Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

8 Republicans of the Thirteenth Illinois district took 159 ballots at Champaign without choosing a candidate. Hunry A. Bischoff, editor of the Black Diamond, at Chicago, and once a famous singer, committed suicide by shooting. Fire almost entirely destroyed the village of Edon, an Ohio town of 800 inhabitants. Eighty buildings were burned. It is estimated that thousands of acres of grain <in Minnesota and the Dakotas have been ruined by the excessive beat. In the presence of an .audience of five thousand, at Topeka, Kas., Mrs. Anna L. Diggs called Mrs. Mary E. a liar. Geo. M. Pullman is at his summer home at Alexandria Bay. N. Y. A dispatch to the Inter Ocean, Sunday, stated that the magnate is sick and refused to be interviewed. Lord Randolph Churchill is at a Chicago sanitarium undergoing treatment for the morphine habit, The distinguished English nobleman is accompanied by Lady Churchill. Justice Barrettr-in the New York Supreme Court, Thursday, granted a certificate of reasonable doubt in the case of Erastus Wiman. This acts as a stay of sentence and prevents tho commitment of Mr.'Wiman to the penitentiary. Millionaire Culver, of St. Louis, who has already done so much for Lake Maxinkuckee, is preparing to establish one of the finest military schools in the country there this fall. It will be opened September 34, in charge of a corps of the ablest instructors. Gen. Dan Macauley, at one time Mayor of Indianapolis, died at Manauga, Nicaragua, Friday, July 6. Gen. Macauley had been for skime time connected with the Nicaragua canal company, and was in that country on canal business when he died. Mrs. Macauley was visiting her sister at Indianapolis at the time of the General’s death. Gen. Macauley was buTied with military honors at Manatig 1 by order of president Zalaya.