Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Smallpox epidemic in Chicago. Cleveland has a smallpox scare. Two street cars have been held up by highwaymen fa gaa .lYancisco within four days. Ex-Gov. Jarvis has been appointed to succeed the late Senator Vance of North Carolina. At Tallulah (La.) a race war is on, and so far one white man and one negro have been killed. Street car employes of Milwaukee notified the company that they will not accept 17%c an hour. At Pineville, Ky., the cabin of John Duncan, a negro, burned, and three children were cremated. Major Clifton Comly, president of the Ordnance Board, died at New York City. Wednesday, of paralysis. In accordance with the Supreme Court decision, Gov. Tillman closed all the dispensaries in South Carolina. The chief issue in the local campaign at Washington is, Shall saloons be taxed 1250 per year for municipal license? Ten cases of small-pox have been found in Chicago’s county hospital and the institution has been quarantined. The strike among the pressmen in the big lithographing houses of New York is still in progress. Over one thousand men are onto - ** The Standard Oil Company is leasing gas land in the vicinity of Redkey, and it is said that a pipe line will be laid to Lima, O. Lieutenant Maney, of the United States army, on trial at Chicago for the murder of Captain Hedburg, was acquitted, Saturday evening. Vandals removed the corner-stone of the United Brethren church, near Byrkitt, carrying off S2O in money, a bottle of wine and other articles. General James B. Weaver is reported to have decided to remove from lowa to Beloit, Kas., where he has been offered the Populist nomination for Congress. The Commissioners of Jay county have granted right of way to the Ohio Gas Company to lay two ten-inch mains across the county to supply Ohio towns with natural gas.

It is announced that Jthe Hiil-Gorma n faction will demand still more protection to Eastern interests before giving their support to the tariff bill now pending in the Senate. Florence Blythe, the illegitimate daughter of Thomas H. Baldwin, of ’Frisco, has been awarded his fortune of $4,000,090, and the 100 other claimants, are simply wild with anger. Frank Hatton, ex-Postmaster General, and pt present one of the proprietors of the Washington Post, was stricken with paralysis while at work at his desk, Tuesday. His condition is serious. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Frederick L. Hall, composing the firm of Charles L. Webster & Co., book publishers of New Yofk, assigned, Thursday. Liabilities $250,000. Assets at least $200,000. The great strike ordered by the United Mine Workers for April 21 was carried into effect It is estimated that from»130,000 to 150,000 men answered the call in all the coal regions of the country. Miners In southern Illinois and the Far West refused to strike.

William McGarrahan. the celebrated claimant to the New Idria mine, died at Washington, Thursday. The McGarrahan claim involved several million dollars, and has been before Congress for thirty years. President Harrison vetoed the bill granting relief on technical grounds. 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.