Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Pittsburg had a big fine, Friday. Lose, 8350,000. Michael Davftt has Been refused a certificate in bankruptcy. have sailed for Europe. -Said that there are 209 pension spie* working about the country.. A negro woman has at Littlg Rock at the age of 120 years. Clarksville, Tenn., confederate monument dedicated, Wednesday. Ninteen indictments were returned in the Roanoke, Va., riot cases. Senator D. B. Hill enthused the Brooklyn Democrats, Monday night. The Georgia Legislature met Thursday. It will remata fn segtion fifty, day*. Two negroes, suspected’ of being hog thieves, were hanged by * mob ad Kdoxport, La R. S. McDonald, of Ft. Wayne, was arrested in New York, Tuesday , on-a charge of forgery. A movement is on foot to consolidate all the sewer pipe manufacturing c-oarerm of the upper Ohio valley. 6 The Rev. Mr. Haddaway, chaplain of the House of Representatives, died at Washington. Thursday.. There is already great suffering in the Cherokee Strip on account of the cold weather and general dsstltution. Jas. D. Hutchinson/ and Lute Zickler, of Waukegan, 111., were married at the top of the Ferris wheel at Jackson Park, Tuesday. From all points erf the northern and eastern States great crowds of unem-.. ployed* workingmen are hastening to San Francisco.

Henry Menzle, white playing “ghost” in the graveyard at Egg Harbor. N. J., •Thursday night, was shot and dangerously injured. Burglars carried off 88,000 worth of silver and precious stones from the Idaho exhibit in tbe Mining Building at Jackson Park, Sundaynight. - 6One hundred thousand dollars is to be deposited with the sub-treasury at St. Louis to bind the purchase of Cherokee bonds by the English syndicate. The Vanderbilts have gained control of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway. Got 40,000 shares, Monday- biggest deal over made in Wall Streep. Mrs. James Trammel killed Mrs. Doc. Trammel, at Orlando, Kas., because_the latter made defamatory remarks about her, While dying Mrs, Doc. gave birth to twins. Tho big Pittsburg fire of Friday was caused by the explosion of a barrel of whisky in the warehouse of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company. Eight persons were seriously injured. The City of New York, outward bound for China and Japan, left San Francisco at" 3:30 p. m., Thursday, and an hour later ran upon the rocks in the Golden Gate under a full head of steam. She will probably be a total loss. All hands escaped. Mrs. L. D. Burt, of Sioux Falls, S. D., recently found buried in tho sand in a street of that place, diamonds and gems which investigation has proved to be worth at leastßloo,ooo. Repeated advertisements for the owner to call and prove property and take possession have failed to reach tho proper person, although frequent attempts have been made by parties to establish a claim to tho “treasure trove.” Tho latest theory as to the matter is that the gems .have been stolen in foreign lands and were buried by the thieves, who now fear to come forward and claim their ill-gotten wealth for fear of arrest. Mrs Burt has deposited tho jewels in a safe deposit vault in Chicago.