Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Geo. W. Child.*. Iho distinguished editor Shd philanthropist, of Philadelphia, is seriously ill, ,*** hi* tight is expected In the lows Legislature iietwcen the prohibitionists and the Incai option p>cn. President Cleveland was In Hartford. Conn.. Tuesday, to attend the fm>»ral of his nephew. Henry E. Hastings. 11l with grip, Mrs. Martha Hanson, of Hew York.threw herself from a flfth-story window after cut tins her throat, i Clubs, bottles and atom* played a prominent part >in an Everson (Ta.» primary election. Two men were badly hurt. Hunter* near Binghampton. N. Y.. aeoidentally discovered a copious flow of oil on a rocky ledge near that city recently. -For receiving deposits afterh» know the South Side Savings Hank. Milwaukee, was Insolvent Cashier Kobtllng got ten •years. Tuesday. The yacht Natalie sailed from Savannah. Sunday, in a mysterious way. It is believed she carried a cargo of arras to •he Brazilian insurgents. In Chicago, Mrs. Annie Lindrewas so badly crushed by a hungry mob while trying to get bread for her starving children that slie died, Tuesday. The world-wido financial stringency is, liable to seriously altect the diamond market. Small stones are already being sold at half-price in the London'market, v. Tho lowa Supreme Court alTirmed its former decision holding that the “prohibitory amendment" Is not a part of the constitution of the State, having never been legally adopted. j , The President. Monday, sent the name of Wheeler 11. l’eckham, of New York, to the Senate to bo Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Peckham is recognized as an “anti-snapper" and wili be bitterly opposed by Senator Hill. The New York police wound np the Saturday night’s raiding at 12:15. Sunday morning, with a raid on John McGnrk’s saloon at 258 Bowery. Between 300 and 400 prisoners were taken at this saloon. Twenty couples had registered as man and wife, and there were but eight rooms In the bouse. Tt took fifty policemen to handle the "pull". The town of Ft. Payne, Ala., has gone the way of other boom properties, being •old to E. M. Cullora, a Birmingham capitalist. for *60.00). The purchaser assumed a mortgage for *360,000. The property includes 30,0 X) acres of mineral land, rolling mill, furnaces, etc., said to have cost New England capitalists several million dollars. Senator Walthall, who resigned because es ill healht, for tho balance of his term ending March 3,1835. did not give np his claim on the term beginning March 4,1835 to which he was elected, claiming that he has no logal right to resign until he has been sworn in for that term, He may reenter the Nennte next year if his health is sufficiently restored. The President, Monday, transmitted further correspondence in the Hawaiian jaatter to Congress. Among other docu■aents was a memorial from the Hawaiian patriotic League indorsing Commissioner Blount’s report. The memorialists claim •heir case Is aquestion of right and equity, and that the objection to a republic restoring a monarchy is not well founded. The paper closes as follows: There, the Hawaiians. as a nation, appeal for justice and redress to the impartiality of tho American nation, in whose honor, Integrity, and love of fair play we have so long and so patiently trusted. As peaceful and law-abiding citizens, ever ready to submit to the constitutional rule of the majority, wo ask that in the place of the present temporary usurpers, who are hostile to the native race, our own government, in tho person of Queen Lilioukalani. be restored to us with a new constitution, more equitable to ns than the one that was wrested from the late King Kalakaua in 1887 through force of arms.