Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — THE NEWSOF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWSOF THE WEEK

2 Th® manufacture of thenei army rifle, fthe Krag-Jorgensen, is being pressed vigorously. 4 By an explosion of naphtha in a sweat ‘band factory at Brooklyn, Ttnwadny.four men were killed. ■ The headquarters of the National Republican League have been closed in New York andwfllbe established in Chicago. Ancorganixation of Germans has been formed in Salina, Kan., the sole purpose of which is to fight prohibition and equal suffrage. The first Columbian souvenir coins to be returned to the? United 'States treasury has been sent in'ifor redemption by an Atlanta bank. .A. W. Little, a banker of Kansas City, .Kar., shot and kitted Benjamin Johnson, a rising young lawyer of that place, Wednesday. 1 One hundred tons of hay were shipped to Germany from Galveston, Tex., Tuesday, the first Instance of the kind in the history of that port. Frank Egan, an amateur pugilist, of New York, killed John McDonald, a butcher, in a glove fight at a lumber yard In that city, Monday. Ewan, Mich., a village of 2,0)0 inhabitants, was nearly destroyed by fire, and it is reported that the people lynched the man who started it. The Santa Fe railroad officials have unearthed frauds on the Topeka & Chicago division by which, it is safd, the company has lost 117,000 a month. ►-Joseph Jefferson, the actor, is near death with a cancerous affection of the neck, the result, partially at least, of the careless treatment of a boil. A Presidential boom for Waller Q. Gresham, Secretary of State, is said to he already under way, and it is believed will receive the hearty support ofthe Cleveland Administration. There was a miners’ riot at Weir City. Kan.. Thursday. A pitched battle resulted betweenstriking minersand men taking their places. Several persons were seriously wounded, A man with onlyone leg has ridden a bicycle from San Francisco to New York in sixty-six days, nine hours and forty-five minutes, knocking twenty days off the best record of riders with two legs. The arrest in New Orleans of James M. Dowling, cashier of the ; U. 8. mint there, is the result of an investigation conducted by the Treasury Department following a fire in a vault in the mint discovered on June 26. Governors Markham, of California, Saturday, appointed George C. Perkins as the successor of the late Leland Stanford in the United iStates Senate. Perkins is an ex-Goyernor of the State and was born in Maine in 1829. Eight thousand people will bo thrown out of work by the closing of the Amoskeag mills, in August, as determined upon by the directors at Manchester, N. H. It is the largest cotton mill in the world, with a monthly pay-roll of 1225,000. 3 Five people, driven to fire-escapes from New York tenements on account of the excessive heat, fell from their improvised sleeping places, Monday night. Two were injured internally.and will die; the other three had broken arms or legs. “From California to the World’s Fairor bust” is the sign on a big covered wagon that passed through Topeka, Kan., Tuesday. The driver started from his home at Fresno, Cal., May 1.8, and expects to arrive in Chicago before the last of July. An official inquiry into the cause of the Victoria disaster is being conducted at Valetta, Malta. Lord Guilford, flag lieutenant of the Mediterranean squadron, and son of Admiral Tryon, testified that his father said to him after the collision: all my fault.” The coroner's jury investigating the cold storage fire at Chicago,Tuesday, returned a verdict holding Charles A. McDonald, John B. Skinner, D. H. Burnham and E. W. Murphy guilty of criminal negnigence and requiring that they be held until dis* enarged by due course of law. At the Westinghouse Electric and Man ufacturing Company’s big works, in'Newark, 400 men were temporarily laid off on Monday night. This is about half the force. It is said that the company intends consolidating Its works at Brinton, in the outskirts of Pittsburg, and that soon the Newark plant is to be removed to that place. News was received at the World’s Fair grounds, Monday morning, that the first of the homing pigeons liberated from in front of theGdvemment Building, at 10:10 a. m.. Saturday; reached Ozone Park, Long.lsland, N. Y., at 7.18 Sunday morning, covering the distance of over one thousand mttes in twenty-one hours and eight minutes. A flight of Philadelphia birds took place froth the Fair grounds, Monday morning. A burglar at Hillsboro, 111.. Wednesday night, caught in the house of Mr. Jacob Kaberlck, finding himself getting the worst of the fight that ensued, used a blunt instrument and a knife on Kaberlck and his wife, inflicting dreadful injuries and leaving them helpless. He then escaped without booty, but Kaberlck succeeded in giving the alarm, and the police succeeded In capturing one Fritz Mast, who was identified by Kaberick and wife, and he is now in jail. Dr. Meyer, wno was arrested at Detroit, charged with wholesale poisoning inorder to defraud insurance companies, was arraigned in New York, Thursday. Carl Wimmer and his wife, Mary, were held as accessories to the various crimes charged against Meyer, and although not under arrest, are kept under strict surveillance.' The details of the crimes charged against Meyer are startling and. if proved, will be without precedent in their enormity. Three more banks failed at Denver Wednesday. The Old German National was one of them. The notice posted on the doors of the German read: “This bank closed by order of the board df -directors. Net assets, 11,100,000; liabilities, >310,000." The other banks claim twice the amountassets, necessary to pay their liabilities, yet could not realize on them fast enough to meet the clamorous demands of excited depositors. t The World's Fair was closed Sunday. A sol Italy man aboutnoon offered a ticket at t he 64th street entrance and demanded admission but was refused. Fireworks have been prohibited In the neighborhood of the buildings. Saturday night a bomb was sent up and exploded before attaining a great height, and fell on the Manufactures’ Building, crashing through a sky-

- -i light andsetti ng fire to a curtain. Prompt' work saved the building, but no more risks will be taken with fireworks. s A. Nyack, N. Y., physi<dan reports the death, after seven hours’ existence, of triple* must be classed with the most remarkable ever born. The mothers’ ithme is withheld. The triplets weighed in the aggregate fifteen pounds. They were two boys and a girl. The boys were joined by a ligature almost precisely like that which united the Siamese twins, and were otherwise perfect. The girl was joined to the boys by a band of flesh from the hip of bach. When the death of the girl and one boy had occurred an effort was made to save (he life of the other boy by cutting the ligature, but‘death ensued. James Mullens, of Lake Titus, N. Y’., while in his pasture, Thursday, saw a ferocious bull belonging to a neighbor comJnatowiwOlpi. Mullens 1b years old, but very quick and wiry. He saw that escape by running was impossible, so he dodged the bull, and, springing on the animal’s back, held on firmly for ten minutes, all the time badly for help, The bull made frantic efforts to > throw the old man, but he held fast until , the owner rescued him by shooting the animal. A year ago the bull gored a fanner to depth at Moira. It has been officially decided by the loS al directors of the World’s Fair not to ream to the National Government the fl,939,120 profit derived froih the sale of souvenir coins. No vote has been taken on the question, but a majority of the directors are not in favor of v returning the money, and consider their action of last Friday in voting to rescind the rule providing for opening the gates on Sunday and for the return of the souvenir coin appropriation as all that is necesssary in the matter, as that action was a sufficient expression of their opinion. t> The bulletin of the American Iron.and Steel Association says that the total production of pfg iron for the first half of 1893 was 4,562,918 gross, tapsuabowipg a decrease as compared with the first half of 1892 of 206,765. The production of the second half of the present year, the bulletin says, will undoubtedly be less than that of the second half of last year, so that the total production of 1893 will be much less than the total production of 1892. The total stock of pig iron on the market December 1,1802, was 535,616, as against 579,831 on Juno 1,1893. The Columbian Liberty Bell committee has sent forward from Troy, N. Y„ all of the swords,- guns, chains and filings that it has received that could not be used in the Columbian Liberty Beil, or availed of in the clapper, to Messrs. Deere & Co., plow manufacturers, Moline, 111., who have volunteered to maxe the Columbian Peace Plow without cost to the commltte. The Columbian Liberty Bell committee now desires wood of great historical inter-, est for the wood part of the plow. Persons having control of such wood are requested to send their contributions to the manufacturers at Moline. Small contributions of great historical interest will be inlaid in the wood of the plow.