Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Rains fell throughout Nebraska. Killing frosts in northwestern Ohio, Wednesday. Forest fires are reported in the vicinity of Virginia, Minn. Striking miners to the number of 1,275 are camped near Trinidad, Colo. The river at Portland, OSK” rose 'three inches in twenty-four hours, Tuesday. ’Frisco’s midwinter fair may have a fight between a grizzly bear and a lion. The strikers who were expected to blow up the bridge at Kenova. W. Va., failed to arrive. William Walter Phelps, ex-minister to Germany, is seriously ill at his home in New Jersey. Gov. Waite settled the gold miners’ strike at Cripple Creek, each side making concessions. AU the miners employed by the Saginaw Bay, Mich., coal company walked out, demanding fl a ton. At Calloway, Neb., a tornado wrecked -grand army hall and blew the episcopal church off its foundation. The Fraser river is still rising and is now at Vancouver ll l <j inches higher than the great flood of 1882. lowa is suffering from a drought. No rain has fallen Tn three weeks, and the oat and hay crop will be extremely light. 4Merchants of Milwaukee have asked the newspapers to suppress news concerning suiallpox in the interest of business. Eddie Hortz and Tom Hart were killed near Sherpardsville, Ky., by a companion rolling a huge stone upon them from a cliff.

Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, has announced himself as a candidate for United States Senator and says that he will be elected. In an address before the International Temperance Congress on Staten Island Neal Dow denied that prohibition had been a failure in Maine. sThe plurality of Lord, the Republican candidate for Governor of Oregon, will be about 17,000,_tne largest Republican plurality ever given by the State. Gen. Hewston, of California, has been held for manslaughter in London. He killed a street musician by punching him in the eye with an umbrella. Judge Barr, United States Circuit Court at Q wens boro, Ky., decides that the law requiring a separate railway coach for colored people is unconstitutional. Turned out of home for non-payment of rent, Mrs. A. E. Clarke, of Chicago, wandered through the streets until her six-weeks-old child died from exposure and exhaustion. Geo. Hill, Baltimore, found men’s garments in his wife’s room, Sunday, and promptly shot her fatally. And the landlady was responsible for the clothes, not Mrs. Hill,, The United States wants 115,000,000 of the Stanford estate, being the proportionate share of the debt which the Central Pacific owes Uncle Sam. Mrs. Stanford will resist the claim, The big elevator men of Chicago have declared war on the Board of Trade because of the recent adoption of an amendment prohibiting regular elevator owners' from trading in grain on ’Change. A fire at Ottumwa, la., Sunday, burned five blocks of buildings, causing a loss of 8225,000, about one-third insured. James Seymour, a dwarf, was burned to death, and three others were seriously injured. The 850,000 chapel which was one of the chief features of the Tiffany exhibit at the Exposition has been purchased by a Chicago widow, and it will be set up in that city, next spring, as a memorial chapel. The Viking ship reached Chicago. Sunday, via. the new ship canal and was escorted down the Chicago river, out into the lake and up to Lincoln Park with considerable ceremony. The boat will remain at Lincoln Park indefinitely. A youth of eighteen, named Leslie Cochran, in Calloway county, Kentucky, who had been rejected by a girl of thirteen for a rival of sixteen years, shot and killed the successful suitor and dangerously wounded the father of the girl. An election for State Supreme Court Judge in the Fourth Illinois District took place, Monday, June 4. Joseph N. Carter, Rep., was elected by a majority of over 4,000. Two years ago Cleveland led Harrison 7,003 votes in the same counties. The celebrated horse King William . that was such an attraction at the World’s Fair, said to be the largest horse in the world, died at Chester, Tuesday night. He was 27X hands high and weighed 3,000 pounds. His owner was taking him to Coney Island, where he was to be an attraction.

Breckinridge spoke at Midway, Satur - day, to €0) persons, including fifteen women. He was followed by Settle, one of his opponents, and Immediately fifty women entered the hall to hear the latter and rebuke Breckinridge. The Colonel is mad. Gov. McKinley, Wednesday afternoon, ordered out a force of 1,200 militiamen to the scene of the strike in eastern Ohio. All the command of the Fourteenth regiment and the Eighth regiment and several companies of the Seventeenth regiment have been ordered out. The Fourteenth regiment left on a special train at midnight for eastern Ohio. The scenes of the trouble are in Belmont and Guernsey counties. Tiifanys, of New York, have just completed an art work in solid silver, which perpetuates on metal the marvelous architecture and the pictures of the exhibits iri ono of the most interesting buildings at Ithe World's Columbian Exposition. The art work is In the form of a testimonial vase presented by prominent American exhibitors to Willard A. Smith, chief of the department of transportation exhibits Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton, professor of history In Columbia College, Now York, and Dr. Henry 11. Busby, professor of botany in the College df Pharmacy, pronounce the root that killed the five little boys In Tarrytown to be the poison of Socrates, or water hemlock, one of the deadliest of poisons. The root is a little t thiCker than an ordinary lead pencil. Dr. Britton says the scientific name for the root is Cienta Immaculate. From it grows lan herb four or five feet high. It is plentiful in all the Eastern States, the roots lying close to the surface. It disappears from cultivated soil. The herb has a white flower, and, Dr. Busby says, the marsh lands all around New York abound Tn it. At Boise, Ida., Tuesday, Judge Beatty

sentenced the two hundred Coxeyites arrested several days ago for stealing a Union Pacific train. General Scheffler was given six months. Quartermaster Gen eral Breckinridge fonr months, and the other leaders from thirty days to four months in the various county jails in the State. The rank and file, almost 180 in number, were given from thirty to sixty days in a blockade prison, to be erected on the Idaho and Oregon line. Judge Beatty said he was inclined to release any or all Coxeyites, excepting the leaders, who would go back to Portland, but that no one could go East. Three citizens of Montpelier who assisted the ’wealers to steal the train were given three months in the county jail.