Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Buffalo Bill wants to be Governor of Nebraska. The Federation of Labor adjourned at Chicago sine die to meet next year at 1 Denver. ■ ■ Creditors of the Hicks Stock Car Company of St, Louis have applied for a receiver for it. Suits aggregating 11,000,030 have been brought against Carnegie by the men who were poisoned at Homestead. James Dowling, late cashier of the New Orleans mint, was Indicted for embezzling •25,000 by the Federal grand jury. Four men held up the cashier of Morgan * Shrin’s gambling establishment on Quincy street, Chicago, Tuesday morning, and secured 14,000. Sir Philip Currie, who was appointed permanent Under Secreratary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1889. has been appointed British embassador to Constantinople. -G. A. Crawford and O. P. Post have •old the Litrte Annie Gold Mining Company’s property at Summitville, Colo., to the Consolidated Gold Mining Company, for 12,000,0; 0. A Southern Pacific train was robbed between Houston, Tex., and New Orleans, Tuesday. The express messenger was killed and the robbers escaped with packages of unknown value. The tramps locked up in the Mt. Holly, N. J., jail are making threats of boycotting the place. They went to the jailer in a body aud said that if the bill of fare was not improved very, soon they would quit. Upon the order of Secretary Smith, James U. Hildebrand, of Huntington, Ind., and Ti A. Dunlap, of Nashville, Tenn., attorneys, were debarred from practicing before the Interior Department. The charges were unprofessional conduct. It is rumored that Attorney-General Olney will retire from the Cabinet, and his successor will probably be Wilson S. Bissell, now Postmaster-General. Mr. Bisscll will be sncceeded by Josiah Quincy or Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts. The Hawaiian legation has been furnished by the State Department with official copies of the President’s message and all correspondence transmitted to Congress on the Hawaiian question. This indicates that diplomatic relations are still unsovered. The Hawaiian message and correspondence went to Hawaii on the steamer which left San Francisco, Tuesday. The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury was transmitted to Congress Wednesday. The Secretary recommends an issue of bonds, and thinks •200,000,0 0 three per cents could be floatod, bit if a large issue of bonds is deomed undesirable he asks permission to borrow small amounts at his discretion. The Secretary Is of opinion that It will be necessary to provide for •50,000,<X)0 additional revenue for the fiscal year 1895. and after careful consideration hap concluded that “it can be most conveniently and justly raised by increasing the tax on distilled spirits ten per gallon, and by additional taxes ton cigars and cigarettes, and the imposition of new taxes on playing cards, cosmetics and porfumerlos, legacies and successions, and incomes derived from investments in stocks and bonds of corporations and joint companies.’’ He recommends these changes, and it is probable that most if not all of them will be adopted.