Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — OTHER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Congressman Jerry Simpson is at Berks* ley Springs, W. Va. His condition is serious. A band of Coxeyltes who attempted to seize a freigh; train at Ellis, Kas., were captured. Two hundred seceders from Kelly’s army reached Carlysle, 111., Sunday, on a stolen train. 1 There is a proposition on foot at Richmond to erect an equestrian statue in honor of the late Gen. Tom Bennett. 1 James A. Crawford, State president es the United Mine Workers, has been nominated for Congress by Populists at Springfield, 111. 1 The shipment of strawberries from New Albany last Friday were 1,650 cases, or 0,300 gallons. The total shipmenu up to June 1 were»15,156 cases, or 80,942 gallons. 1 "Gen.” Fry has arrived at Washington but will not take command of the commonweal army. He claims that the various divisions under his command now en route to the capital number 3,000 men. Herr Dowe, the inventorof the so-called bullet proof coat, has written a letter to the Times offering to forfeit the purchase money to any one who buys his cuirass if it contains either iron or steel. The President and Vice-President of the Hungarian Diet. Count Tlsca and Baron Podmanisky all declined to enter the cabinet which Count Hedevary was trying to form and he has given up the task. In the primary election in Clinton county, Friday, to select delegates to the Congressional convention, ex-Congressman Cheadle captured twenty-two of the thirty-two delegates, while but eight were instructed for Capt. W. H- Hart, leaving two to be heard from. The Field Columbian Museum, occupying the Art Building at the World’s Fair grounds, was dedicated, Saturday afternoon. The museum is the largest in America, and has been established since the close of the Exposition. The exercises were simple and impressive. The program included an invocation by the Rev. F. W. Gunsaulus. a history of the museum by F. J. V. Skiff, an address by Edward G. Mason, and the formal opening address by Edward E. Ayer. While a pleasure party of Vincennes was boating on the Wabash river near that city the little steamer struck a log and was overturned, resulting in the drowning of Miss Mamie Mills. Mrs. Wm. Glover, Maurice Moore and Mark Ewing had narrow escapes. Miss Mills was a wealthy young woman, a member i of one of the oldest families of Vincennes. ! The village of Winthrop, thirty miles south of St. Joseph, Mo., has been engulfed and ruined by the high water in the Missouri river. Great pecuniary damage is entailed. If tho railroads are compelled to move it will necessitate abandoning the fIfIO.OOO railway bridge connecting Winthrop and Atchison. Winthrop, which was a town of 1,500 people, has already lost half its population, and, as the houses ca mot be sold, they are being torn down and carried into the country. Fawners whoowned farms valued at CDO two months ago are now without an acre of graunl.