Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

physicians announce that he i§fi probably recover,, TThe net increase in the public debt during April, Whs 83.762.619.4«*V JB me Brazilian warshipfthAb been dßTed home from New Yorlt ciClaus Spreckles* tho sugakkiaaiggHg Hawaii, investigating weount. pFive men were drowned c£a boat in the Littlo Red; river, in Arkansas. ZThe tissue paper Hinted Paper Compan&><Si,i goxie.into..the Bindsof a receiver. vSgPHjBSHM| * SBenator Frye, of Maine, qjsent eulogy on the late Tuesday night. stoatnes with thoJpiaSian hJhtt for the World’s Fair iHM,33i# 3 clßjijp arrived at Baltimore, TuegKy. JSFhe Supreme Court hasMheld the action of the Populist Governor hi ousting the Republican railway commissioners. first box of California cherries was sapped Monday to Chicago for the Duke efVeragiia, care of the managers'of the California exhibit. lift, fire at Hull, Tuesday night, in the sSSpping district, destroyed four houses aid a timber yard. Striking dockers are accused of firing the yard. feov. Flower, of New York, has denied the application for clemency for, £arjyle V|* and Harris wilVbe electrocuted, during the week beginning Monday next. The predicted coal famine is now an cctual fact at Duluth, The down-bound grain fleet, loaded with some 70,(XX) bushels of wheat and flax, is having a hard time to get fuel. . . .. . . . Admiral Gherardf, and about ninety aud United States naval officers of the Cdfuifibiari naval review fleet will go to the World’s Fair, Thursday,-via Niagara Falls. 4 The official report on emigration for 1892 shows that 51,000 persons emigrated from Ireland last year, or 8,868 fewer than in 1891. The total number of Irish emigrants Since 1881 is 3,418,343. Bandits robbed a train near Pryor creek, Indian Territory,Tuesday night. They secured about $2,000 from the passengers, but failed in their attempt to rob the express car. President Cleveland and party left Chicago Monday evening on the return trip and arrived at Washington at 5:55 Tuesday evening. The President and Mrs. Cleveland will visit the Fair some time during the summer. d Ttfo hundred switchmen employed In TM Fan-Handle yards at Columbus, 0., struck against the Importation of nonunion switchmen from Pittsburg. They threaten to tie up the Pittsburg division of the Pan-llftndle. Mails from China and Japan, received at San Francisco on the 4th, state that the river Hoang-Ho has again broken Its banks and done vast damage to life and property. In Shantung 400 villages and hamlets were submerged, with great loss of life. Toledo will be connected by an electric railway andtheprojoctris already well under way. The right-of-way *.t Toledo has been secured into the heart nftheeity and passengers will be. carried betVseeh the two ajtics for $1.53. The present fire Is $2.60. The Lewiston reservoir, near tTrbana, 0., broke arid, turned an., immense flood of mte upon the snrronnding country, Wednesday. Twelve thousand acres were submerged. The damage in Logan county alone is estimated at $50,000. No loss of life was reported. James Collins, a horse-thief, was lynched at Sherman, Ky., Wednesday night, by a mob of farmers. Ho was arrested at Decatur. 111., arid brought back, when the mob boarded the train and took him from the officers. Some of the mob were recognized and will bo prosecuted for murder. Reports from the West and Northwest received by the Agricultural Bureau at Washington are very unfavorable for wheat and corn. Excessive rains have prevailed over the entire hard wheat region during the past week, and the rainfall in the central Mississippi and Ohio valleys has been unusually heavy and has Interfered materially with all kinds of farm work. A. W. Washburn, of Shepton, Pa., a well-to-do merchant;' mysteriously disappeared last Saturday night. He left a notice on Ills store door,in his own handwriting, offering a reward of SSOO for his oyrtt “apprehension, dead or alive.” An envelope in his safo contained a SSOO check payable to tho person who should find his body. He was a cripple, and could not walk far without a cane. There is no clue to the mystery. An important ruling affecting the duties on wool ,1s embodied In instructions addressed by acting Secretary Hamlin, es the Treasury Department, to the collector of customs at New York, Tuesday. The collector is directed to refund tocertain * importers the excess of duty exacted at his port on third-class wool, in accordance with the decision of the Circuit Court 6f Appeals at New York. The merchandise consisted of white, grsy and ydJtotfwfifaedwool. *?he wfotewool was assessed *i'th|# ft) of ipd per cant, ad valorem, under the “sorting” clause of the wool schedule, and the court decided fhst the wh Ito Wool was dutiable at the rntoppW.o^ and the gray arid yellow-wools at the rate of 32 pelf pent gd valorem, tiiat one-half tlvo duty exacted will }>e