Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Several hundred patents expired by limitation, Tuesday. . . Herr Most, the high priest of New York anarchists, has fled from Gotham, a financial wreck. The official plurality for Brown, Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, is 6,033. All the coopers in St. Louis, about two hundred in number, struck, Thursday, for increased wages. A man suffering from black smallpox (lied in the Harrison street police station, Chicago, Monday. Kansas Populists have decided to make the freight rate question the issue in the Approaching campaign. Tests of the bullet-proof coat invented Jay Herr Dowe, a Manheim tailor, havo been highly satisfactory.' Elections in a number of New Jersey cities, Tuesday* resulted in an almost universal Republican triumph. A movement to boom Judge Caldwell for the Republican presidential nomination in 1896 has been started at Topeka, Kan. The President, Tuesday, issued a proclamation warning all persons against violating tho recent seal fisheries act of Congress. The ‘‘Rev.” Clement W. Lewis, the colored pension swindler, was sentenced at Chattanoga, Tenn., to twenty-eight years’ imprisonment. Three opium smugglers have been arrest at Buffalo, N. Y., and 403 pounds of tho drug seized. It was secreted in a Chinese laundry. ‘ Assassin Prendergast is again in the dungeon in tho Chicago jail. Ho' struck a guard, and tho latter returned the blow with much vigor. Arsenic was placed in the coffee at a Danville (Ill.) boarding house by some one unknown, and James Gaskell is dead and five other persons seriously ill. Little Christopher Columbus, the Esquimau baby that was born at the World’s Fair, last summer, died at tho Midwinter Exposition grounds at San Francisco on Wednesday. In an attempt to rob Rock Island train No. 1, at Pond Creek, near Wichita, Monday, one robber was killed by Jacob Harmon, the express messenger. The rest of the gang escaped, but a second man is known to have been wounded. The highest court of Mexico has confirmed thadeath sciitencc recently passed upon Chas. Adams, the American who killed a waiter in a restaurant in tho city of Mexico three years ago. Adams will be shot within the next few days. The National Convention of United Mine'Workers of America in session at Columbus, 0., Wednesday, ordered a general strike April 21. Tho Indiana miners will join in tho movement although their contracts do not expiro until May 1. Henry Fossmeyer, of Vincennos, attempted to cure a balky horse by fastening a chain to its lower jaw, one end of which was attached to a wagon drawn by

two horses. Tho horse stood still until its jaw was wrenched off, after which it was shot. At Albany, N. Y., Tuesday, municipal elections resulted in a defeat for tho regular Democratic ticket. A combination of Republicans and Hill Democrats, styling Themselves the Pure Elections party. sticceeded in capturing tho city government. The city of Albany has been in the hands of Democratic officials for fifteen years. A terrific storm prevailed along the Atlantic coast, Wednesday. At New Fork the water rose rose within two feet of tho barge office on the Battery. The fog in New York harbor was the heaviest in years. One vessel is known to havo been lost near Squau life station with twelve men washed overboard. It is soared that many fatalities havo occurred. Tho fifteen-year-old daughter of J. Luckisha, near Cusco. la., died suddenly, as was supposed. Tho following day the body was burled. Throe days later tho grave was opened, from a suspicion that the girl had been buried alive. Tho glass in the coffin was found broken, and the body was in a condition of fearful contortion, faco downward. It is given out from Washington that Col. Breckinridge will seek a renomination and re-election to Congress in spite of the great scandal, and it is further stated that in all probability he will be returned by tho usual majority. His colleagues, except in a very few instances, treat him cordially, and it seems that his public career will not be very greatly Interfered with by tho famous brcach-of-promise trial, no matter what tho verdict may be. Wednesday morning 400 strikers iwooped down upon tho Youngstown works of Frick & Co., completely surprised and captured almost every ono of the seventy workmen and deputies and took them with them without firing a shot. Tho housos wero next broken open and tho men not working were also compelled to go with the strikers. At Youngstown and many other plants in this vicinity work was resumed, Wednesday morning, with almost a full quota of men. Tho strikers arrested tho deputy sheriffs and took them along. A swarm of armed deputies are guarding the iJlo works. Not an English speaking man was soon in tho mob.