Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

U. S. Supreme Court had advanced Boss McKane’s case to April 23. Ex-Governor and U. S. Senator J. M, Harvey, died at Junction City, Kan. Ed Morrell, partner of Bandit Chris Evans, was sentenced to life imprisonment. An exceptionally large number of counterfeit 82 bills are in circulation in St. Louis. Two street cars have been held up by highwaymen in San Francisco within tour days. Ex-Gov. Jarvis has been appointed to succeed the late Senator Vance of North Carolina. Street car employes of Milwaukee notified the company that they will not accept 17Xc an hour. At Pineville, Ky., the cabin of John Duncan, a negro, burned, and three children were cremated. Ohio General Assembly will urge Senator Brice to support the Wilson bill as it came from the House. Major Clifton Comly, president of the Ordnance Board, died at New York City. Wednesday, of paralysis. 4 Ten cases of small-pox have been found In Chicago’s county hospital and the initltution has been quarantined. Dr. Lewis Swift, the astronomer ol Rochester, N-Y., is about to remove to Pasadena, Cal., for permanent residence. A terrible blizzard prevailed in the Dakotas, Thursday. Rain fell in a deluge and the temperature fell to the freezing point. The strike among the pressmen in the big lithographing houses of New York is still in progress. Over one thousand men are out. The Standard Oil Company is leasing gas land In the vicinity of Bedkey, and it is said that a pipe line will be laid tc Lima, O. The American cruseir San Francisco has arrived at Bluefields. The Nicaraguans are said to contemplate a second seizure of the territory. The Colorado Supreme Court tas granted the writ of ouster in the Fire and Police Board controversy, and ordered the board to turn over the offices. This Is a complete victory for Governor Waite. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Frederick L. Hall,composing the firm ol Charles L. Webster <& Co., book publishers of Now York, assigned, Thursday. Liabilities 8250,003. Assets at least 8200,000. Employes of the Great Northern Road, from Devil’s Lake, N. D., to the coast are on a strike. Two thousand men'are out and the strike is liable to spread to other roads. The movement is not endorsed by Unions nor by the Brotherhood of Engineers. 6 Attorney Charles H. Stoll, who-claims to have been insulted by Attorney Jere Wilson during the Pollard-Breckinridge trial, has written Wilson a fiery letter, which, it is said, is in the nature of a challenge, to which Mr. Wilson has made no response. The Supreme Court of South Carolina has declared the State dispensary liquor law unconstitutional. Two hundred “blind tigers,” as saloons operating in a secret way in defiance of the State law were called, Immediately opened theii doors at Charleston. A special from Glenville, W. Va., says that Lord Rydabaugh, a prosperous farmer of Calhoun county, hanged his two childredn, aged three and five yeara respectively, and then took his own life. His wife was absent during the day, and on her return found the bodies hanging from the rafters of the house. FOREIGN. The British income tax will bo Increased one penny on the pound. Queen Victoria arrived at Coburg, Tuesday. and was received in great state. The wheat in the vicinity of English is reported in good condition with prospects for a large yield. It is rumored in London that the Princess of Wales is in retirement on account of insanity. The Australian government has decided to loan money to farmers from the savings bank balances. Mexico does not fear heavy importation of American bar silver for coinage. Public opinion is against the project. Rlaz Pasha has resigned the premiership of Egypt, and Nubar Pasha has been intrusted with the formation of a Cabinet. Germany has not made any suggestion of a German protectorate over the Samoan islands, as intimated 'in dispatches received at Berlin from Washington. The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung says Emperor William has issued an order prohibiting the officers of the Gorman army or navy from betting on the “totalisalpr” system.