Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — TOE HEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

TOE HEWS OF THE WEEK

The Delmonfco restaurant, Seymour, is •aid to be almost as fine as the one bear-' tag the name in New York. TLeT eighty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln wits observed tn many places throughout the country, Monday. : Saloon-keeper Brockman, of Quincy. 111., has been sued for $5,000. lie sold whisky to a little boy. who thereby made two little girls drunk. Judge Williams, of the United States Circuit Court, of Arkansas, has declared the law of that State, taxing foreign corporations. unc institutional. The Colonnade between the Agricultural Building anJ Machinery Hall, at the World’s Fair groun is, was destroyed by fire, Wednesday. Incendiary. A lion tamer at Col. Boone’s menagerie, Midwinter Fair, San Francisco,was fatally mangled by three lions, Wednesday. John Y. McKane, the Brooklyn politieal boss, on trial for contempt, anl other •ffenses, was found guilty by the jury. Thursday, with recommendations for tlemency. Sentence was reserved. 4 Ex-Governor Ira J. Chase, of Indiana, has been holdiug a series of meetings in the Church of Christ, at McComb, 0., and through his eloquence and forcible discourses has added fifty-one members to that church.' The grand jury at Toledo Is investigating a gold-brick case. The victim is John Broil, a farmer, and he paid $6,682 for two brass bricks, after thoy had been tested by "government assayers” last week. The twindle was perpetrated in the loading hotel of Toledo. i At Henderson, Ky., John H. Barrett & Co.’s large tobacco steamery and the factory of E. H. Soaper.both containing about me million pounds of tobacco, together with four brick dwellings, woro burned, Sunday. Loss, over $150,000, insurance, 1115.000.

The President, Monday, transmitted to Congress additional Hawaiian correspondtnce, which was accompanied by a short message of explanation. An interview took flace between Secretary Gresham and the Hawaiian minister at Washington, Satorday, the details of which have not been made public. The crew of the United States cruiser Kearsarge was n sc in d at noon, Saturday. All are woil and healthy, except one man who was drowned. He was a second-class fireman named Anderson Robbins. The old warshlp was abandoned on Roncador reef with the stars and stripes still flying •t her peak. Billy Deutsch, the gambler, who once broke the bank at Monte Carlo, died at Denver, Monday, of delirium tremens. He had won and squandered several large fortunes. For the past two years he was a traveling agent for a wine and cigar house, when his health, which had been ruined by his dissipations, permitted him to attend to business. Princess Colonua. step-daughter of the millionaire J. W. Mackay, whoso suit for divoreo from her husband, the Princo of Colonna, is pending in the courts of France, arrived at New York. Sunday, accompanied by her three children. Colonna Is the proudest name In the nobility of Rome and the Prince Is the lineal de•cendant and present representative of an ancient Italian name. lie was married to Mi3j, Mackay in 1885.