Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Minister Blount has returned, from Hawaii. New York Populists have nominated a State ticket Three cases of yellow fever developed at Philadelphia, Thursday. . Mrs. Sarah Middleton, of Georgia, died from the effects of a katydid’s sting. A cyclone destroyed the farm house of W. Jackson, near Winona, Kan, and killed two children. The California mid-winter fair managers have accepted plans for four buildings, to cost $360,003. The Standard Wagon Works, of Cincinnati, assigned, Thursday. Assets, <1,200,000; liabilities, 1750,000 George Bradley, an old citizen of Pittsfield, Mass., while insane, committed suicide by disemboweling himself. Antonio Carlove, aged fifty, died from cholera on Swinburne Island, New Yorn, Sunday night. The autopsy confirmed * the diagnosis. - - Wheat and all staples are lower on the Chicago market. Delayed action on the ♦ part of Congress is given as a reason by leading operators. At a meeting of unemployed men in New York resolutions were adopted calling upon workingmen to pay no rent until conditions are improved. Wm. J. Jamison, a negro doctor, who atrociously murdered Chas. Aron last April, near Quincy, 111., was hanged for the crime in that city, Friday. A special train left Chicago on. the 14th with 1,600 Swedes ‘on board, en route to their fatherland. They intend coming back to America when times get better. Impeachment of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle is demanded by the organ of the Kansas Populists for failure to purchase the prescribed quantity of silver in July. The Oliver Iron and Steel Works, of Pittsburg, went into a receiver's hands, Thursday. Capital stock, <1,600.003; indebtedness, 1700,000; bonded indebtedness, 1585.000. Jacob Kaiser, residing near St. Charles, Mo., while playihg near a plank fence, accidentally pulled a harrow over on him. He was instantly killed, a sharp tooth having penetrated his skull. H. C. Frick, of the Carnegie Steel Company, has had his salary of <50,000 a year ,as President ciit down <15,000 on account of the general reduction of 30 per cant, affecting all salaries of <SOO and upwards - per month. West Point cadets to the number of 280 arrived at Jackson Park, Friday, and will go into camp for ten days on the World’s Fair grounds near the. government building. They met with an enthusiastic reception. Pontifical mass was celebrated by Mgr Satolli at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, Tuesday morning. The building was jammed and the immense crowd forgot all propriety and broke down the pew doors in order to get seats. Chas. Walton, a negro, who murdered Sam Keith, was hung by a mob near Morgapfield, Ky„ Thursday. Keith was a boy but thirteen years old, and was deliberately murdered by Walton for the sake of <4. which the lad had made by selling watermelons. . The ehair rollers at the World’s Fair, excepting fifteen negroes, went on a strike. Tuesday, for an increase in wages from ’sc a day and. 10 per cent, of the rbceipts to <l,lO per day. The officials did not grant the demand, but express confidence that a satisfactory sttlement can be arrived at. Alleged rain makers at Chenoa, 111,, had a contract with a canning company to produce rain. The rain arrived, and the men claimed the <7OO which they were to receive for their services. The canning company paid the bill without grumbling. A barbaric exhibition was given by four Quackahi Indians on the float in the Grand Basin. Thursday at the World's Fair. The horrible ceremony was known as the torture dance. Thongs were passed under strips of flesh cut in In their backs, by which they were driven about like horses. The total gate receipts of the World's Fair to Aug. 7 were <3.457,057.51; receipts from concessions, <1,178,546.08. The directors are now encouraged to hope that there will be a margin for stock dividends, after clearing up other expenses and liabilities. The attendance is increasing rapidly every day/ 4 A terrible accident occurred at a trestle on the county line east of Milton, Va., Wednesday morning. Two passenger coaches and a sleeper were precipitated , sixty seet, killing seven persons outright and injuring a number of others. The loss to the railroad will bo very heavy. Matchwood and Bruce Crossing, two small towns on the Duluth. South Shore and Atlantic railway, were destroyed byfire, Monday. The flames crept from the burning forests, and everything was so dry that the towns were in flames before the people realized their danger, and they barely escaped with their lives. The Chicago postal employes were paid their salaries, Wednesday, In gold, the amount ' being <50.000. Sub-Treaaurer Tanner stated that the Government, hereafter. intended to pay regularly in gold, . the change of policy being made under instructions from Secretary Carlisle, and being due to the surplus of the yellow metal In the Treasury. Governor lien Tillman, of South Carolina, is seeking governmental authority to use the sobriquet of the State, "Palmetto,” as a trade mark for his dispensary liquors. The patent office has refused to patent the label, as the statute provides only for the registration of trademarks owned by persons, firms or corporations and the officers decide that a State of the American Union is neither a person, a firm nor a corporation. Three thousand unemployed men in Chicago held a mass meeting on the lake front, and decided to march, some day next w< «‘k, to the City Hall, carrying the banners of their various unions, and demand work of the city. Resolutions were passed demanding action of Congress in fixing a true standard of values: demanding that the government employ Idle mfn on the roadways; that the hours of toll be reduced, and warning laboring men throughout the country of the situation in Chicago. • A conference of delegates from the various trades unions of Now York was held In that city, Sunday afternoon, to devise means to assist the unemployed. President Gompers made a speech hi which

be laid the trouble on the wealthy classes, and also said the evil was largely due to ov- < r-production caused by the introductionof machinery and the use of steam and electricity in manufacturing. He advocated a general system of public improvements as a means of furnishing work to the unemployed. A crisis had been reached, and relief could not be delayed. “It is a fine commentary on our civilization,” said he, “when criminals are sent to prison and work found for them, while honest men walk the treats in idleness.” FOREIGN. Fifty miners were killed in a German mine. There are “rumors of war” between France and Italy. Three cases of cholera have developed at Berlin, The religious riots were resumed in Bombay, Wednesday. A large number were killed and wounded. Several mosques were robbed and burned. All the public buildings are now guarded by troops. The authorities hope to be able to quell the disturbance without further bloodshed.