Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Vice-President Stevenson visited Memphis, Wednesday, and was given a formal reception. ? Dynamiter Gilbert, recently discharged from an English prison, has arrived at New York. £-'V Ambassador and Mrs. Bayard were received by Queen Victoria, at Windsor ensile, ThtirsdSy. • Five men were killed by a gas explosion in a coal mine at Nr.ticoke, near Wilkesborro, Pa., Friday. The block and bituminous mine operators propose to resist the law which pro-' vkles for weekly pay of wages. Rev. Father McGlynn has returned to this country from Rome. He visited the Pope and was graciously received. The law providing for selling vagrants into slavery in Missouri has been .declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of that State. “Boundless” won the American Derby at* Chicago, Saturday, hhd with It the *50,000 purse, before 75,000 people. No records were broken. The attendance at the World's Fair Sunday, was not large. Rev. Dr. Thomas preached to an audience of 5.000 people in Festival Halt in the afternoou. ' John Kelly was stabbed to death with a pUchforK at San Francisco. He was llterpunched full of holes. Jockey Richard Wars is charged with the crime. Gov. McKinley was tendered an informal reception at the Ohio State Building on the World's Fair grounds, Thursday. The attendance on that day was 159,364. A mastodon skull in good preservation has been added to the Borden Institute collection, and after it has been mounted Prof. Borden will forward it to the World’s Fair. The steamer City of Topeka arrived at San Francisco from Alaska, Saturday, bringing news of violent outbreak of the long extinct volcanoes Mts. Makushin and Progroflimia. 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. t i An orderly crowd witnessed the unveiling of a memorial monument in Waldheim -cemetery, Chicago, Sunday, to the hanged anarchists, Parsons, Spies and their associates. Several speeches Were made. The fight for the removal of the State Capital of California from Sacramento to San Jose, has ended in favor of the former city, the act for its removal having been declared void. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Senator Stanford’s property Is now estimated atonly *35,000,000. There is an assured annual Income from the estate of *3,000,000. The bulk of the property will go, it is believed,' to the Leland Stanford Junior University, The conncil of administration has decided to keep the World’s Fair open every night. The attendance, Tuesday, was nearly 300,000. It is given out that there will be plenty of benches from this time forward throughout the grounds. At the close of a circus performance at River Falls, Wis., Wednesday night, a terrific thunder storm being in progress, a bolt of lightning struck one of the tent poles • as the people were passing out. More than fifty persons were prostrated.

Four "men and threo boys were stretched dead on the ground, A great many were injured. Mrs. J. T. Ford died at her home, near Richmond, Mo., Monday, from bloodpoisoning, caused by a rat bite ten days ago. She was the mother of the notorious Bob and Charley Ford, who killed Jesse .Tames at St, Joseph, Mo., under a contract with the then Governor (now Con-sul-General to Mexico) Crittenden. A train on the Long Island railroad, upan which were about I,oob persons returning from the Sheepshoad bay races, was derailed, Tuesday evening, in a tunnel a short disnance from Parksvillc, L. I. Nine persons were killed outright, two died soon after being removed to the hospital, and about. 100 wore injured, many so seriously that tljey will not recover. ■ •-. A tooth weighing s?f pounds and measuring Inches in width and 9 inches long was found oh tRe farm of Gottlieb Shultze, near Dallas City, 111. The tooth belongs to a how extjnct race known as the Elcphas Seganteus. It is regarded as a very rare specimen of a mastodon tooth. It is thought thero are otheft valuable relics thereabouts and more of the bones of the mastodon may be found, A search will be made. Capt. Anderson and six of the crew of the Viking ship, while Returning from a reception in their honor at Brooklyn, Saturday night, were arrested by the police on a charge of drunkenness. They were kept in jail all night and were aliqwed to give ball the next morning. The Norwegian captain protests the entire innocence of himself and crew and says he was never drunk in his life. The affair has created a'great stir In New York, as the men are the guests of the <dty and Will be the guests of the United States and of Chicago, where they had expected to go this week.