Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A Topeka man claims to have discovered a liquid which will turn negroes into white men. ’ At Brunswick. Ga., twenty-two new cases of yellow fever were reported, Tuesday, and fifteen deaths. ■ John Woods, a fanner near Tipton, Nev., was butted by a pet ram and received injuries from which he died. Ex-Speaker Reed Is participating in the Ohio campaign. He made his first speech in support of McKinley at Cincinnati Wednesday night. At Faribault, Minn., fire broke out in the Shattuck school buildings and before it could be extinguished property worth 150,000 was An English-American syndicate is reported to have purchased the territory of Lower California from Mexico and will annex it to the United States. Cassius Beldin, who came into sudden prominence by shooting into the Chicago Board of Trade pit and injuring three people, was adjudged insane. Tom Ponasko, a Creek Indian, was executed for murder by shooting. He sat calmly on his coffin and looked into the barrels of the two guns aimed at him. Gen. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, was elected commander-in-chief of the Loyal Legion, at Chicago, Wednesday, to succeed ex-Presldent Hayes, deceased. Miss Mary Nichols was instantly killed at Oakland, 111., by a runaway horse. She was crossing the street when the horse struck her, one shaft passing through her head.

A man who says he is James Davis, of Dublin, attempted to hold up a train at Little Falls, Minn., Tuesday morning. He was shot by the depot policeman and will probably die. On Monday the treasurer of the World’s Fair signed a check for $1,565,310, with the proceeds of which the last dollar of the outstanding indebtedness of the Fair was paid off. This includes the bonded and Boating debt, and leaves the future earnings of the Fair above current expenses to go to the stockholders. Miss Clara Barton, president of she National Red Cross Society, has issued a call lor help for the 20,000 persons made destitute along the southeast Atlantic coast by the recent hurricane. This does not intlude the victims of the great Gulf coast itorm, still more recent and severe. Miss Barton says these people must be fed for x period of eight months or they will itarve. The Bridgeport, Conn., suicide club, of which much has been said, has been i«roved to bo a bona fide organization. One member is compelled by oath to kill himself each year, the victims being selected by a throw of dice. Every rictim so far selected has made way with Himself inside of the year, which is the Hme given to the unlucky man to prepare for death. The last man to keep his oath was Otto Kemp, who hanged himself at Cincinnati a short time ago.