Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Oregon losses as result of floods were 1600.000. Galvin’s army may now march from Washington to the Pacific slope. A cyclone toyed with Chadron,. Neb.. Tuesday, killed one man and damaged much property. Randall's army reached Pittsburg. Thursday, and were permitted to march through thestreetsT '— Chief of Police Kent, of Champaign, 111., has been arrested for whipping a negro afflicted with smallpox. Ex-Senator Perkins, of Kansas, died at Washington, Wednesday. His death was due to cholera morbus. John J. Ingalls has received an offer to become editor-in-chief of an important magazine published in New York. Miss Frances Wlllayd, the President of the World’s AV. C. T. IT., arrived at New York, from England. Wednesday. A bridge on the Wheeling & Lake Erie road near Massilon, 0., was blown up with giant powder. Monday, by strikers. More than two thousand men are now engaged in the ore miners’ strike in Michigan and the movement is constantly growing. A big crowd and a brass band welcomed Coxey, of commonweal fame, on his return to Massillon, He proposes to make a lecture tour. The Coxeyites imprisoned at Ft. Sidney made a break for li-berty, Tuesday. Many of the wealers were clubbed severely aud none escaped. “Gen.” Kelley and “Col.” Baker were arrested at Louisville, Friday afternoon, and placed under 52,500 bonds. They were ch arged with vagrancy.— Rev. Dr. Paxton, of New York, has been fined 510 for failure- to return the marriage certificate of W. C. P. Breckinridge at the proper time. Frank Clark, bunco steerer. told the Lexow, committee, New York, Tuesday, that the faro banks paid *IOO per week to the police for protection. It is reported at Kansas City that 10,000 Kansas miners may engage in a sympathetic strike ta farce a ■settlement in JJis- ( souri and the Indian Territory. Three Coxeyites drank some Kentucky whisky at Henderson and then got into a fight on a boat. Two fell into the river and were immediately drowned. The American whaling bark James Allen has been wrecked in Bering sea. The captain and the first mate were drowned and others of the crew are missing. Too much rain in Kansas and Indian Territory for the wheat. Harvesting has been impossible, almost, and the wheat in shock in many cases has been ruined. The homeopathists,in session at Denver, have resolved to erect a monument to Hahnemann to cost *50,000. It will be erected in Washington and unveiled in 1896.

Colonel Breckinridge’S son. Desha, says his father has received and is considering an invitation to deliver the annual Fourth of July oration in Tammany Hall this year. • _ 6 The McShane Manufacturing Company, of Baltimore, Wednesday, notified its 1,000 employes that owing to its improved business their wages would fie raised 10 per cent. ■Populace nominations for Congressmen: Fifteenth Illinois district, J. M. Grier; North Dakota, Walter Muir; Ninth Kentucky,John GrßFalr; Fourth, Maine, C. D. Chapman. Gov. Flower told a Gloverville, N. Y., audience that tariff tinkering caused the present depression and that, “If anybody in fifty years attempts to tinker with the tariff, he will get killed.” Editor Brown, of Kingman, Kas., opposed woman’s suffrage at the Populist State convention. Arriving home a mob dressed him in a Mother Hubbard gown and sunbonnet and marched him through the streets, The Peary auxiliary expedition on board the steamer Portia left Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday. The expedition Is headed by Henry G. Bryant, the youngest man who ever attempted to lead a band of explorers into the far north. Erastus Wiman, the one-time millionaire and capitalist, found guilty of forgery at New York last week, was sentenced, Wednesday, by Judge Ingraham, to five years and six months imprisonment in Sing Sing penitentiary. Omaha was visited by the strongest gale experienced in two years, Wednesday night. The wind reached a velocity of forty miles an hour and much damage was done. The storm was very severe at Lincoln and at several places in South Dakota. A strike of fabulous richness has been made in the Pike's Peak mine, Colo. The new find consists of an eight-inch streak of decomposed quartz and talc, which averages sixty ounces of gold to the ton. being much the same character as the other three veins found in the property. Pike’s Peak is by far the richest gold property iiscovered In Cripple Creek. Prendergast was taken into court at Chicago, Wednesday, to ba tried for insanity. The work of securing a jury was begun. Prendergast, who was present, made one of his rambling speeches and asked the court to dispense with a jury. He objected to his counsel and said he had authorized no one to represent him. 4 The gold reserve, Thursday, was 861,703,047. or 1735,330 lower than ever before in its history. On Feb. 2, 1894, just previous to the bond Issue, the reserve reached 865,438,377, the lower point up to that time, and the cash balance was 883,745,102. The cash balance was 8115,263,715, or 831,518,612 greater than on Feb. 1. Informer Sill was still being examined by the Senate committee investigating the Carnegie fraudulent armor plates, Tueslay. Chairman Cummings has summed un the specific irregularities in the reports as pointed ont by Sill during the laborious three days’ examination. Mr. Cummings lays that about 50J sheets wore examined ind out of this number only twenty were found free from alteration. A Washington-special Jnne 19, states that the story of an alleged anarchist plot to blow up the Government buildings is aow regarded as a “fake.” It is believed that the whole storv was concocted by one Do M atters, who is regarded by the police is unworthy of confidence. Common wealer Jaxon is indignant that his name should aave been connected with the affair, but bis landlady thinks ho helped to write the itory. Judge Head of tho Alabama Supremo Court, has just decided an exceptionally ntereating case, involving money left by

a Catholic to be expended in masses. The decision fayors the contesting heirs, holding that the “bequest was void, in that there no living beneficiary of the trust intended to be created; that the soul of a dead man could not be a beneficiary, being a nonentity in the contemplationof the law.” LT7 ""Z

Ex-Minister to Germany, died at his home at Tea Neck, N. J., Sunday morning at 2 o’clock. Mr. Phelps was a scion of one of the oldest New England- families, and frequently spoke-of his direct descent, on the paternal side, from William Phelps, brother of the private secretary of Oliver Cromwell. His father, John J. Phelps, was a prominent mere I’ant 1 ’ant in—-New-York city, and was the first president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad. William Walter Phelps was born in New York city August 24, =1839? At the time of his death Mr. Phelps was Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey. Mr. Phelps was very wealthy and was also noted for his generosity to his friends.

Of Pittsburg, shot himself with suicidal intent at his residence in Washington, Saturday, and soon afterdied. Col. Bayne was for many years an intimate friend of the lato James G. Blaine, but owing to personal differences they became estranged long before the death of the “Plumed Knight,” Ex-Speaker Reed was one of Mr. Bayne's most intimate friends and was much affected by his death. Mr. Bayne’s only known reason for suicide was that ho feared consumption, having recently suffered from hemorrhages. Senator Sherman was Warmly congratulated on the floor of the Senate, Saturday, by many of his associates on the fact that on that day he had com pletod a term of> service in the Senate equal in length to that of Senator Benton. The service of Senator Benton had heretofore held first rank in duration, covering the period from Dee. 6, 1821, to March 3, 1851, making twenty-nine years two months and twenty-seven days. Cel. A L. Conger, of Ohio, a prominent Republican, in an interview at New York, Tuesday, said the McKinley bill should be modified in accordance with the changed conditions of business. He stated that the people of Ohio delighted to honor McKinley but were not in favor of his nomination for the Presidency, because of his extreme high protective ideas. Mr. Conger thought the bill now before the Senate, with the Senate amendments, would be regarded by the people out his way as more satisfactory than the McKinley law, because it would reduce tariff rates instead of increasing them. Another reason he gave for the difficulty which Governor McKinley would find in obtaining the support of the Ohio delegation in the next Republican National convention was that in the distribution of patronage in Ohio much dissatisfaction had been created, and the opposition to him as a Presidential candidate had been increased.

Republican congressional nominee in the Ninth Indiana district. Mr. Ilanly is but thirty-one years old, and is the youngest man nominated for congress in this State since 1854, when Hon, Will Cumback was elected to the House at the age of twentyfive. Mr. Hanly came to Marion county in 1879 from Illinois, walking the entire distance. He is emphatically a self-made man and has attained his present enviable prominence through his untiring energy in overcoming almost insurmountable obstacles. The New York Times. Wednesday, created a great sensation by directly charging Senator Aldrich with being a tool of the sugar trust. Senator Aldrich is a Republican, and has been regarded as a leader of the minority in fighting the tariff bill. The Times shows that Secretary Searles of the sugar trust came to the rescue of Senator Aldrich when he was about to fail in his reorganization scheme of the Providence street railroads and that tho trust people advanced him *1,509,000 to carry out the scheme andfloat tho watered stock. This assistance was rendered by the trust. The Times says this was done because Aldrich had taken care of the sugar trust in the McKinley bill by giving the refiners cent protection. Hong-Kong advices under date of May 24, received at San Francisco, June H), state that the great plague is still raging. The death rate at Canton, where the disease first became epidemic; is stated to average more than 200 a day.

WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS,

EX-REPRESENTATIVE BAYNE,

J. FRANK HANLY,