Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Powderly has resigned as Grand Master Workman K. of L. Joseph Dl<m, the ones celebrated billiard champion, is incurably insane, i The Ways and Means committee will report In favor of an income tax. A farmer near Oakland. HL, is preparing to engage in skunk raising on a large scale. ' v;The cause of Gen. Rusk's death causes speculation among friends The certificate reads “heart failure.” ' The comer stone of the new public library building, to cost 82 0UJ.600, was laid at Chicago, Thursday. Charles L. Colby, New York Iron mine magnate, contributed' SI,OOO to thestarving miners of the Gogebic rrnge. > A drug clerk and the wife of his employer, infatuated with each other, com-r mi tted suicide at Chicago, Friday. Walter Fish dug his stepdaughter’s' grave, near Rochester, N. Y. When the funeral arrived he was found dead at the bottom. ’ The movement to erect a costly monu- ' ment to the memory of Jas. G. Blaine, at Augusta, Me., has proved a failure. Only 1115 has been paid in. The beer and whisky business in Chicago is demoralized. Estimated that 1,209 saloons, or 20 per cent, of the whole number, will ’lose up from necessity. A number of people of East Liverpool, 0.. were run down bv an electric car while crossing a trestle. One lady was killed and eleven persons injured. President Grcenhut,of the whisky trust, says tha* the distilleries of the trust are. being run at fu'l capacity in anticipation of an increase m the tax on whisky. Starving miners at Ironwood. Mich., are reported to be eating dogs. Gqv. Peek, of/ Wisconsin, Wednesday, order'd one hun-l dred barrels of flour to be sent to them) without delay. 1 Mrs. Shields and her three children were cremated in a Are at Oil City, Pa., Tues-| day, which started in Mr. Shields’ rcs-‘ taurant. The flaipcs spread and destroyed} property valued at 190,000. T Mrs. Max Rothschfld. of Chicago, gave| 1100,000 to charitable institutions,Thanksgiving Ddy. Max Rothschild died tn Sep-/ tember leaving an estate of 91.010,000, oB more. Mrs. Rothschild is also wealthy) In her own right. During their whole) married life Mr. and Mrs. Rothschild de-i voted a great deal of time and money to’ unostentatious charity.