Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Briggs heresy trial is said to have cost 850, CG0. Mrs. James G. Blaine, and Miss Blaine, sailed fo~ Enropc, Saturday. Tbe Spanish Princess Eulalia visited the World’s Fair, Thursday. A hot wave reached New Yorki Monday. Thermometer stood at 91 degrees. Forty four naval cadets graduated from the naval academy at Annapolis, Friday. Colored men refused to take the place of , white Strikers on the Kansas City & Gulf railroad. The Sandusky, 0., Savings Bank closed its doors Monday. Assets, 3300,000; liabilities, 5205,000. Two men were killed and two others mortally wounded at a primary election in Pincvlllc. Kv. Rev. R. S. Decncr, a popular Mr B. pastor of Batesville, Ark., was arrested, Bat—urday, for forgery. : A mortgage of 53,003,000 has been placed on the property of the Whisky Trust to secure an issue of bonds. Hell is situated just thirty feet below Chicago, according to the Rev. Dr. J. B. Brady, of Newark, N. J, Saturday the amount of gold in the tin i ted States Trea niry had dropped down to low water mark, 580.039,217. Five fesidenw o! northern Vermont have been arrested for smuggling Chinese into the United States from Canada. The Grant Locomotive Works at Cicero, 111., made a voluntary assignment, Tuesday. Cause, lack of working capital. Cash wheat dropped to €3 cents at Chicago, Thursday. The financial situation in that city, however, is surtly Improving. The New York Anti-Cruelty Society will prevent the proposed Spanish bull fight to be held in Madison Square Garden. Mrs. Frank Leslie has sued for a divorce from her husband, ’‘Willie” Wilde. She avers drunkenness and willful extravagance on his —. The addresses of Cardinal Gibbons in favor of the restoration of temporal power of the Pope have drawn a message of thanks from the Vatican. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of ;he Now York Elerald, was seriously inured at Paris, Thursday, by a fall from a :oach. His condition Is critical. Fargo, N. D., was visited by a most destructive conflagration, Wednesday afternoon. Half of the city was destroyed. The loss is estimated at 83,000,000. In the Federal court at Chicago, Thursday, an injunction againsf opening the World’s Fair on Sunday was granted, Judge Woods reading the decision. Georgo Walters, a rich Charleston. 111., farmer, and his daughter were caught on w trestle, Saturday, and jumped. The daughter was killed and the father dangerously hurt Before leaving "the Savoy Hotel, New York, the Princess Eulalia gave the manager of the hotel 8500 to be distributed among the servants who had been in attendance upon her. 2 Three chiefsof departments, eight clerks and five carriers of the Kansas City postoffice were booked Saturday ior decapitation. Been shooting craps, defrauding money lenders, etc. The run on the Chicago banks was met Confidence is in a measure restored, depositors getting their money as fast as it could be paid to them, the officials in some cases keeping the hanks open all night In order to satisfy the clamorous demands of uneasy creditors. Two masked men held «p a train at Nodaway, lowa, Thursday night. They ietached the baggage and mail cars, and compelled the engineer to spoil them down the track. Hereihey entered the baggage car, and on ljciug informed that It was only a passenger train, exclaimed: “We are after the Denver express,” and hurriedly disappeared.