Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

By an explosion in a laundry at New York, Thursday, nine girls were seriously injured. ■ A delegation of 450 men waited on Chicago’s Mayor in an orderly manner and asked for work. Everything looks favorable to the early resumption of work in all the mills of the Mahoning valley. Indictments were returned against eight-seven professional gamblers at Chi cago, Wednesday. Accordipg to fall returns, the cotton crop of Texas will fall 20 per cent, below that of last year. Silver took a jump of two cents upward on the London market, Tuesday, the quotation being f 0.7634 per ounce. Plans to blow up the Detroit water-* works and then fire the city have been discovered. Arrests will be made. In exchange for three Orloff horses from the czar’s stables, three of Palo Alto’s trotters wifi be shipped to Russia.

Mrs. Ada M.Bittenbender, of Lincoln, has been nominated for the Supreme Bench by the lowa Prohibitionists. Dissatisfied with the action of the Republicanconvention, lowa Prohibitionists may put candidats of their own in the field. Indignant free-silver advocates in Texas, near Texarkana, hanged President Cleveland in effigy, and then riddled the figure with bullets. Armour & Co., of Chicago, Monday, received thessoo,oCO in gold ordered from London two weeks ago. The have ordered $500,000 more. Mrs. Catherine Dildine, of Lakeview, Mich., lays claim to all the ground on which the town of Port Chester, N. Y., Is built,r valued at 130,000,000. The People’s party convention of New York, at Silver Beach, - Saturday, appealed to the farmers of the West for food to feed the starving multitudes in New York city. Thursday was Illinois day at the World’s Fair. Elaborate parades of all nations were conducted. The crowd was the largest that has. ever passed through the gates. A large number of unemployed Poles at Milwaukee, Wednesday, attached a party of laborers at work on a street-car track, and demanded that they stop work. The police dispersed the mob. Edward Brennan, a young man whose home is in New* York city, was swept over Niagara Falls, Sunday. He had been boating in the river above and by some means capsized his craft. The Fourth National Bank of Louisville, Ky., the American National Bank of Pueblo, Col., and the Waupaca County National Bank of Waupaca, Wis., have been authorized to resume business. Over two million dollars’ worth of blooded horses, and cattle to the value of half that amount, were paraded in the big stock pavilion in the presence of ten thousand, people at Jackson Park, Wednesday. The great Havemyer sugar refinery at Williamsburg, N. Y., resumed operations, Monday. Four thousand people are given employment, and the telegram from New York city, “Boil sugar,” was hailed with joy by 20 000 persons. The New York police found it advisable

to break up an anarchist meeting, Wcdnes day night, and plied thcirclubs vigorously and effectually. They cleared the room in two minutes, despite the ravings of the principal speaker who dared them to come in, saying that the anarchists could whip the police easily. Employment was given, Monday, to between 12,000 and 15,000 idle men at and near Pittsburg by the resumption of operations in iron and steel plants. Among the mills resuming were the Black Diamond steel works, Sligo iron works, portions of Jones & Laughlin’s iron and steel plant and the National tube works. Old soldiers at Arkansas City, Kan., will make a test case of their claimed rights under the United States Revised Statutes, and declare their intention of settling on any specified quarter of the Cherokee strip. The statutes say that a soldier may locate his homestead Mid. have six months to tile his declaratory statement. Speaker Crisp has announced his desire that the extra session shall finish necessary legislation and adjourn on or before Oct. 1. He will also use his influence to prevent any discussion of thetariff question during the extra session. The ways and means committee will probably consider tariff matters, but no reform bill will bo reported before the regular meeting of Congress in December. Fuller reports of the great storm on the Atlantic coast, Wednesday night, bring details of great calamities at all points wlthljOOO miles of New York. The rain fall was the heaviest ever recorded by the signal service' The gale reached a velocity of forty miles an hour. The damage to the shipping cannot be estimated. The ravages of the storm on land were very severe. In Central Park, New York, great numbers of the trees were blown over. Many plate glass windows in different parts of the city were blown in. Reports from Brooklyn, New Haven, Long Branch, and all important points on the coast tell of unprecedented damage on sea and land.