Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Got. Lewelling and Mrs. Lease may *kfss and make up." - The Globe theater at Boston was burned. Monday night. . Fire originating in the Quayle elevator * at Toledo, Wednesday night, caused a loss of 1500,000. The majority of the Ways and Means Committee have decided to report in favor of an income tax. Andrew Carnegie and wife sailed for Egypt from New York, Thursday. Mr. Carnegie is in bad health. Donald Kennedy, oneof the most notorious opium smugglers in the country, has been arrested at Detroit. Every man in the employ of the Chicago street railway, from the president down, 3,000 in all, have beeu vaccinated. .a During a dance at Harmony Park, la., Town Marshal Weston shot and killed Henry Hoover without any apparent reason. Frank Wilson, a Chicago divinity student, slept sixty hours in a South Side ehurch after a sermon by the Bev. P. E. Wilkinson. W, F, Lee. of Chicago, is badly wanted at Albion on the charge of swindling several citizens with the enlarging photograph racket While working in Blankenship’s sawmill near Vandalia, 111., John the head sawyer, fell across the circular saw and was cut in twain. At Kansas City a special conference of I delegates representing the various branches of the United Mine Workers of America in Missouri and Kansas is in session. It has been decided to have the CorbettMitchell fight on the morning of January 25. Governor Mitchell is q'uoted as siying that it shall not take place in that State. The California Mid-Winter Fair was formally opened, Monday, at San Francisco. The special feature of the day was the unveiling of Sir Francis Drake’s monument, “the prayer-book cross." The Pennsylvania Republican State convention met at Harrisburg. Wednesday. Resolutions denouncing the Wilson bill were passed. Galusha A. Grow was nominated for Congressman-at-large. The National Mary Washington Monument Association has issued an appeal to the Women of the United States to contribute funds necessary to pay for the completed monument. The sum of 515,000 is desired. The Cambria Iron Company is building a new mill at Johnstown which is to cost •1,000,000. The mills at that town are said to be ten months behind their orders. The business is booming and 1.000 of the men are working fifteen hours-a day. The "Palace of Poverty," the K. of L. headquarters at Philadelphia, has been mortgaged for 120,0 )0. It is given out by high officials,that the headquarters of the order will be soon removed to Washington and that the 120,000 will be used to purchase a perfecting press for the “Journal of the Knights of Labor.” A crank with a “commission from the Lord” called at the jail at Chicago. Wednesday, to see Prendergast. He stated that the killing of Mayor Harrison was a direct answer to a prayer that he had made twenty-four hours before the shooting occurred, and consequently Prendergast was innocent and should bo liberated. He gave the name of Names, and was locked up to await examination as to his sanity. The public debt statement issued. Tuesday shows that the net increase of the debt, less cases in the treasury, during the month of December to have been 16,861,662. The interest bearing debt increased •90, the debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity decreased >25,850 and the debt bearing no interest 12,063.361. The reduction in cash balance during the month was 14,824,061. Ex-Secretary Foster will probably be “ unable to settle by paying his creditors 50 cents on the dollar, as he agreed. Offsets have come in which decrease the assets of Foster & Co., which involve the raising 120,603 additional to meet the agreement. The creditors’ committee say no delay will be tolerated and they will proce >d to collect by law all they can. The experts will within a few days complete their investigation of the bank. Prof. William Alexander, for twenty years surveyor-general of Hawaii, was a witness before the Senate committee investigating the Hawaiian affairs, Wednesday. Prof. Alexander denounced Commissioner Blount’s report as being based upon false pretenses and supported by ex-parte evidence. Ii te said that the witness stated that he furnished much valuable information on the Hawaiian situation to Blount but that the latter Suppressed jt. A conference of the leaders of the proposed new National Prohibition party was held at Pittsburg, Monday. Twelve people were present. It was decide! to raise 15,560 to aid in the work of organization. The leaders of the new party figure out that there are 300.003 voters in the Democratic party who are Prohibitionists at heart and there are many more in the Republican party. The Populists, they claim, have .10 .*,00) Prohibitionists in their ranks, and the idea of the new party leaders Is to unite all these under the banner of the new National party. Jackson Park became public property, Jan. t. The turnstiles were taken down and the Columbian guards retln d to the buildings. In the afternoon the crowd of sight-seers and relic hunters grew to a size that compared to a big September day during the Exposition. Midway, even demolished, was the attraction and was stripped of everything portable early in the day. The Japanese villiagc was completely carried off and the Jap. tea house east of the fisheries building met a like fate. Only its bare walls wore left standing. Two men climbed to the top of the McMonnies fountain in their search for relics, but were dragged away by the police. It is estimated that 30,000 people were in the park during the day. The buildings are still closed and under guard. The Ohio Legislature convened at Columbus. Monffay. ' Gov. McKinley, in his message, said: “Your honorable body meets at a time when the State is suffering from prolonged industrial depression, for whiclA unhappily, there appears no immediate prospect of relief. The people will demand that their representatives shall practice economy in public expenditures which necessity enforces upon them In their private expenditures. A short session and but little legislation would be appreciated at a time like this.” Three men were killed, four seriously Injured and a dozen more slightly hurt tn

I a wreck on the Union Pacific railway near Linwood. Kaa,, twenty-seven miles west of Kansas City, Tuesday morning. The wreck was caused by a freight train on the Rock Island railway, which uses the Union Pacific track between Kansas City and Topeka, running into the rear end of a mixed freight and passenger train of the Union Pacific. Both trains were coming to Kansas City and were in motion #hen the accident occurred. They were a few minutes late and the Rock Island train was running fast to make up time. The Union Pacific train was near a water tank west of Linwood and was slowing up when the other train crashed into it.