Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Snow fell In St Paul for the first iimf this season, Thursday, ' Teri Steamships have been bought ai New York for the Brazilian government and Will be equipped to attack the rebel fleet « A wild steer raff among a crowd of children at St Louis, Wednesday, and tossed Oracle Mann on its horns and later gored officer Tierney. Joseph Hayes, a messenger for Coffin <S Stanton, New York brokers, and four accomplices, have been arrested for forging checks On the firm. Members of the circus firm of Sells Bros, have commenced proceedings against the province of New South Wales to recover 1500,000 damages, John Floyd was hugging Lucy White, his sweetheart, at Proctor, 0., when Harry Smith, a disappointed rival, shot him dead and.wounded the girl. - an increased activity among the Pittsburg mills over last week and it is asserted that fully 15,000 more men are at work In the various factories. Aiderman Geo. B. Swift has been chosen by the Republican caucus for Mayor pro tern of Chicago. A special election to fill the vacancy will be ordered soon. At Dallas, Tex., Charles Hampton fell into a cotton seed crusher at the elevator and was ground to a pulp. One leg was thrown out on the roof of the building. The Columbian museum fund was given another big lift by a check for 150,000 from Mrs. George D. Sturgis. She subscribes the amount unconditionally. - The Patriotic Sons of America, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, will erect a monument to General Lafayette on the spot where he was wounded near Birmingham. A meteorological station, the highest in the world, has been established by Harvard University on the top of a nearly extinct volcano, 19,200 feet above the sea .level, in Peru. Rev. Edward Bagley, pastor of the Christian Church of Washington City, was chosen to succeed the late Samuel Hadaway as Chaplain of the House, Tuesday night. Mr. Bagley is aged twenty-eight and is said to be a very boyish looking young man. Secretary Hoke .Smith has issued his requisition on the Secretary of the Treasury for 112,200,000 in payment of the quarterly pensions due on Nov. 4 at the following agencies: New York, 1850,000; Indianapolis, 12,700 000; Knoxville, 11,400,000; Louisville; 11,100,000; Cincinnati, *1,000,000; Philadelphia, 11,750,000; St. Louis, *3,400,000. Near Sedalia the skeleton of an Indian chief has been unearthed in a fair state of preservation. An old stump of a tree which had grown over the grave indicated that the body had been buried there several hundred years ago. On each side of the head, on what are supposed to be the ears, but which look like old pieces of leather, there were five coils of gold wire.