Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Kelly’s Commonwealers reached Paiucah, Ky., Monday. Missouri river is within four feet of the langer line at Omaha. Three suicides departed to the unknown ihore from Pittsburg, Thursday night. The case of Assassin Prendegast at Chicago has been continued until Noveip- - aer.—, . - ■ 1 . ~ ,__ United States marshals arrested twenty;wo Coxeyites for seizing a train at Fairield, 111. 6 Republicans and Populists have combined in Tennessee on candidates for the ~ Supreme bench. / ' . ; The celebrated Hoffman House at New York is closed for the summer. Will rojpen in September. whose husband attempted to beat her, killed him with a baseball bat. A Vandalia train was wrecked near Posahontas, 111-, Saturday. One man was Killed and several injured. The iron bridge on the K. C., M. & B. at Carbon Hill, Ala., was blown up with dynamite, Monday morning. Congressman Hitt has been nominated for the seventh time by the Republicans of the Ninth Illinois district. Mayor Hopkins has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of Chicago to assist the strikers at Pullman. Erastus Wiman was placed on trial at New York, Monday. The specific charge was forgery in the second degree. President Cleveland is suffering from the extreme hot weather and the regular Monday reception was abandoned. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Phipps, Jr., will give to Pittsburg a telescope containing the largest lens in the world. Chief-Judge Beasley, New Jersey Supreme Court, decides that the Legislature can not give women the right to vote. It is said that the Carnegie Steel Company has bought a large interest in the treat Oliver copper mine near Duluth. Cyrus W. Field, jr...son of the distinguished financier Cyrus W. Field, died at New York, Saturday, aged thirty-five. For alleged conspiracy with the saloonkeepers. the Rev. A. C. Dixon, of Brooklyn, wants Mayor Schieren impeached. Near Talequah, I. T., an Indian desperado killed a man. woman and boy and was later shot by the son of his victims. The National Glass Workers’ Union has ordered that the lamp flue factories close (or the summer vacation on tho 30th inst. A bridge on the Wheeling & Lake Erie foad near Massilon, 0., was blown up with giant powder, Monday, by strikers. Mrs. Lois Tritton, who was the last plave sold at auction in New Haven, Conn., (in 1835 is dead at tho age of ninety-five. M’llo Beatrice, the young woman who was bitten by a lion at Coney Island, Saturday night, is in a very precarious condition. Jennie Higgins, telephone girl at Belle Mead, N. J., ate two quarts of cherries and a quart of peanuts, Monday, and died in awful agony. Richard Croker, late Tammany’s chief sachem, sailed for Europe, Saturday. His sudden departure was unexpected and created a sensation at New York. An’ - immense audience listened to speeches by Owens and Settle at Lexington, Ky., Monday. After scorching Breckinridge each speaker assailed the other. —Representatives of-the Knights of Labor, Farmers’ Alliance, Federation of Labor and railroad brotherhoods are meeting at St. Louis to consider a plan for closer union. Delegate Smith, of Arizona, says tho education of Indians does more harm than good, and will try to kill the appropriations for Carlisle, Hampton and other schools. The fact that Theodore Nevins, one of the doorkeepers of the Chicago Board of Trade, has the smallpox, is causing considerable excitement among the members of tho Board. The Republicans have fifty-two majority on joint ballot in the Oregon legislature. Hermann, for Congress in tho First district, has 9.089 plurality and Ellis, in the Second, 9,320. Astronomers at Boston have been informed by a telegram from Dowell Observatory at Flag Staff that two star-liko lights have been discovered within the south polar snow caps of Mars. President Cleveland, by tho advice »of his physician, left Washington, Thursday evening, for a few days’ trip down Chesapeake bay. Mr. Cleveland has been quite sick because of tho excessive heat. Tho order of Superintendent Byrnes, that Sunday liquor traffic in Now York , city must cease, was generally observed last Sunday. One hundred and lifty-six arrests for violations of the excise law were made. A story comes from Atlanta that in Pierco county, Georgia, a negro named Moses Herring, who had assaulted a white woman, was caught by a mob and literally skinned alive, dying six hours later as a result, • Coxeyites to the number of 210 arrived at Chesterton, Monday. They demanded food and said they would help themselves ‘lf it was not forthcoming. The sheriff was summoned from Valparaiso and serious trouble averted. William Deering, the harvest-machine manufacturer, has given 850,000 to tho medical school of the Northwestern University of Chicago. Tho gift is to be used in founding a uew professors hip in honor of Dr. N. S, Davis, of that city. The cash balance In tho Treasury is 8116,813,621, of which 869,375,526 is gold reserve. This amount will be further reduced by 81,001,000 engaged at New York for shipment Tuesday, leaving the true amount of tho reserve 868,374,526. S. J. Kizcmanski, who had lived twen-ty-five years in America, was, the moment ho arrived in Russia, arrested and sentenced to bo transported to Siberia. The Polish people of Buffalo have reported tho matter to Secretary Gresharti. A monster mass meeting was hold by striking coal miners at McKeesport to protest against the settlement of tho strike as arranged at Columbus. Tho Pittsburg district, it is said, will insist on * basis of 79 cents, instead of 69, as agreed upon. A Washington paper, Tuesday, announced tho engagement of Nellie GrantSartoris and Gen. H. K. Douglass, Adj.IGenoral of Maryland. Mrs. Sartoris will forfeit her income of 825,003 a year from her father-in-law's estate to her childfen. Iler oldest boy is nineteen, and is a student at Oxford. Workmen digging injo a mound at

Eagan, S. D., unearthed the remains of a race of prehistoric giants. A 1 tomb was uncovered lined with cement. In the tomb’s compartments were twenty-two male skeletons averaging eight feet in height. A rude altar and many bronze utensils were exposed. W. W. Brasie, assignee of the National Co-operative Building and Investment Association of Denver, says the concern will not pay 1 cent on the dollar. In August, 1892, W. A. Hemphill, after examining the books of the concern, reported that the assets wore 8121,000. When the assignment was made there was 871,000 liabilities and no assets. Assignee Brasie says he cannot find where the money went. The loss falls principally on poor depositors. The president of the association was William J. Smith, who, it issaid, is now conducting an association in Pittsburg.