Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

There is likely to be bloodshed in BreckWfcfge’s Congressional district. Bnow fell to the depth of six inches in various parts of Kentucky, Sunday. A miner named Glover, who refused to strike at Birmingham, Ala., was as- . ~ ~TT" 2 —' ■ ■ ; ~ Two deputy sheriffs wounded in a fight with the Dalton gang at Yukon, O. T., have since died. Governor Northen, of Georgia, has been elected president of the American Baptist Educational Society. At Dorseyville, La., Adolph Block and Tales Lake engaged in a gun fight with a ■negro and all three were killed. . Congressman Breckinridge has practically accepted the invitation to deliver the Fourth of July address at Fulton, 111.

North Dakota will have a wheat acreage of four million to harvest next fall *nd the estimate is fifty million bushels. While attempting to rescue the crew of the waterlogged schooner William Shupe four sailors were drowned near Port Huron, Mich. It is stated that M. C. McDonald, the well known Chicago sporting man, is a candidate for Congress to succeed Allan •CL Durburrow. John Schindler, of San Francisco, supposed to be dead thirty-five years,returned to St, Joseph, Mo., and claimed a fortune left by his father. The Rev. Mr. Hooper, a Presbyterian minister at Cadillac, Mich., was horsewhipped on the street by Mrs. G. Miiler for alleged slander. A' riot was nearly precipitated in Racine, Wisconsin, by the opening of a barber shop on Sunday. Other barbers went in a body to the shop and threatened to ■prosecute the perpetrators. The State Department has granted per--misslomto to cross the bonier with arms and equipments and participate in the Fourth of July celebration at Seattle, Wash. Charles W. Harris, the father of Carlisle W. Harris, who was put to death at Sing Sing, about a year ago. for the murder of his girl wife, Helen Pitts, has bo-

come violently insane from grief over his son’s fate. IHs now stated that the Wiiito CrossSocial Purity League furnished Miss Pollard the money necessary to prosecute her suit against Col. Breckinridge. The judgment against Brer kin-ridge cannot be collected if it should be finally sustained. Armor plate submitted by the Bethlehem Steel Company to the naval authorities forthenew battleship Indiana, proved deficient at a test made on the 19th, at Washington. The plate submitted was of Harveyized nickel steel, sixteen feet long and seven and one-half feet high, and ranging from 18 to 42 inches in thickness. It weighed thirty-three and one-quarjer tons. It was backed l>y tliirtv-six inches of solid oak against a hill side. The first Shot from a Carpenter gun pierced; a hole and cracked the plate so bad that it was

ruined. , , ' - At a meeting at Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, of the Confederate Veterans’ .. AssfleiatiflilAnd its auxiliary, called to arrange for decorating the gravis of Confederates on Mav 26. quite a sensation was created. Mrs. A. M. Harrison, member of the auxiliary, and wives of other leading and wealthy citizens, made addresses and - said they would wot- place mflower on the grave of a single confederate unless th association expelled Colonel Breckinridge. The meeting adjourned amid confusion. Officers of the association say they can not expel Breckinridge, and the Women declare they will not take part in the exercises.