Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

There were thirty-four new eases o! yellow fever at Brunswick, Ga., Monday, -f— The Rev. Francis B. Bateman, Baptist minister of New York, has gone over tc the Episcopalians. _.. A section of land a quarter of a mile ir diameter ha&sunk and formed a lake neai Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee. Allentown, Pa., was damaged 9300,(XX by fire Bunday; Detroit, Mich., 9200,000 and King City, Mo., 950,000. Judge Martin, at New York, Friday, sentenced Emma Goldman,, the anarchist, to one year in the penitentiary.. It is believed that the awful wreck on the Michigan Central road at Jackson. Mich., Friday, was caused by a tramp tampering with the air brake. The grand jury at Decatur, DI., failed to indict the lynchers of the negro Bush., but made a report declaring that the sentiment of the community opposed an indictment. Col. W. H. H. Taylor died at St. Paul, Minn., Monday. He was the son-in-law of ex-President W. H. Harrison, and his prive Secretary during Gen. Harrison’s occupancy of the Presidency. The Edgar Thompson works of the Carnegie company at Braddock, Pa., resumed in all departments after an idleness ol several months. The resumption gives employment to about 2,500 men. S. P Beeler, age 57 years, and the father of nineteen children and four times married, committed suicide,'Sunday afternoon', at his home in North Topeka, Kan., with the aid of a double-barreled shotgun. A sensational story is published that Dr. Graves, the alleged poisoner, who was supposed to have committed suicide in the Denver jail a short tilde ago, did not do so, but that the report was a part of a scheme to help Dr. Graves escape. Dr. Graves is reported to be alive and well in a foreign country. foreiqn. Gounod, the musical composer, died at Paris, Wednesday. The Urano, one of the Brazilian rebel vessels, was sunk while trying to pass one of the forts at Rio Janeiro. Many lives were lost.