Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A hominy trust is incubating. Chicago will have a new race track near Waldheim cemetery. Mrs. Lease will remove to California and engage in fruit raising. Senator Walthall, of Mississipi, has resigned because of ill health. The Illinois World’s Fair buildings has been sold for $1,650 to a Chicago firm. The aggregate number of Columbian stamps issued to postmasters was 1,998, 983C00. The appraisement of the San Francisco property of the late Senator Stanford is fixed at $17,638,319. Thomas North, on his way to the bank with $585 of his employer’s money, was robbed at Hamilton, O. - - ___l Mrs. Denoon, of San Francisco, died from injuries received In the collapse of a folding bed, Thursday. 11l with grip, Mrs. Martha Hanson, of New York,threw herself from a fifth-story window after cutting her throat. In addition to the anti-cigarette ordinance, Emporia, Kas-, will stop allnickle-in-the-slot machines and devices for games of chance. Millard F. Carr, express messenger at Kansas City, dropped his revolver on the floor It exploded and a bullet lodged near his heart. He will die. John Buchner, a negro ex-convict, was hanged by a mob at Manchester, Mo.. Wednesday, for assaults upon a colored woman and a white girl. “Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-aye” was played in the Grand Avenue Methodist church. Sunday, at Dubuque.lowa. and the church is “all tore up” as a result. Pha?be Couzin’s claim of $6,000 as alleged secretary of the board of lady mismanagers of the World’s Fair has been disallowed by Secretary Carlisle. 1 Proceedings were begun in court to contest the election of Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, Saturday. He is accused of holdingtoffice as a result of gross frauds. The reports of starvation in Manitoba* and the Northwest are verified. Advices state that hundreds of destitute people are walking the streets of Winnipeg. Reports from different Pittsburg mining districts indicate that the miners have failed to obey the general strike order, and the greater number of pits ard working. Miss Moyer, a Louisville seamstress, nursed Frank Lord, a medical student, and when the doctor threatened to send him to a hospital married him to take care of him. 1 President Cleveland has vetoed the North river bridge bill, a pet scheme of Senator Hill’s. It is stated by the friends of the measure that ft will be passed over the veto by a four-fifths vote. Fifteen people were killed and twetv-flve Injure I in a rear end collision on the west side of the Hackensack bridge on the Morris & Essex branch of the Lackawana & Western railroad, Monday The President, Wednesday, sent to the Senate the name of W L. Buchanan, of lowa, to be Minister to Argentine. Mr, Buchanan was formerly an editor in Indiana and removed to lowa in 1875. John S. Dodge, of Chicago, got a pension of $72 a month for total blindness, When the government fpund out that he had done duty as a Columbian Guard at the Worl i’s Fair he was arrested for fraud. -St. Joseph, Mo„ was the, scene of another bold and systematic train robbery, Thursday morning. Five masked men looted the express car and secured all the valuables to an amount unknown. The robbers, escaped. Attorney - General Stockton, of New Jersey, has rendered an-opinion that the Republican Senate of that State is not a legal body. The Republicans have Issued a reply. Efforts at compromise are being made by the contending factions. The Hawaiian minister, Lorin 11. Thurston, ridicules the idea that troops are being collected in Canada to fight for the cause of the deposed Qneen. He also says that the provisional government nas no idea of, sending Minister Willis home. At Carbon Hill. Ala., Bethel Cole found his wife in a room with George Creamer, both asleep. He blew’ out Creamer's brains with a revolver, and then went out and told what he had done. He has not b<en arrested and probably will not be. In response to received from various wool growers’ associations in the We 4. Governor Waite, of Colorado, issued a call for an international wool growers’ convention, to meet at Denver February 5 to tn k uch action on the wooi clause of the Wilson bill as may be deemed necessary. Representative Bland says Secretary Carlisle’s letter urging an immediate issue of bonds raises the bond issue very sharply as against the pending Bland bill to coin the seigniorage. “It is a plain propo--ftion t > run this Government on bonds,” said he. “and in my locality it would damn any administration for all time to come if executed. Ido not think the Secretary has the power to issue bonds under the present law.” The President. Saturday transmitted to Congress additional correspondence between Minister Willis and President Dole, i’here Is nothing of especial imooitance in the letters. Minister Willis seems to f e) insulted because President Dole asked him if he was conspiring to overthrow’ the government to which he was accredited. President Cleveland chaiacterises President Dole's commni.ication as “an extrtordlnary letter.” Henry B.’ Ives, who in the thirty-two years of his life has been president of five railroads, failed for $19,001,009, settled for 5 cents on the dollar, and spent twelve months and one day in the Ludlow street jail for debtors at New York, has returned from his Elba and is again the young Napoleon of finance. By a deal In Broadway Surface Railway stock, completed Tuesday, Mr. Ivos has Secured a profit of $3,000,0C0. Frank Kay and wife, who live at Crafton, a Pittsburg suburb, have two pretty children who are slightly older than President Cleveland’s babies, and who by a strange coincidence r< ceived th i names of Ruth and Esther before the White lLuie children. Mr, Kay has written the President Informing him of the conincldence arid has received from Private Secretary Thurber a pleasant note expressing the solicitude of Mrs Cleveland and the President for the welfare of his ch i Idren. The bottom, so to speak, will drop out of the telephone after the 30th of this month, and they should become as common in business offices as hat racks and almost as

cheap. If, however, you wish a telepboM for general use and have to depend on the exchange, yon will still be at the mercy of the Bell company, at least for some time to come. It is said that In New York and other large cities manufacturers of electrical apparatus are looking for a big boom in the telephone trade. A large number have been made, and these will be put on the market January 31. Gov. Mitchell, of Florida, having announced that the Corbett-Mitchell prize fight; Jan. 25, will not be permitted to take place at Jacksonville nor in the State If in his power to prevent it, and having notified various militia companies to report for duty at Jacksonville on that date to preserve the peace, a mass meeting of indignant citizens was held at Jacksonville, Tuesday night, at which resolutions Renouncing the Governor’s course were passed. The preparations for the proposed mill continue and trouble may result, FOREIGN. There Is a cabinet crisis in Servla. President Peixoto, of Brazil, is said to have resigned. The German minister of agriculture wants silver restored. The great mosque at Damascus, nnder which the head of John the Baptist was buried, has been burned. The King of Denmark and Prince Waldemar have got la grippe. Emperor William opened the Prussian Diet at Berlin, Tuesday. The Bank of England’s rate of discount remains unchanged at 3 per cent. Germany will have a deficit of over seventy million marks for the year. The brutality of the Berlin police in dealing with street crowds will be made a subject of investigation by the Reichstag, Gen. Emile Melinet, the father of the French army, is dead. He was born in 1798, and was a son of a General of the Empire. The propaganda at Rome has refused to take any action on the petition of the creditors of the late Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. Agents of the Hawaiian royalists are said to be organizing a company of soldiers at Vancouver to go to Honolulu and restore the Queen, but it is thought the scheme will fall through. A battle between Italian troops and an armed force of Anarchists took place in the hills near Tirano. Italy, Tuesday. Eight men were killed and forty or fifty injured in the fight.