Savin Mid: “I do not like the idea of Calvinism. Calvin was a murderer and scoundrel. He said many good things and those I win accept, but the church should bean exponent of the gospel and not of

Calvinism.” Resolutions were adoptee urging the General Assembly to draft a new creed at the meeting to be held al Washington. Reports from Hawaii say that matter? are approaching a dangerous condition. The royalists are declared to be growing bolder because of the weakness of the provisional government and a conflict is expected in the near future. Nearly a hundred of the provisional government’s soldiers were poisoned recently and thf royalists are charged with attempting tc put them out of the way in order to execute a coup. Reports from the storm that swept ovej Oklahoma Territory, Tuesday, bring tidings of an almost unparalleled loss of lift and destruction of property. Fifty to sixty persons have been killed and property o) unknown value has been wrecked. Entire families were crushed to death. Scenes ol ruin and desolation greet the eye in ali directions. Thirty-one were killed at Norman, about thirty miles south of Oklahoma City. The repetition of such practice as thai indulged in by some of the students at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, will be 'a penitentiary offense. The Senate has made a law of Guernsey Taylor’s bi]i, making hazing a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from SIOO to S3OC and Imprisonment from six months to two years, and branding by use ol nitrate of siver or otherwise, by a term in the penitentiary. ..