Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Count Herbert Bismarck and family have arrived in New York. A little boy died in New York city from lockjaw, caused by vaccination. Two deputy sheriffs wounded in a fight with the Dalton gang at Yukon, O. T., have since died. The Poles of New Jersey unveiled a Decoration Day. Peter Jackson has accepted the London Club’s offer of £3,000 for a fight with Champion Corbett. The oldest Free Mason has died again in the person of Capt. Nathan Peters, South Hampton, N. H. At Dorsey ville, La., Adolph Block and Jules Lake engaged in a gun light with a negro and all three were killed. . Mose and Julia Levy are in the New York bastile on the charge of swindling a large millinery firm out of $103,000. At Muscatine, 111., Thursday, W. A, Nicolaus applied for a divorce from his wife, the notorious Zella Nicolaus. Mrs. Cleveland, who has been visiting her mother at Buffalo for some time, re~tufned to Washington, Saturday. v William P. Pence,of Indiana,will be ope of the graduates from West Point this week. He stands third in his class. - At Atlantic, la., Gen. James B. Weaver was nominated as the Populist candidate for Congress from the Seventh district. John Setzer, Marshall, 111., worth $7?,000, was probably fatally injured in a runaway accident at Terre Haute, Wednesday afternoon. 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 United Presbyterian Assembly at Albany, Ore., adopted a recommendation protesting against Catholic encroachment on Indian schools.

Ex-President Harrison and ex-Attorney General Miller were admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals at Chicago, Thursday. Mgr. Satolli has condemned Father Kolaszewaki. the priest who organized an independent church in Cleveland, and has ordered him to get out. During a ball game at Chippewa Falls. Wis., the grand stand fell. Many of its occupants were injured and a carpenter at work underneath was killed. George Daniels, of Clarkstown, New York, after an all night session Of the jury of which he was a member, became insane and wastaken to an asylum. In a Memorial Day address at Galesburg Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, declared that further growth of industrial and labor organizations must bo checked by law. The Guion steamship company will go out of business within thirty days. The Alaska left New York for Liverpool, Saturday, being the last of the Guion line that will sail. The Cunard steamer Lucanla dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, Saturday night, having traveled 2.875 knots in five days, twelve hours and fifty-seven minutes. This breaks all previous records. The printers’ monument to Horace Greeley, at Now York, was unveiled, Wednesday. The statue is of heroic-pro-portions. On the pedestal Is the inscription: “Erected by Typographical Union

No. 6.” At Manhattan Beach, a pleasure retort near Cincinnati, Thursday evening. Ike Adler, an amateur, made a balloon tscension and came down by a jaraehute into the Ohio river and was drowned. His body has not been recovered. The second indictment of manslaughter against Col. Ainsworth, chief of the pention record division of the War Department, in connection with improperly coniucting the Ford’s theater repairs, was juashed, Thursday. This practically mds the prosecution. Baby Haight, born three months ahead of time in New York, was put in Robinion’s incubator, New York, and cared for. Friday she was taken out alive, well and hungry. She is the daughter of E. C. Haight, the millionaire, who is overjoyed as a result of the incubator experiment. Senator Gorman is seriously ill from bladder trouble. An operation will be necessary, but the <Senator fears to risk the result because of his impaired nervous system. The distinguished Senator inffers constant pain and worry, and the •.hances of his recovery are said to be (light. While Samuel Courtwright, an old soliier of Valparaiso, was decorating his residence in honor of Decoration Day, William Hampton, of Owensboro, and Orlando Merritt, of Lexington, Ky., stood by and cheered for Jeff Davis. This led to the arrest of the chivalric Kentuckians and they were sent to jail for eleven lays. 6 A business men's meeting at Now York, Friday night, to protest against the proposed Income tax, was largely attended. A letter was received from Senator Hill Mating that he would use every effort to iefeat the clause providing for such a tax. A resolution was adopted urging al) business organizations to hold massmeetings and protest against the objectionable feature of the new tariff bill. Three hundred clerks were discharged from the War Department at Washington, Thursday. Republicans and Democrats appear to have been discharged dike and no favoritism shown. One clerk discharged had been in the service forty years. The reductions are made In conformity with the Dockery bill and applied to nearly every bureau. The bill calls for a reduction of 450 clerks, of which number over one-half are to be taken from the Records and Pension Division. Claus Spreckels, the millionaire sugar raiser of the Hawaiian islands, in an interview at New York. Monday, said that the provisional government of Hawaii Is bound to be overthrown, and that the Queen will probably be restored by revolutionary methods. Ho favored a republic but said that the great majority of voters favored a restoration. Mr. Spreckels has disposed of his interests in the islands, and will have no further connection with Hawaiian affairs. The striking miners in the Cripple Creek region of Colorado, secured as prisoners, Sam McDonald, manager of the Strong mine, and several other employes. The authorities also took a number of the strikers and held them as prisoners. Saturday the strikers sent Marshal Baron, of Cripple Creek, word that unless their mon were at once released they would kill McDonald and all the men held by them

as hostages. A truce was agreed on and delegations from each held conferences, the result of which had not been announced up to Monday, < An imposing monument to the Confederate dead was unveiled at Richmond, Wednesday. This moument is notable in design, conspicuous in its situation, and stands on ground of great'historic interest. It is a single granite shaft, surmounted by a heroic statue of a Confederate soldier. The shaft is an exact copy of PomPillar, the famous monol itif which stands near Alexandria, Egypt, overlooking the waters of the Mediterranean. The monument as a whole is a representation of what many people believe Pompey’s Pillar, originally was, The pillar, as it now stands, is a simple shaft, but it is held by many that a statue once crowned it. All of the seceding States contributed to the monment and sent stones which were placed in the structure.