Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Josiah Quincy, Assistant Secretary of State, has resigned. The price of wheat is again advancing fn the central markets. A heavy frost visited the cranberry region In Wisconsin and the crop is considered a total loss. Marie Prescott, the well-known actress died at New York, Wednesday, from a surgical operation. ST. V. Powderly has addressed an open letter to President Cleveland in advocacy of free silver and postal savings bantcs. Over 390 dead bodies, mostly negroes, have been found on the islands about Beaufort and Port Royal, S. C., since the great storm. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was elghtyfour years old, Tuesday. Owing to the great storm he had but few callers and passed the day quietly. It is estimated that the largest delegation of grand army men that ever left Washington for a .national encampment will go to Indianapolis. A mob of White Caps was routed and several wounded by a man whom it had gone to lynch, near Northfield, Minn. He had a pistol and a musket and used both with good effect.

It has been decided that the two leaders ft the Choctaw outbreak shall beshot and the other condemned men shall have a new hearing. This decision was arrived at by a council at which the United States district attorney was present. The Chicago limited express on the Boston & Albany railroad broke through a small iron bridge near Chester, Mass., Thursday. Four Wagner cars were demolished. At least thirteen persons were killed and twenty received dangerous in juries. In the United States Circuit Court, at New York, Wednesday, Judge Benedict appointed Thomas B. Atkins, of New York, receiver for the Nicaraugua Canal and Construction Company, on the application of Louis Chaple, one of the stockholders. The application for a receiver is acquiesced in by Warner Miller, president, who says that the company has no longer means to meet its obligations. A large and disorderly mob gathered on the lake front at Chicago, Wednesday. A dangerous riot was feared. The toughs threw stones, coupling pins and other missiles at the police officers, but when a Targe force of police charged on the crowd it dispersed. Mayor Harrison has conferred with the Governor and U. S. army officers in order to secure State and national troops in case of an emergency. President Cleveland and family arrived at Washington, Friday morning, at 4:10 and were driven to the White House at once in a drenching rain. The President did not retire, but after breakfast went to his office and took up public business at once. He is in excellent health apparently, all reports or inventions of newspaper correspondents to the contrary, notwithstanding. Controller Eckels, Wednesday, published a list of thirty-four national banks, with a combined capital of >0,030,000, that suspended since Jan. 1,1893, and have been permitted to resume business, examination having proved them to be sound and solvent institutions. Fifty-seven are still in the hands of receivers, sixty-two in the hands of examiners, and one has gone into voluntary liquidation. It is reported that the court-martial at Topeka has found Colonel Hughes “guilty as charged” and sentenced him to thirty days’ Imprisonment and to pay a fine of >2OO. Colonel Hughes was removed from his command by Governor Llewelling for refusing to interfere with his regiment in the legislative squabble last winter. Kansas Republicans are excited by the finding and threateu to batter down any jail in which Colonel Hughes may bo confined.