Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Fire In the navy yard at Norfolk caused a loss of 1250.000. “OM Hutch" will again go into business on the Chicago Board of Trade. An immense volume of natural gas has been secured in an experimental well at Grand Junction, Col. ... : Twenty-five deaths from grip have been reported at Leavenworth, Kas., in the past ten days. The disease is almost epidemic. 1 The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided that option dealing is gambling, and that such transactions, under the law, are absolutely void. Governor Rich, of Michigan, may call a special session of the legislature to consider the matter of relief for the Upper Peninsula miners. A. B. Treadway, badly wanted in several States, will be given a term in the Kansas penitentiary for attempting to rob the Emporia postoffice. Harvey Pate and Frank Stires, the youthful desperadoes who killed Henry Helunck last August, were hanged at Danville, 111., Friday. R. F. Smith, a storekeeper at the little town of Berlin. Ala., was clubbed to death and his store plundered. Bloodhounds are 1n pursuit of Jack Smith, a negro. Lawrence T. Kcal, of Ohio, in an interview, fully indorses the Wilson bill, with the exception of the provisions about sugar, and against a bounty to producers. ' English capitalists have bought Squaw Island in the Niagara river at Buffalo for >1,000,000, and propose to expend >1.500,000 in establishing a vast dock and elevator system. Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman, wholast month celebrated his eightieth birthday, has subscribed $25,000 to the building of an opera house to take the place of the burned Henrietta at Columbus, O. Paul Given has been arrested at Aurora

as a deserter from Ft. McKinney, Wyoming. Several years ago he was deputy under his father, who was postmaster of Aurora, and through his misdeeds he brought ruin and dismissal on his father, and he joined the army to avoid prosecution. Acting Secretary Curtis, of the Treasury Department, has intimated very plainly that the Government would interfere should any attempt be made to give practical effect to the suggestion of Governor Waite, of Colorado, that Colorado make silver a legal tender and provide for its free coinage at a State mint. Zella Nicolaus, an adventuress, has sued George Gould, at New York, for SIO,OOO alleged damages. This woman lias a history that would not look well in print. She is only eighteen years old and was born and reared in Wabash, where she was known as Zella Lytle. Her father and mother still reside at Wabash. Mrs. Nicolaus is famous for her beauty and infamous for her escapades at Chicago and elsewhere. Oliver Tracht, of Galion, 0., was seized with the grip while working at Vidette, in this State and he started homeward. Upon reaching Huntington he became delirious, and without waiting for the train he started along the track of the Chicago & Erie road, and he walked and ran forty miles before succumbing to exhaustion. His family at Galion were notified and he was taken home, only to end his life by blowing out his brains. The United States postoffice authorities have determined to suppress the boud and Investment companies which are operating all over the country. Postoffice Inspector Stewart, of Chicago, received from Washington, Saturday, a list of fifty concerns operating in much the same manner as the Guarantee Investment Company, of Chicago, whose officers were convicted in Judge Grosscup’s court. These companies have been pronounced by the Assistant Attorney-General for the Postoffice Department fraudulent and not entitled to the privileges of theUnlted States mails. The inspectors areinstreuted to notify postmasters not to deliver registered letters or money orders to these concerns, and, if possible, to secure evidence against the companies to prosecute them under the law forbidding lotteries and the act forbidding the use of the mails for swindling purposes.