Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

By an explosion in the coal mines at Blossburg, N. M., six miners were killed. For the first time since 1808 the State of New York has no representative in the Supreme Court of the United States. Official returns from the Pennsylvania Section give Grow, the Republican candilate for Congressman, 185,000 plurality. The insane asylum at Rochester, ff. Y„ turned, Monday night. The patients trere removed to another building without injury. . Jas. R. Mitchell, a Texas desperado, as 1 result of a feud, killed three persons and langerousiy wounded three others. Monlay, at Houston. The recent blizzard is reported to have lestroyed the peach and plum crop of wuthern Illinois. Currants and cherries ire badly damaged. 2 Boss McKane, the Brooklyn Sunday School Superintendent and election crook has been sentenced to six years in Sing Sing penitentiary. Miss Nancy Cook, a spinster cousin of Jefferson Davis, formerly of Plainfield, lied at Chicago, Monday, of paralysis. She worked as a seamstress in a corset factory. 2 The miilion-doilar hotel at Middlcsboro, Ky., constructed there a few 'years since in the palmy days of the ‘‘magic city,” is idvcrtised by the receiver for sale on March 12. Gov. Hogg and party while on a hunting expedition in Nacogdouches county, Tex., recently killed a deer out of season. They will be prosecuted under the gamq laws of that State. Mrs. Beresford, wife of a drayman, died of glanders at San Francisco, Tuesday.

She caught the disease from a horse sneezing in her face. The whole upper portion of her faco was eaten away by the disease. Chicago is eating diseased beef. LumpyJawed cattle have been slaughtered at the Stock Yards in numerous cases and the beef sold in the city. There is a great .icandal, and the city press is ventilating the matter. »The sensation in Washington society, is the desertion of Commodore W. K. Mayo by his twenty-year-old wife. The Commodore is seventy years old and the wedding was strongly opposed by the friends of both parties. Wallace, tho 500-pound lion on exhibition at a Chicago museum, escaped from his keepers and bounded into the audience, Wednesday. A great panic ensued. The angry beast was finally secured before any damage was done. 4 The officers and crew of the wrecked Kearsarge arrived in New York, Wednesday, in good health and spirits. Admiral Stanton gave a detailed account of tho cause of the wreck... There is no chance to save the famous old vessel. Chris. Evans was-safely landed behind the penitentiary walls at Folsom, Cal., Wednesday. He is said to now regret that he surrendered and thinks lie should Lave fought to the death, but claims that he did not have the heart to fire upon the crowd of old friends and neighbors that surrounded his home at Visalia, There is no longer doubt that yellow fever has made its appearance In the United States fleet at Rio, and that the Newark is now a fever ship. A cablegram received at Washington, Saturday, from Admiral Benham, at Rio, reads: ‘‘One man on tho Newark is ill with yellow fever. I have transferred him to the hospital, I shall send the NeVark to Rio de Piatte.” Orlando Coleman, of Ohio Falls, sleeping in the building in which his grocery and postoffice is located, peeped out in time to see three men in the act of breaking in, He thereupon armed himsolf and roached the ground by a back stairway, after which ho opened fire upon the intruders. The shots were promptly returned, and there was a lively fusilade, in which no one was hurt. The robbery, however, was headed off.