Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

X A railroad will be. built at once from Little Rock to Hot Springe, Ark. Chicago has a smalipox scare and “vaccination bees” have become a fad. Ignatius Donnelly has been again elected President of the Minnesota Farmers Alliance. ' „ There is much spurious coin afloat in St Louis. The material used is block tin and antimony. There was henry frost in southern California, Sunday night, which may seriously injure the orange crop Donald Kennedy, oneof the most notorious opium smugglers m the country, has been arrested at Detroit. Gov Lewelang and other Kansans receiv< d letters threatening to wreak vengeance on PopUi.st leaders. Ex-Commissioner Blount testified before the Senate committee investigating Hawaiian affairs, Thursday. Prominent customs officers at San Francisco are implicated in a - smuggling plot. Three arrests have peen made. One man was killed and five injured as a result of a collision between two trains on a bridge at Clinton, la., Tuesday. During a dance at Harmony Park, la., Town Marsnal Weston shot and killed Henry Hoover without any apparent reason. At Louisville eight suits for damages, aggregating 1170,000, were filed against the Phoenix bridge company on account of the recent lisas >er. Hugh Higgins and Eugene Finch quarreled o er a game of pedro in Alemena, Mich. —Finch is dead, and Higgins is in jail awaiting trial for murder. Joseph Walker, a boy of sixteen, is in jail at Dodge City, Kan., charged with the assassmatton of Thrce pefsons, one a babe, and the serious wounding of another. There is 'intense excitement at Key West, Fla , over the importation from Havana of 2V) Spanish cigarmakers by prominent manufacturers. The citizens are reported to be on the point of open riot.

The National Assoc ' ition of WooFManufacturers met at New York, Wednesday, and passed resolutions denouncing the Wilson bill. Ttey claim that if the bill becomes a law their business will be utterly rulfted. Mrs. John L Sullivan “knocked out” her distinguisned husband with an Indian club, at Buffalo. Saturday night. The pugilist had been on a spree, was very abusive, and his “better half” laid him out in self-defense. A citizen of Ganges. Mich., received through the mail, among his holiday presents, a supposed infernal machine. Fortunately only the fuse flashed when it was opened. The postoffiee inspectors are endeavoring to find the sender. Five men he'd up the Burlington “Eli,” on the Hannibai & St. Joe railway in the suburbs of St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday evening. The amount secured is not definitely known. A reward of f 100 is offered for the capture of the bandits. Albert A. Wilson, of Washington City, has been nominated by the President to succeed Dan M. Ransdell as Marshall of the District of Columbia. Mr. Kansdell will return to his home at Indianapolis as soon as his successor is confirmed. Judge Van Brunt in the Court of Oyer and lerminer, in New York, Tuesday, handed down an order that Edward M. ' Field be aken from the asylum at Buffalo and brought to New York for trial. The indictments are for forgery and grand larceny. The Pennsylvania State Democratic convention met at Harrisburg, Wednesday. A platform was adopted endorsing the President’s policy and arraigning the Republican party for many misdeeds in the past. Janies B. Hancock, of Franklin, was nominated for Congressman-at-large. 8 Theodore F. Baker, for twenty-eight years the paying teller of the Consolidation National Bank, of Philadelphia, confessed, Wednesday, to President James F. Watson, that during the past twenty years he has stolen more than f47,C00. Ho was arrested and held In 115,000 bail for trial in February. Sensational scenes accompanied the meeting of the New Jersey Legislature, Wednesday. The Republicans secured control of the Senate. A forcible entrance to the Senate chamber was made, officials refusing to deliver the keys. Republican guards were planed in charge of the hall. There may be serious trouble, fi The bill providing Statehood for Qklahoma and proposing to take in as part of the proposed State the lands occupied by the five.pivilized tribes of Indians, the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Semlnoles, has startled the Indians. Representatives of these tribes are begging and imploring Congress to save them from annexation to Oklahoma. Representative Quigley, of McCracken county, Kentucky, is after the A. P. A. He introduced a bill in the Kentucky House, Tuesday, prohibiting the organization or continuance \f societies whose object is to discriminate’betweeh Christians on account of their religion. The penalty is a fine of 1500 to 11,000, or imprisonment from six to twelve months, or both fine and jail sentence. Andrew Carnegie, previous to his departure for Egypt, gave to the press a letter, which was published in Monday’s ,New York Tribune, practically Indorsing the Wilson bill. He thinks that a moderate tariff law passed by a Democratic Congress will prove more satisfactory than a high tariff law passed by a Republican Congress, because it is less likely to be attacked and changed. Young De Frances was sentenced to life imprisonment! Saturday, at Omaha, for the theft of one cent from a mail carrier. The penalty for placing the life of a U. S. employe in danger Is life Imprisonment, and as De Frances used a revolver he was given the only sentence possible. In pronouncing sentence the Judge expressed the opinion that the penalty was too severe, and said that if the prisoner conducted himself properly he would at the expiration of a few years, head a petition for his*pardon. r. 6The Colorodo Senate was in session, Thursday, to receive the report of the special committee appointed to consider the Governor’s message. The report declared that there was no occasion for a special session apd recommended adjournment, Friday. In regard to tho propositionto coin Colorado silver into Mexican dollars and declare the same legal tender, the committee reported that the authority of the United States was supreme, and

ttfht the Governor’s suggestion was absolutely impracticable. Twomen, believedto $e Chris Evans, the Visalia bandit and his promising “understudy,” Ed Morrell, raided the town of Fowler. Cal., Wednesday evening, and another tale of bloodshed and terror is the result. Fowler is a village of 300 inhabitants, ten miles southeast of Fresno. The bandits “held up” six citizens and secured 170, but the town constables came to the rescue and a general fusilade ensued. One constable was seriously wounded The constable feW and while trying to shoot the robbers accidentally wounded two citizens. The robbers then escaped. The Republican National Executive committee met at Washington, Tuesday. Chairman Carter resigned. Joseph H. Sfanley was selected for temporary chairman and William M. Hahn was elected Secretary. The proceedings of the Committee were secret. The Committee adjourned at midnight, after eleven hours continuous session. At the evening meeting plans of reorganization were outlined by the chairman. A Congressional committee. with headquarters at Washington, will furnish campaign documents; the league of clubs, with headquarters in Chicago, will be depended on to distribute the documents, organize the voters, and, with the Congressional committee, will supply speakers. foreign. Extremely cold weather prevails in England and on the continent. Valliant, the French anarchist who threw the bomb into the Chamber of Dep» uties at Paris, Dec. 4, was sentenced to