Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

President has gone fishing} Sown the Atlantic coast, and expects to; Jrom Washington ten or twelve days. The industrial Wool Working Company, jf Philadelphia, Pa„ offers to remove its plant to Richmond if sufficient inducements are offered. * The United States Supreme Court,Monday, decided against John Y. McKane r . the Gravesend boss, on every point of his appeal and he will have to serve out his sentence. One of the most destructive cyclones ?ver known in the Chickasaw nation has passed-over that country.—No less thantwenty houses were blown down. Several persons were hurt, - A beautiful bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, by Sunol, was unveiled in Central Park, Saturday. Chauncy M. Depew was the orator of the day, and Vice President Stevenson also made a short speech. The Rew Myron W. Reed, perhaps the best known minister in Colorado, in a sermon, Sunday night, at Denver, on the Coxey movement, said: “I would like to see a half million of the unemployed camped' in and around the National Reservation, called the District of Columbia. From there the most of our woes have come. To there let them return. Let. chickens hatched in Washington go home to roost/’ An anti-Ereckinridge mass meeting was held at Lexington, Ky., Monday. Several hundred women were in attendance. Red hot resolutions denouncing Col. Breckinridge’s candidacy for Congress were adopted. Senator Blackburn was called upon to come homeand taketherdstrum against Breckinridge. A cyclone passed over Kunkle, 0., Thursday afternoon, killing five persons. Many others are believed to be fatally injured. The violence of the funnel-shaped cloud was unprecedented, but its path in which the people were killed was so completely demolished that not even the foundation was left, the site being marked, only by a. huge hole in the ground.