Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Senator Sherman is In poor health. Associate Justice White was sworn in, Monday. More than two hundred patents expired by limitation, Tuesday. Six hundred thousand eggs spoiled in a storage warehouse at Cedar Rapids, la. 2 St. Louis police got ninety Chinamen in a raid on Qu ong Son Wah’s erap joint. Samuel Theodore, manager of the Standard Oil Company at Council Bluffs, la., committed suicide. Fred Gebhardt, the noted New York dude, was married to Miss Louise Morris, at Baltimore, Wednesday. It is charged that the inmates of the - Old Soldiers’ Home at Ft. Dodge, Kan., are being fed on diseased meat. Each House of the Ohio Legislature passed the biennial session resolution after more than two months’ fighting. The Johnson steel works, at Johnstown, Pa., which have been shut for repairs since Jan. 1, resumed, Monday, giving employment to 2,000 men. Kansas City Democrats are “split wide

open” on local issuesand two tickets are ..ln..the field, each claiming to be the “regular” party organization. The biggest fleet of coal barges ever in charge of a single tow left Louisville, Tuesday, for down-river points. It carried over a million bushels. Two lives were lost by the bursting of a reservoir in Jdahp. The casualty was -similar to that at Johnstown, but people f vfere warned in time to escape. f An operation was performed on one of . Ringling Brothers’ tigers and a single'eye- . glass w&s found in his stomach. No otper remains of a dude was discoverable. A B. & O. train was "held up” at Forest Lawn, 111., four miles from East St Louis, r Tuesday night. The robbers became if '‘frightened and gave up the job before securing any valuables. The Cook coqnty commissioners have notified the city of Chicago that the ground now occupied by the City Hall jnust be vacated at once. The matter will taken to the courts, r. .John, !T. Ford, the veteran ■ theatrical *mkhagfer, who conducted Ford’s Washington, at the time Presi* ■dent Lincoln was assassinated* filed $t '"{’Baltimore, Wednesday. p Near Little Hock, Ark., a mulatto girl waS found hanging to a tree. She had blit her identity as well as. ''that of her lynchers, and the crime

charged against her, is unknown Freddie Gebhard, who some years ago G7 ya twined distinction because of his rel ations with Mrs. Langtry, sent to Miss Louise Morris, of Baltimore, his fiancee, a al i h tub vM c KW»t’ls4s6- - r *f j- i XJ- pblitrcal factions in' the £jt<JsOf Enid, Okla., are going arddnd 1 ’ ct wit* 'iirearps, kltfjpgs, =are .feared.. Tifettoublo is fiver tlw possesslon'or the’ mayor’s office and the town records. Frank E. Brownell, who killed Jackson, Uiaassass|n of QqL,Ellsworth, at AJexan.v M&y s 24, >lß6l, died aiV 'WtsHiftgWiv* Thursday. He had been a clerk in the Pension Office since the Arthur administration. All of the three hundred operatives at the Merrimac wooleitf iMlti Mass., went on stride, ftjpnday, as.a.Result of a redtictton.iq wjjgeg ranghhi ftom} 12 to 25 per, cent.,„Two thousand people IHT sh fomn <.•< gSB The bodies of the thirteen meh *>fl(tt to«pbed ia mine.neariWifkotbarrc, Pa*., Feb. 13, were recovered, Monday. The remains were so badly decogu posed that Identificatl^illtf'as 5 imya&lhlo except by the clothing. _____ A tight occurred between slrlEers and Xhe. Mingo mines, in Kentucky, Sunday night. One of the strikers was seriously wounded, ? ’’file strikers made a bold attempt to burn the tipple at the mine t but were driven oiff. Antonio Italian efrthe problem of pe SSSBHBr ! waipMlblne he ls ! ■ ■ It is in tfieb formal ' circle jMy by roll?-. ing sph^^^ ! TW' J *rictibfc.Siiiip!b|.cijn is said, to overcome feoiMßArehime- , deaiMmraw.