Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Congressman Brattan. of Maryland, lied at Princess Anne, Md., Thursday. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, has been slack balled by the Millionaires’ Club of New York. It is said that Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, is being groomed for the Populist aomination for President. The British forces in Africa have defeated Kabpigo, i King of Unyoro, and (lain many of Ris followers. The efforts to bring about a big general strike of coal miners in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico have failed. The Post - Intelligencer, of Seattle, Wash,, has been sold to Frederick D. Grant and Editor George H. Heilbrcn. Tip, a savage elephant in Central Park, by the park commissioners. lie will be poisoned. Troops charged with drawn swords on anti-Jewish rioters in Grajewo, Russian Poland, killing four and wounding one hundred, A conference between the Chicago brick manufacturers and their employes resulted in a settlement and the strike was detlared off. The Erick Coke Company is making a desperate effort to start its works secretly, as it did daring great strike three years ago. Gen. O. O. Howard has been elected president of the Na tional temperance society to succeed John Wanamaker of Philadelphia. Mrs. tease may run for Congress in the Seventh Kansas district should Jerry Simpson not make the race. Mr. Simpjon is in poor health. The British ship Senegal, bound from San Diego, Cal., for Tacoma, is long overdue. She left San Diego on March 15, and has not been heard of since. Bishop Matz has excommunicated Father Malone, of Denver, and about one hundred of his parishioners for taking a church matter into the courts. An atrocious crime is reported from Puachita county, Arkansas. A negro, ill of smallpox, was put in a cabin, to which tome one set fire, and he was burned to death. One of the most destructive cyclones ever known in the Chickasaw nation ha-; passed over that country. No less than twenty houses were blown down. Several persons were hurt. Horatio Nelson Clark, the veteran who discovered the spring of water in Andersonvillo prison and which was named ‘'providential spring,” was killed on the West Shore road at AurierSville, N. Y. The German steamship companies, in pursuance of the terms of compromise with the British companies, have ordered the reduction of steerage passage rates from Italian ports to Now York to 120. Representative Griffin, of Detroit, long afflicted with Impaired hearing, has become totally deaf because of a recent cold. Aurists hope to relievo him, but Mr. Griffin is preparing to retire to private life. The Louisville Courier-Journal opposes the renomination of Col. Breckinridge, and characterizes his Lexington speech of last Saturday as “a strange exhibition of marvelous effrontery and wretched taste.”