Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Nashyille Chinese will register in a body, Monday. , The grip is proving very fatal to the Indians around Ashland, Wis. An earthquake shock caused great alarm at Bedford, Pa. A genuine Stradivarius violin has been discovered at Chesterfield. A Polish syndicate will establish a beet farm and sugar factory at Omaha. The Columbian stamps will cease to be issued by the government after Jan. L Ambassador Wayne MacVeagh, now in Florida, will sail for Italy February 1. Slight shocks of earthquake were felt in various parts of Pennsylvania, Monday. A stay of proceedings has been granted at New York in the case of Boss McKane. While insane H. D. Parmenter, of Hays City, Kas., shot his grandson and himself. Two men held up and robbed a faro jurist in Chicago, Wednesday night, of 18,200. It has been discovered that no first award on beer was made at the World’s Fair. Itisclaimed a spook is scaring the life out of the soldiers at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago. A gang of silver counterfeiters was unearthed and captured in Harrison county, Missouri. Senator Teller admits now that Colorado, despite the repeal of the silver bill, is prospering. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a Union Pacific suburban train near Denver. At Yorkville. S. C.,* W. P. Blackburn was murdered for his money by Jeff Crawford, a negro. The town of Laurenceville, 111., was almost entirely destroyed by fire, Thuriday. Loss, 812,000. John P. Hopkins, tho newly elected mayor of Chicago, was inaugurated, Wednesday night. • Mrs. Thomas Ransdall and her three small children perched in their burning home at Bohen, Ky. At Denver, Frank and Johnny Garvlng, aged nine and seven years, were arrested for burglarizing houses. A cave-in at the Carnegie works at Homestead, Saturday, killed one man and seriously injured throe. Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, will endeavor to stop the proposed Corbett-Mitchell prize fight at Jacksonville. So far sixty-one election officers have been arrested for crookedness connected with the Brooklyn election. St Louis merchants are taking steps to form a mutual insurance company because of the advance in rates. Frame Cole, of Centerville, Mich., was sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for assaulting a little girl. Mrs. Wm. Thompson, of St. Joseph, . Mo., failed to get a Christmas present and killed herself with corrosive sublimate. The Colorado State Farmers’ Alliance has adopted resolutions denouncing Secretary Morton and demanding his removal. Every child in the New Brunswick, N. J., public schools brings a potato twice a week to relieve the distress of the unemployed. The negro ravisher, Thomas, who was shot to pieces in the jail at Bainbridge, Ga., failed to die and a mob took him out and hanged him.. Destitute Jews, reported to have been shipped to this country by the Russian Government, will not be allowed to land when they arrive. i » ; Four men held up the cashier of Morgan &, Shrln’s gambling establishment on Quincy street, Chicago, Tu^_Jay morning, and secured 84,000. President Cleveland, Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle and party left Washington, Tuesday, for a duck hunting trip down the Potomac. Martin Costello has been heard from in Sarnia, Canada. He says he will not return to the United States even if he be granted anewtrial. - At Rockville, Mo., Deputy Marshal Pryor shot and fatally wounded a man named Macklin and 8. P. Medskiff, who were resisting arrest. The Chicago union bakers went on a strike, Tuesday. Many of the big shops were compelled to shut down and tire staff of life became scarce. 6 Chairman Frick says the Carnegie mills arc paying tho amalgamated scale of 1892, and that no common laborer is working for less than 12 cents an hour. Donjon, the crank who has been threatening the lives of Senators and other prominent men at Washington, was arrested and locked up, Tuesday. Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, has written another “previous” letter to President Cleveland Instructing him in his duties to his party and the country. Gon. N. P. Banks was found wandering aimlessly about the streets of Boston, unable to give any coherent account of himself. It is said that he is losing his reason. A crank at Chicago was after Phillip D. Armour with a dynamite bomb, Sunday. He also threatened to blow up the 'Armour Institute. In a suit against the National Building and Loan Association of Chicago, charges are made that the officers secured 847,000 by fraud from the order in worthless securities. At Cairo, Ga., Galvin Thomas a negro, was arrested for assaulting Mrs. Bellers, wife of a Baptist preacher. A mob broke into tho guard-house and riddled him with bullets. Mrs. Harriet Randolph White, widow of tho late Senator Albert 8. White, of Indiana. died at Mattoon, 111., Christmas day, and was buried at Lafayette, her old fapmo, Thursday. , By tho death of an aunt in California, Patrick Fitzgerald, formerly of Grand Rapids, Mich, has fallen heir to a fortune estimated at 81,300,000. His present address is unknown. Corbett and Mitchell were arrested at Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, at the Instance of tho Duvall Athletic Club, who proposo In this way to tost the legality of tho proposed fight. Officers Healey and Moran, of Chicago, are locked up, charged with the murder of Samuel Felaon, tho proprietor of a small algar store. Nelson was drunk and resisted arrest and was shot. A Southern Pacific train was robbed between Houston, Tex., and New Orleans, Tuesday. The express messenger was kfllod and the robbers escaped with packages of unknown value. I For tNB the total production of silver in

Colorado was 7,951,450 ounces, an increase of 116,148 ounces over the production of 1892, The amount of gold was 82,404% ounces, an increase of 19,205 ounces. The oil field at Ft. Recovery, 0.. is assuming large proportions. Nearly ten thousand acres of land have been leased by the Standard and other oil companies and a large number of wells will be drilled. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and its branches, comprising the Santa Fe system, has been placed in the hands of three receivers, by order of Judge Caldwell of the United States Circuit Court at Little Rock, Ark. Editor Stead has insulted the “first women” of Chicago by telling them that, by neglecting their great opportunities, they “were more disreputable in the eyes of God and man than the most abandoned woman in the streets.” Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas, has written a'letter to President Cleveland, stating that the Indian Territory is a hot-bed of crime and a refuge for train robbers and murderers, and urges that relief of some kind be furnished by the National Government. Grand Master Sovereign, the new chief of the K. of L., announces that if he can have his way the magnificent brown stone building known as “Powderly’s Folly, or the Palace of Poverty,” in Broad street, Philadelphia, will be sold, and a cheaper headquarters in some small town secured. There will be a row over the matter, as the property can be readily sold for a profit of at least 830,000 over the first cost to the order. The Howard plate glass works at Duquesne. near Pittsburg, resumed in full, Tuesday, giving employment to over 650 men and boys who have been out of work fjr four months. Enough orders have been received to keep the plant in operation several months. Gov. Lewelling has removed Mrs. Lease from the Kansas State Board of Charities. As a result it is said that the People’s party in that State is split wide open. The Governor intimates that Mrs. Lease was a disturbing element and that her removal was necessary in tho interest of harmony. A Chicago crank called on the authorities, Thursday, and asked to be locked up, stating that he was afraid he would set fire to the city. He claims to have a mania for arson, and says he was recently released from, the Michigan City prison after an imprisonment for six years for that crime. An infernal machine addressed to “The President, Executive Mansion, Washington D. C,,” was picked up in an alley at Denver, by a six-year-old boy, Thursday. Investigation proved it to be of the most dangerous character. There is no clue to the identity of the villian who prepared the deadly contrivance. President Cleveland has stated to one of the Indiana Congressional delegation that he can confer no more diplomatic or-'con-sular appointments on Indiana. Once before this statement was made. It proceeded then from Secretary Gresham, but since then at least two Indiana Democrats have received consulships, one of them Luther Short, of Franklin, being sent to Constantinople. There is reason to believe this last statement, coming from President Cleveland himself, will be strictly adhered to. Elizabeth Petty, an old maid miser of Newark, N. J., was murdered for her money. Her body was found, Wednesday, but the date of the crime cannot be definitely ascertained. Her head was crushed in, and from the condition of the house it is supposed she fought desperately. Miss Petty was last seen alive last Saturday night. The amount of booty secured by the assassins cannot be determined, but large sums were found secreted .about the house. The woman never allowed a man in the house, and the tax collectors always nailed her bills to the front door. It is understood that Senator Voorhees will introduce another bank measure as soon as Congress comes back after the recess. The Senator has not only identified himself with such financial questions as silver repeal.cotnagcof soignlorage and the issue of full amount of national bank bonds in currency instead of 90 per cent., but now he anticipates a move for the State banks His plan, it is said, is to repeal tho State bank tax or come near to it. The rumor is also current that he will let the national bank bill, introduced during the extra session, take care of itself. Owing to the wide diversity of opinion among the members of the Senate finance committee as to the kind of tariff bill that ought to be reported, considerable friction has resulted. McPherson, of New Jersey, a Randall Democrat, is working in the interest of a modification of the Wilson schedule, it is said, while Senators Jones, of Arkansas, and Voorhees, of Indiana, fkvor the Wilson bill. The chances of success appear to favor the western members, who believe the work of the Democrats on the ways and means committee should be indorsed.