Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Fanr inches .. of snow fell at Ishpeming. Mich., on the 24th. By the falling of a wall at Chicago, Tuesday, one man was killed and four seriously Injured. The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bili granting municipal and school suffrage to women. The exports of specie frdm New York, last week, were $4,778,362, of which $4,542,000 were gold and $226,362 silver. The Michigan Legislature has re-en-acted the old law for the election of Presidential electors, on the general.ticket. Fifty-six yearlings from the Runny mode stud.at Paris, Ky., were sold in New York, Wednesday, for $55,450, an average of S9OO. ' The Empire State express on the New York Central lowered its previous record, Saturday, by running one hundred miles an hour. A tornado near Darlington, Wis.,. Monday, wrecked a number of houses and killed one person. Quite a number of people were seriously injured. The three pumping stations that fur nish gas for Chicago have been aban doned, and now the gas flows into that city without artificial pressure. • A Michigan coroner’s jury has broken the record. At Corunna a verdict war returned in the case of William Sullivan, who was lynched by a mob, that he came to his death by suicide. The break in the levees on the ldwer Mississippi is serious. At Atherton, La,, the crevasse is 1,000 feet wide and washing very fast. The water at Helena, Ark., stands at 47.10 inches in gauge, which is two inches below high water. Ex-postmaster Doty, of South Norwalk, Conn., has been found guilty of not paying his clerks as much salary as the Government allows, and was finpd SI,OOO for the offense. Inspectors also found a deficit of 4700 in his stamp account which his bondsmen paid. Russia will send three powerful iron clads to New York harbor as an exhibition to offset the British display at the naval review, at a cost of $500,000. The vessels to be sent are said to be powerful enough to sink the entire Columbian review fleet in a pitched battle. The storm Monday night swept over a large extent of country. At Louisville, thirty houses were blown down. Four men were killed at Cleveland. Great damage was done at Detroit. Other points ' throughout the west suffered in destruction of property of unknown value. The Aldine World’s Fair Hotel, whose agent secured a large number of contracts with prominent persons in Indianapolis and other Indiana towns, exacting a large portion of the rate in advance, will not be built, and is claimed to be a cold-blooded steal, the victims having no recourse on the company that proposed to build the caravansary. The monument erected by the people of Georgia to the honor and memory of the I ate A lexander H. Stevens was formally unveiled at Crawfordsville, Wednesday, with appropriate exercises, and In the presence of a great concourse. The oration was delivered by Hon. Thomas N. Norwood, of Savannah. The monument is a magnificent affair of Georgia granite and Italian marble. Wednesday was the tenth anniversary of theopeningof the Brooklyn suspension bridge. On the lofty summits of the great towers wafe a display of flags and bunting. In the ten years the receipts of the bridge have been about $10,000,000, or just about half the cost. Forty million people have walked across the bridge and 280,000,000 passengers have been carried over by the cable line. The fee of one cent for foot passengers has been abolished and the ear tare reduced one-half. 6 The west-bound passenger train on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe. road, at San Angelo. Tex., was held up and the express car robbed by two bandits, Thursday night, at Coleman, Tex. The engineer and firemen, as they stopped to cross a switch, were covered with six-shooters, and they, with the conductor, brakemen and porter, were instructed to open the door of the car, which was soon rifled, taking everything, including pay-checks for the railroad employes. The passengers were not molested.