Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

. Esther is the name chosen for Bab; Ruth’s sister. —Wednoaday was Michigan day at the World’s Fair. Sunday was the hottest day of the year in Minnesota and the Dakotas..;,. . The thermometer indicated ICO deg. at several places in North Dakota, Monday. The Portuguese authorities have declared New York to be a cholera-infected port. Mrs. Jane Wright, an employment agent of Kansas City, Mo , was found murdered in her office. The administration will likely adopt the Everett bill suspending operations of the Geary law for one year. Statistics show that the Homestead strikers lost $1,2C0,C01 in wages and the strike cost the State f 410.256, . It is now known that Assassin Guiteau’s remains lie beneath the floor of the |aunin the jaji at Washington. v*nolesaie counterfeiting of silver dollars has been discovered In Georgia, and twenty-three men are under arrest fbf (t, Under a new law Connecticut women will vote at the October election on school flatters. The registration Is now going on throughout the State.

The long drought that has parched Kentucky and ruined the late crops, was broken, Sunday night, by rains that extended throughout the State. A mob hung Ben Jackson, a negro, at Quincy, Miss,, Thursday night. Jackson threw poison into a well, causing the death of two children of Thomas Woodruff. Wednesday was a remarkably hot day throughout the west. At Wichita the thermometer registered 104 degrees. At San Antonio, Tex., it was the hottest day of the year. Rear Admiral A. W. Weaver, of the navy, will soon be retired and Commodore George Brown, now in command of the Norfolk navy yard, will be promoted to the vacancy. Theatrical Manager George Paige has paid $55 and mad 2 a public apology as the price of a “gag” perpetrated by his comedian at the expense of a Ft. Dodge (la) society man. William Saunders, of Beloit, Ohio, has invented a steam road carriage and is now on his way to Chicago in it, traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour over country roads. Rattlesnake Ralston, Chicago snakecharmer, bet that he could handle a lot of vicious rattlers fresh from Florida, but one had escaped from the box, and bit him unawares. He will die. The Associated Press dispatches were burdened, Monday, with descriptions of the outfit for Mrs. Cleveland’s new baby, which, it was stated, was all made by the mistress of the White House. M. V. Gannon, President of the Irish National League of America, denies that he is a party to the manifesto in regard to the home rule bill purporting to have been issued by the executive committee of the League, Frederick L. Ames, of Boston, vicepresident of the Old Colony railroad and a millionaire, was found deftd in a stateroom of the steamer Pilgrim, shortly after its arrival at the pier at New York, Wednesday.

City Treasurer Adolph Krug, of Seattle, Wash., has disappeared, and a shortage »f f2i.9,000 in his accounts has been dislovered. Krug was esteemed as an Ironist man, and had amassed quite a fortune by close business methods. On account of carelessness of a U ickel Plate operator, Sunday morning, two freight trains collided near Leipsic, 0., lust across the State line. Jack Davidson, one of the engineers, was killed and six other men of the train crews were seriously injured. Frauds of a startling character have been discovered by Pension Examiners Cutler and Sidman in Baltimore, The government has been robbed for years by forgeries and other crimes, which came to tight through the present system of delivering pensions checks at the postoffice. Over fifty Cherokeo boomers standing in ' line at the registration booths on the borders of the strip at different points were overcome by heat, Wednesday. Six died and other deaths may result. The thermometer stood 100 degrees in the shade, and hot wind filled with dust made tne discomfort unendurable. The Clan McKinley held a rcunionoat Jackson Park, Wednesday. Gov. Lewel-ling,-of Kansas, welcomed the representatives to the Kansas building, and Gov. McKinley held a reception and shook hands jvith more than 1,000 people claiming the name of McKinloy. Dr. L. D. McKinley, of Topeka, gave a history of the Clan McKinley. The Irish National League of America have issued a manifesto in opposition to Gladstone and the home rule bill. They contend that the bill is practically worthless, and that the influence of Mr. Gladstone has been pernicious and of .great injury to > the Irish cause. The manifesto closes with an appeal to the Irish race the world over to unite in one gigantic movement for the liberation of Ireland. A dispatch coming from Pittsburg, Pa., states that a pension attorney, whose name will not be at present divulged by the authorities, has been writing letters to Suspended pensioners advising them to kill President Cleveland, Secretary- Smith and Commissioner Lochrcn. Pension Agent Skinner, of Pittsburg, has taken the matter up and the attorney will probably bo arrested. lie is a pensioner himself and is said to be perfectly sane. He does not reside at Pittsburg.