Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

rThc Dnko of Yeragua is again in New. York city. A train robbery was attempted at Omaha, Monday. Two men were fatally shot in an affray at Chicago, Thursday night. Arrangements are being made to rebuild Fargo, N. D., as rapidly as possible. The Union Stock Yards Bank, of Sioux City, la., has been forced to assign. Four persons lost their lives in a tenement house fire at New York, Tuesday. The Lemont, 111., canal strikers have returned to work at the contractors’ terms. About sixty feet of the State dam across the Hudson river at Troy, N. Y., gave . way. Mgr. Satolli, the papal delegate, has arranged an extensive trip to the Pacific coast, which will begin soon. 4 Charles Morris, one of the shrewdest diamond thieves in this country, was art rested at Louisville, Ky., Tuesday. The Charles P. Kellogg Cutlery Company, of Chicago, has made a voluntary assignment. Assets about $1,766,000 and liabilities $056,000.”"” Ex-Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, is missing and it is believed that he left the country to avoid prosecution for destroying the records of his office. C. A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis miller, told a Senate committee, inquiring into the financial situation, that Chicago short selling was the ruination of trade in the Northwest. E. B. Ford, a newspaper correspondent

at Dundas,Minn..narrowly escaped lynching. He was taken by White Caps and was already hanging when his brother rescued him, The famous and only genuine Blarney stone, which for centuries occupied a place in the walls of the historic Blarney Castle in Ireland, has arrived at the World’s Fair. The body of Herman Schaffner, the Chicago banker who has been missing since his bank collapsed two weeks ago, was found floating in the lake near that city, Wednesday afternoon. The new battleship Massachusetts was launched at Cramp’s shipyard at Philadelphia, Saturday. The vessel was christened by Miss Herbert, the daughter of the Secretary of the Navy. A stage en route to Fort Lee from New York city, Monday, was blown to pieces by a dynamite cartridge placed in the roadway. Two other unexploded cartridges were found. The driver was badly hurt and will probably die. There were no passengers. The New York clearing house association, Thursday, adopted a resolution to issuo loan certificates which are to bear 3 per cent, interest, in order to relieve the pressure. Institutions that are solvent but short of ready cash may use them for making settlements. The river at New Orleans, Thursday, was four feet above the danger line and still rising, caused by the clogging of the government"jetties. The city is in great danger unless the river succeeds in opening a new channel. Considerable damage has already been done. Princess Eulalie is said to have

actually snubbed Chicago society, all because she discovered that she was to be entertained by Mrs. Potter Palmer, whose husband kept the hotel where she was stopping. The Princess left Chicago, Wednesday, for the East Ex-President Harrison, Mrs. McKee and Baby McKee visited the World’s Pair, Monday. The visit was informal. The x-President and party, however, lunched with the Fair officials and was given a jordial reception by the people who ihane> d to be informed of his presence. 5 Wesley Shaw, at Buchanan, Ga., ordered an old woman, believed by the negroes to be a witch, off his land. She followed him to “pick up his tracks.” He, to prevent being bewitched, attempted to;ut her “witch vein.” Instead he struck aer jugular veim and she is dying, and he is in jail. David Kimmel, his wife Jand son, who est New York in 1881 with a charge hangng over them of having defrauded certain persons oflt of $15,000, went to Vlennar Tuesday they were convicted of defraudng a citizen of Vienna, and each of them was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. One man was killed and five other people badly injured by an accident that occurred on the joe railway, Midway Plaisance, at Chicago, Wednesday night. The sleds on the railway were going at aJilgh rate of speed around a sharp curve when the second sled jumped the track and fell to the ground fifteen feet below. The cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago started at 5:42, Tuesday evening. Three thousand people watched the departure. Gov. Altgoid, of Illinois, has issued a proclamation calling upon* all officers to see that the laws la reference to cruelty to animals are strictly enforced when, the cowboys reach that State. Commander Dickens, who has accompanied the Duke of Veragua in his travels through the United States, left the Duke in New York, Tuesday, and reported to Secretary Gresham that his charge was at an end, and from this time on as long as he remains in the United States, the Duke would travel as a private citizen, and not as a national guest. The Midway Plaisance will not be closed Sundays whether the rest of the Fair Is or Is not shut up. On the contrary, It will hereafter be very wide open. The concessionaries have won the fight with the Exposition authorities, and the latter have promised to give the exhibitors on the oriental thoroughfares such support that their place will become the feature of the Fair. After a search extending over, two months and after six encounters, the notorious train robbers, John Sontag and Chris Evans, Monday night, met four deputy U. JjL Marshals near Visalia, Cal., and as a result of the encounter which followed Sontag was wounded, possibly fatally, and Is now In custody. His companion, Evans, escaped after firing forty shots at his'pursuers. Where he made his stand he left his hat and two empty guns, and the ground was found covered with blood, indicating that he, too, is wounded. Being without guns or ammunition it is thought he will be captured.