Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Joss to the lumbermen of Cleveland by the flood is about $200,000. An epidemic of cercbro spinal meningitis Is reported to be raging in' New York city. ■ The rivers and creeks innorthern New York and Maine are causing great damage. The whisky trust has authorized an issue of $8,060,000 in bonds for the distrfbutfon scheme. ■ ■ ■'j James E. Murdock, the colebratad elo" cutionist and actor, died at Cincinnati, Friday, aged eighty-three. Congressman Geary, the author of the Chinese exclusion act. employs a large force of celestials on his ranch in California. The Hudsoh Bay company has secured the contracts for supply ing bacon for the Indians in Manitoba and the northwest territories. BjHhe explosion of the glucose works, thecause of which is unknown, at Geneva, .111., Wednesday afternoon, seven men were killed. A secret teetotaler order the Anti-sa-loon Army has been organized at Clinton, Mo. It is proposed to make it national in character. President Greenhut has announced that on June 1, owing to overproduction, all of the thirteen big distilleries at Peoria, 111., will be shut down. The Whisky Trust has decided to establish agencies of its own in several States and as far as possible eliminate the wholesale dealer from its transactions. By the election of a Senator at North Smithfield the Rhode Island Republicans have a majority in the State Legislature, thus enabling them to elect Republican - State officers. 4The Cormack-Collier duel at Memphis is off, friends of the bloodthirsty editors having patched up a settlement by which both promise not to make faces at each other hereafter. Robert T. Lincoln, ex-minister of the United States to the court of St. James, arrived at New York city, Saturday, by the American liner, New York. He will, resume the practice of law at Chicago. The Russian Admiralty is preparing to send lo the United States during the next ten days three of Russia’s finest battleships. Their names are the Admiral Nachimoff, Nicolia I. and the Pamyat Azova. Jno. L. Sullivan, enrou te from Biddeford, Me., to Concord, N. 11., Tuesday, made a brutal attack upon a one-armed lawyer who endeavored to speak to a friend in the seat with Sulliyan. At Concord Sullivan was arrested and lodged in jail. Rear Admiral Gherardi is going to the Brooklyn navy yard. He will take command and relieve Commodore Erben, who will bo sent to a European station. The navy yard at this port has long been the Rear Admiral’s choice of shore command; The body of Palllster, the escaped murderer, was found in the Hudson, at Sing Sing. N. Y., Tuesday, and fully identified, although in a bad state of preservation. A bullet hole was found under the left eye. The supposition is that Rohle, whose body was found last week at the same place, shot Palllster, and then committed suicide George H. Abbott alias Frauk Almy, was hanged at Concord, N. H., Tuesday, for the murder of Christie Warden, at Hanover, July 17.1891. Miss Warden was his sweetheart, and the murder was one of the most brutal on record. Almy’s career of crime was remarkable and was proven by testimony elicited at his trial to have begun his transgressions when a small boy. Fifty printers have been “furloughed” from the night job department of* the Government Printing Office. There is nothing for them to do, and they are laid off without pay. Practically, this is a discharge, but it is called a furlough so as to save to the men their right to the thirty days leave provided for by law. An absolute discharge would cut them out of this benefit. A convention of dress reformers was In session at Chicago, Tuesday. Mrs. May Wright Bewail, of Indianapolis, appeared, on the platform in a dark blue suit that failed to reach the floor by eighteen inches. Mrs. Rachel Foster stood on a table and exhibited a divided skirt. Mrs. Henrietta Russell affected a classic Greek costume. Addresses on the subject were delivered by Mrs. Lucy Stone and other noted speakers. At Cleveland, 0., Wednesday, a terrible storm prevailed on the lake. A boat containing two men became disabled by the breaking of an oar and was swept. Out into ’me lake. Seven men manned a life boat and went to their rescue, but an oar broke for them also and the craft was at the mercy of the waves and was Overturned. Three of the life-saving crew succeeded in clinging to the overturned boat and wire rescued in an exhausted condition. Four were lost, besides the two whom they had attempted to rescue. Fourteen lives in all are known to have been lost as a result of the storm at or near Cleveland. Other parts of Ohio were flooded and great damage to property resulted. Charles H.. Price, a seven-year convict, sent from Detroit to Jackson, Mich., September 20, 1890, for forgery, made the cleverest escape from the prison within the history of the institution. Price was engaged in packing snacks in boxes to ship to Australia. He left out half of one lot, made a false top for the box, which he fastened In by means of wooden buttons On .ho inside, and had himself carted to the platform outside the prison. When the coast was clear he opened the box and sscaped. He had made two other attempts and was caught in the act. Price s wanted at Cincinnati for a diamond robbery, also in St. Louis, Mo. His real name Is Tiller, and ho resides at Louisville. Ky. The news from the overflowed districts In Arkansas and Louisiana is of the most discouraging character. Dispatches from joints on the west side of the river below Memphis report a distressing condition of affairs. The water which has been flowing around the head of the levee system above Osceola, Arg., has inundated the st. Francis basin, the farmers being comlielled to abandon all hope of raising a Dotton crop. Almost every foot of land n Chicot county, Arkansas, two hundred nlles below Memphis, has been flooded Bthe water from the Lakeport, Brooks Ills and Grand Lake crevasses. No effort will be made to raise crops in that lection this season. The New York Sun’s Washington correspondent of the 17th says: That new

T / rulings are contemplated, preliminary tc a complete reorganization of the workingforce of th& departments, the treasury especially, seems more than probable. This, it is believed, is one reason why so few departmental changes have been made. Those that ha ve been made are on a Her consistent with the new rules that are said to be preparing. Mr. Cleveland, it is reported, contemplates a new extension of the civil service idea, little less than the complete wiping out of the present system and the substitution of some main features of the English system.