Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

There is great scarcity of bank notes and greenbacks at New York. Vice-President Stevenson left Portland, Oregon, for the East op the 31st. - George Labus, a Youngstown, 0., boy, was poisoned to death by a bee-sting. Louisville Women may smoko on the streets, according to the decision of a judge in that city. Nine people were drowned by the sinking of a pleasure yacht on Lake George, Thursday evening. The vessel collided with a sunken pier. Statistics show that seven million per sons hayepaid their way into the World's Fair since it opened. Gen. Wm. Innes, well known in Masonic and G. A. R. circles, died at Grand Rapids, Mich.. WgiSeSpSyT’^^ Donald McNaughton, World's Fair executive commissioner for New York, died at Chicago, Monday night. Ex-Vice-President Morton's flne new barn near Rhiuebeck, N. y„, burned, Wednesday, Loss over ? 100,000, ' Ashland, Wls., is entirely surrounded by forest fire 9 and is in danger of destruction unless heavy rain should fall soon. The extensive shops of thc'New York «fc Erie road at Susquehanna, Pa., arc running but twenty-four hours per week. A Pacific express wagdn was held up in the streets of Wichita. Kansas, on the night of the 31st, and robbed of 17,500. It is claimed by thoso who ought to know, that Holman will be continued at the head of the Appropriation committee. It is believed th® decision of the Behring Sea Tribunal will be adverse to the United States in the most important particulars. Felix Poole, a notorious character, was lynched in Ohio county, Kentucky*, for an ' assault committed oh Miss York, aged thirteen, a month ago. The attendance at the World’s Fair Sunday was only 18,637. The total attendance to and Including July 31 was 6,537,427 paid admissions.

Owing tb a family * quarrel, a funeral procession was stopped by police authorities in Findley, 0., and the.body will be held pending a settlement. Sharpers have secured nearly a million dollars from eastern bankers, on forged grain certificates, operating in the name of the Northern Pacific Elevator Co. Col. Chas. H. Jones, formerly editor of the St. Louis Republic, has assumed supreme control of the New York World; ar the personal crepresentative of Mr. Pulitzer. The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Shipbuilders have given fourteen days’ notice that eight hours is to constitute a day’s work. This means a lockout. -'■ ~ ~ . .. Two negroes, guilty of an assault on a white woman, were lynched at Gaston, J 3. C., Sunday. The punishment motea out was first, whipping until unconscious and until the flesh was bruised and bleeding, and tben hanging them. An old negress, of New York City, has been preparing a lotion to turn colored girls white, which she sells to dusky damsels for $5. The preparation causes the dark skin to fall off and it is temporarily replaced by it white cuticle. Bogus railroad tickets are in circulation at Chicago, St. Louis and other western points. They were printed by Weed, Parsons & Co., at Albany, N. Y. One man has been arrested at St. Louis and the detectives are shadowing his confederates.

Chicago is threatened with another crank. A “Professor” Tyndall started from Denver, Wednesday, and proposes to be buried in the World’s Fair grounds for thirty days, at the end of which time he promises to emerge from his temporary tomb aHtve and well. William Monemacher. a farmer living near Antigo, Wis., murdered his wife and three children on the 31st, and then unsuccessfully attempted to kill himself. Ho confessed to the crime, and gave as the incentive that the crops! wora poor and he found that his family would starve. Judge Stfein, In the Superior Court at Chicago, Wednesday, fined a number of World’s Fair officials for closing the gates on Sunday, July 83, after having obtained an injunction permitting the opening of the Fair on Sundays. The officers were held to be in contempt of court by such proceedings. For the first time since the passage of the Sherman silver law the Secretary last month failed to buy the full quota of 4,500,0t0 ounces of silver. The total purchase for the month, 2,384.000 ounces, leaving p. shortage of 2,116,000 ounces. The amount purchased Monday, was 216,oCO ounces at the counter figure of 1.7030 per ounce. According to the schedule of Foster & Co.-s Fostoria Hank, Charles Foster, exGovernor, ex-Congressman and ex-Secre-tary of the Treasury, who was President of tho bahk. overdrew his account $136,- ( 321.92. Various other officers and attaches also overdrew their accounts for largo sums. The liabilities are placed at 1206.344.95; assets 188.392.60. Pension Commissioner Lockren has written a lengthy letter to the editor of the National Tribune in which he defends his action in many cases that have caused great dissatisfaction. Ho asserts that the board of revision appointed to re-examine cases suspected to be fraudulent is composed of some of the ablest and most experienced men in the bureau. Nono of the pensions in these cases are suspended Until after condemnation by this board. The grand jury Investigating the cold storage fire at Chicago, received /testimony, Thursday, implicating 150 persons in a conspiracy to rob the building. Systematic plunder had been conducted for some time, and the witness testified that the fire was started to cover up the evidences of the enormous steal that could not otherwise be longer concealed. Employes of the Fair and residents along Stony Island avenue are Implicated. The . grand jury have the names.