Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — THE WNWSOF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE WNWSOF THE WEEK

A whole family by the name of Johnston perished in the storm in Pike county, Missouri. The old Liberty Bell will be kept in a glass case hereafter in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Ex-Secretary Rusk, who for - several weeks has been critically ill, will, it is believed, reedver. Governor Mitchell of j Florida, says the Mitchelt-Corbett prize fight cannot take place in that State. The eptire business portion of Brooklyn, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss, 475,000; small insurance. A judge in Buffalo has decided that it is against public policy to allow a man to trade his wife for cattle. The entire business portion of Brooklyn, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss, 475 OX), with a small insurance. Rockefeller interests and the Minnesota syndicate are said to be planning a pool for the control of iron prices. The State Department has no information of the arrest of Menage, the Minneapolis embezzler, in Guatemala. Two men in a boat were drawn into the rapids below Niagara Falls, Sunday. It is believed they went over the falls. J. N. Brown, by means of fraudulent deeds and abstracts, swindled Macomb, 111., parties out of a lot of fine horses. The W. C. T. U. White Caps who flogged Osceola (Neb.) girls for alleged flexible morals, have been fined 45 and costs. England has ordered that no more of her naval ships enter San Francisco harbor, because so many of her sailors desert there, M. J. Gallery, a Chicago policeman,was arrested on a charge of holding up and robbing a citizen of 44,000 at the point of a revolver* A detective has been detailed from the Washington police to act as a body guard to President Cleveland, and now accompanies him wherever he goes. Herman and Otto Habeck, of Wein, Wis., admit that they killed their drunken father at the instance of their mother. The physicians fear that there will be a complication of kidney troubles in the case of Gen Rusk. His condition is unimproved. Rev. C. M. Bragg, pastor of the Cal vary Methodist church, Baltimore,eloped, Monday, with the organist of his church, leaving a wi'» and five children. The B estern Storage & Warehouse Co.’s building at Kansas City was burned, Saturday night. The loss is 4400,000, which Includes 1,500,000 pounds of binding twine. A “Jack the Slasher” is surreptitiously entering Washington, D. C., homes and perpetrating most villainous vandalism by cutting and slashing rich draperies and furniture. The Lehigh Valley road is completely tied up-by a strike of the Federation of Railway Employes. The strike was inaugurated to enforce a recognition by the company of the association. No cars are moving except the mail. A woman crank called at the White House, Wednesday, and insisted on seeing Mr, Cleveland. She claimed to be a niece of Queen Victoria and said she had important business with the President. She was not permitted to see Mr. Cleveland. Raymond Carew, half back of the Toledo High School football team, was caught in a jam at a game in Adrian, Mich., Saturday. A score of players piled on top of him, and his neck was dislocated. He was brought to his home but died Sunday afternoon. Capt. J. G. Adams. Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R., whose life was despaired of, and who submitted to a dangerous operation at a Chicago hospital, has returned to his home at Lynn, Mass., in better health then at any time since he received his wound in the thigh at Gettysburg. The new commerce-destroyer, Columbia, was sent on a preliminary trial spin over the Government course frptn Cape Ann, Massachusetts, to Cape Porpoise. Maine, Wednesday, with the most gratifying results. Under forced draught she developed a speed of 22.87 knots per hour, and under natural draught, 20.2 knots. George W, Ferris and the Pittsburg Construction Company, which built the Ferris wheel at the World’s Fair, are said to have lost 462,000, having received but 4300.000, while the wheel cost 4362.030. The stockholders, however, have been paid 22 per cent, on their investment. A movement is on foot to induce Pittsburg stockholders to turn over their stock to Mr. Ferris at 10 cents on the dollar in order to save himself and the builders from loss. The treasury's available balance was still further denlcted Thursday to the extent of 4700,000. The loss, however, was entirely in the currency balance, which was reduced over a million, as the net gold reserve increased half a million Thursday. The net balance stands at 497.383,595, of which 485,410,891 is the gold reserve. The receipts of the government for this month are not as heavy as was hoped, and the deficit In the government’s accounts shows already a loss of nearly five million dollars. The receipts have been 414,540 0)0 and the expenditures 419,365,000. This makes the total deficit, so far this fiscal year, 429,000,000, the proportionate loss this month being much greater than for the preceding four months. Sir Julian Paunceforte, British embassador, had a conference with Secretary Gresham, Saturday, presumably upon the regulations for the contrpl of seal fishing under the decisions of the Bering sea commission. The two governments are engaged jointly in preparing an agreement upon this question, and, while the princi pal negotiations are being conducted in London, there are some details to be looked after here. Mr. Gresham is engaged particularly at this time in collecting data for a bill to be presented to Congress for enactment into a law for the guidance and control of our government iu this matter.' The award of the commission is temporarily morally binding upon both governments, but so far as this government is concerned it is necessary that the decision should be given in the shape of a statutory enactment for permanent purposes. This the State Department will ask Congress to supply early in the approaching session, and will probably furnish the necessary suggestions for this legislation in the shape of a bill. The ways and means committee hopes to complete the new tariff bill and give it out to the public about the close of the present week. A fear is expressed by some of the Democratic members that the differences which have recently arisen

among their number over the policy of an Income tax may prolong the final eompletion of the measure until a later date, but every effort will be made to get the bill before the public at the earliest possible moment At the general conference of Democratic members, Tuesday, the discussion was resumed as to the policy of adopting an income tax, and as all the essential features of the bill practically depend on the adoption or rejection'of this policy, the other details of the measure will probably be held in abeyance until the committee has come to a conclusion on an income tax. Representative Cochran, of New York, is opposed to the adoption of an income tax provision, but it appears now that he will stand, alone among the Democratic members unless Chairman Wilson should come to his aid. The position of Mr. Wilson on the subject is still regarded by the income tax men as somewhat indefinite, since he has been reported as being in the anamalous position of favoring it in theory, but doubting its practicability and its expediency as a party measure. As to the important articles to be added to the free list, there is no longer any question they will embrace wool, lumber, iron ore, coal,> salt, cotton bagging, binding twine, rice, and many other commodities of less importance. The present bounty on sugar will be repealed, but it is possible the committee may decide to impose a slight import duty in order to satisfy the sugar cane men of the South and the beet rals-l ers ofthe West. There is little probability, however, of the duty being as high a& that requested by the American turers —one and one-half cent per pound. 1 The highest duty thus far discussed is onq cent per pound, and the opinion of mosty of the committee seems divided between) half a cent a pound and admitting it entirely free of duty. -——