Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Warren hardware house at Troy, N. Y, was burned, Thursday. Loss, COO,10). ~ The American Federation of Labor met in Chicago, Monday. President Gompsrs presided. Chief Harris, of the Cherokee nation, has withdrawn all opposition to the sale of $6,640 0 0 Cherokee bonds. _ Eight persons were killed by an explosion in the arsenal at Belgrade, due to the careless handling of cartridges. It is reported that Murderer Morlcy’s friends will attempt his rescue from the authorities of Barboursvlllc, Ky. The total value of lowa crops in 1893, exclusive of the products of orchards, gardens and vineyards, was $161,097,033. „ The Arcade block at Buffalo, N. Y.. together with adjoining buildings, was destroyed by fire, Thursday. L055,*750,000. The Mayoralty contest in Chicago to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Carter Harrison is becoming very animated. Prendergast, the assassin who killed Mayor Harrison, was placed on trial at Chicago, Wednesday, a jury having been eeeoredr Mrs. Zella Nicolaus, who sued George Gould for *40,000 damages at New York, has sailed for Naples. She has abandoned the prosecution. Mrs. Priscilla Spqpner celebrated her hundredth birthday at Kent, 0.. Wednesday. She was born in Maine and attended George Washington’s funeral. At Fresno, Cal., Chris Evans, the train robber and outlaw, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and the penalty fixed at imprisonment for life. Mrs. Tyndall, widow of the late Professor Tyndall, who caused his death by accidentally giving him poison, is so prostrated that it is feared She Wiir not recover. The New York board of canvassers met at Albany, Wednesday, and canvassed the vote for State officers at the November election. The majority for Bartlett against Maynard is 101,034. Mayor Swift, of Chicago, was knocked down and badly injured by a swinging door in the city building, Wednesday. Hp was confined to his bed for a day or two and his campaign was interfered with to an embarassing degree, v John Y. MeKane, Richard Newton, nallan Crandall, Jas. Cropsey and Nicholas Johnson were found guilty of contempt of court at Brooklyn, Thursday, and fined *250 each and sentenced to thirty days in the Kings county jail. Two of the threo men who robbed the Illinois Central train on Mayfield bridge, near Cairo. Nov. 11, havo teen arrested and a third is likely to bo caugbt soon. They are William Brown, of Cairo, Breckenridge, of Missouri, and William O’Brien, of O’Brien’s Landing, Mo. Ex-Commissioner Carter, of the Hawaiian provisional govarnment. has written a voluminous open letter to Secretary Gresham reviewing the entire matter. He avers that Gresham snubbed him while he was in Washington, and thinks his position as a commissioner representing a foreign power entitled him to respectful treatment and the full confidence of the Administration. At the Instance of some of his constituents, Representative Bynum has had the duty on black plates, from which tin plate Is manufactured, changed from ad valorem to specific. It is to pay, under the modified bill, nine-tenths of on cent a pound, which, Mr. Bynum says, is as near the ad valorem rate fixed in the original Wilson bill as it was possible to figure it. Herman Zeitung, a midget, of Chiceg ), had himself boxed up in a dry goods box and shipped to Philadelphia by express. The address read: “C. O. D. $64. Philadelphia, Pa.” He arrived in the Quaker ciiy.Dec.il, after two days travel, in good condition. He was arrested for trespass and sent to prisou. Zeitung explains that he roado a bet that he could go round the world in a box, and that this was a trial trip.