Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Minneapolis had a 1500,000 fire on the 19th. Secretary Gresbamis sick and" confined to his bed. —■' : ; - California militia is"being rearmed with Martini rifles. The war on the. Bock Island Road in Indian Territory continues. American end of the big Anglo cable has been landed at Heart’s Content, N. F. New York’s umbrella trust is in a receiver's hands with liabilities of 11,300,000. Forest fires are raging in Isabella county, Michigan, and many people are homeless. Speaker Crisp was renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Third Georgia district. 3 The President ha 3 nominated David A. Wells, of Connecticut, to be Secretary of Legation at London. Edwin Traughber was strung up by t masked men near Russellville, Ky., Monday. Was a bad man Peter Thompson was killed and nineteen knocked senseless by lightning at New Orleans, Monday. A union of the University of Chicago and the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., is talked of. — Breckinridge’s Masonic lodge met, Monday night, considered his case, and, it is supposed, expelled him. By a cave-in of the Cumberland gap tunnel, Kentucky, one man was buried alive and many imprisoned. Marion Howard, colored murderer, was ■ taken from the court room at Scottsville, Ky., and hanged by a mob. Lockhart coal mines, Corona, Ala., blown up with dynamite, Monday, One killed. Miners are suspected. It is proposed to erect a monument to John Brown on the site of the historic en-gine-hou§n at Harper's Ferry. Three of the Longview, Tex., bank robbers were killed by deputy United States marshals at Eaglotown. I. T. —Crops are in need of rain throughout the Northern States, in lowa and Wisconsin corn is in a critical condition. Opponents of Colonel Breckinridge are endeavoring to induce Settle to withdraw to leave a clear Held for Owens. Three men who shot the postmaster at Somerset Center, Mich., while trying to - rob him, have been arrested at Jackson. One is dead, two will die and fifty are violently ill from eating poisoned ice cream at a West Union, 111., church social I Commonwealers encamped in the vicinity of Washington are in dire Straits for food, and desertions are dally taking place. Goods which had been stolen from stores by Spring Valley (Ill.) rioters, were placed on the sidewalks and gathered up by militiamen. The homes of James Butler and John Carter at Steel ton, Pa., were wrecked by dynamite. They had taken the places of men on strike. In a speech at Lexington,' Ky., candidate Settle confessed that gambling had nearly accomplished his mdtal destruction a number of years ago. Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, continues to issue the objectionable State warrants and says hc’H pay no attention to the Federal Government’s complaints and threats. In opposing assessments of the franchises of the Milwaukee Street, Railway Company, Vice-President Payne said (lie property, which fs bonded for $ 1 i,COO,COD. was not worth 3(500,000, Twenty banks and eighty leading business ..firms of Chicago on the 18th sent a telegram to the Senate and House demanding that Congress dispose of pending tariff legislation at once. A row is oirin St. Mary’s Polish Catholic church, Reading, Pa., and Father .lanausklewsicz has taken occasion to refer to a certain element in his congregation as dogs, rats, devils, cte. Warrants are * out for hisnrrest. A native of St, Louis, named Joseph D. Ginnockio, while visiting in Genoa, Italy, was arrested on a charge of desertion, and forced into the Italian army. The case will be carried before the State Department at Washington. Senator Quay is said to have eighty pages of his great tariff speech in type for the Congressional Record that har, not yet been delivered. If any possible opportunity occurs when the measure is reported baclrhe wilt deliver it or prepare a new one of equal length. . A bold attempt was made to wreck the • w6st bound express on the Big Four in the suburbs of Monday niglit. Three ties had been placed on tho track. The engine and train was also stoned by strikers and sympathizers at the same po'nt. Herr Done, the Manhoim tailor who Invented tho bullet-proof cloth so much talked of, is coming to this country and will give exhibition* in museums. He has made a new curias* which weighs only nine pounds, and this is the one he will wear while'making his exhibition tour. , - Three shocks of earthquake were felt at Memphis on tho ISth. The vibrations were from north to south. Tall buildings snd chandeliers swayed perceptibly and dishes and pictures rattled. Reports from Cairo, Fulton, Ky.. New Madrid antUnth■cr points throughout the Mississippi valley indicate that tho seizure was wide spread. •. Mgr. Satolli sustains the decision of "Bishop Wattcrson, of Columbus, 0., denying recognition to Catholic societies having liquor dealers and saloonkeepers at their head or among their officers, liis decision condemns the liquor traffic, and especially tho business as conducted in the United States, in strong language. Secretary Gresham has warned Japan against pursuing her present policy in Corea. His dispatch practically places the United States on the side of China and Russia In tho pending dispute. The warning has caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and certain correspondents hint at serious consequences and characterize Gresham's action as a grave blunder. Four soldiers were dead, Tuesday, as a result of the caisson explosion at Chicago. Three others were dying. Gen. 51 Lies. now thinks the explosion was caused bypowder leaking out of one of the scrapnel shells and becoming ignited by the jolting of the wheels. He does not pelleve that the ammunition box had been tampered with by dynamite fiends. Judge Cooley, the eminent constitutional lawyer of Ann Arbor, Mich., bas written a letter to President Cleveland ex•pressing unqualified satisfaction with •very step taken by the executive in vindication of the national authority and

restoration of law and order during th« strike. He regards the circumstances as a valuable lesson in constitutional construction. One hundred strikers charged with participation riot at the Pratt mines, where seven negroes- and deputies were slaughtered, are in jail at Birmingham, Ala. Among them is W. J. Kelso, whom the officers say they have positivt proof was the leader and chairman of the strikers’ meeting held in the woods, when it was decided to kill or be killed if necessary, to driye the negroes from the jnines, Gov. Hogg, of Texas, at Austin, on the 18th, was presented-with a gold watcli by officers of the State militia, and, in response, made a speech, in which ho took a gloomy view of the future. He predicted that within six weeks martial law would be declared in California, Kansas, Colorado and Illinois, and that the anarchists of Chicago would use dynamite and‘'bespatter the lofty buildings of the city with the hearts, lungs and livers of the citizens.” He alluded to President Cleveland having ordered the troops there, and Judge Cooley’s letter commendatory of tho act, and said he felt humiliated over it. as it was a dangerous invasion of-State rights and had not-been done before since 18(50. The Governor predicts a great revolution soon and possible dismemberment of the Republic, uuless a foreign war diverts attention from internal dissatisfaction.