Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The gold reserve now amounts to >58,345,725. Madeline Pollard ascended Pike’s Peak on the 26th. California militia is being reafmedwith Martini rifles. All the potteries at East Liverpool, 0., resumed on the 23d. A commonweal division was driven out of Clyde, O„ on the 23d. Extensive forest fires in northern Minnesota have caused great loss. Postmaster Leonard, of Boise, Ida., has skipped, leaving a shortage of >7,600. J. G. Cannon was renominated for Congress in the Twelfth Illinois district. 4 The ’President signed the bill admit ting Utah to Statehood, Tuesday night. War now seems inevitable between China and Japan because of the Corean troubles.

Girl, match and curling iron caused a loss by fire of >176,00) in El Paso, 111., Thursday. *Pro f n ssorT’alb, of Vi enna, predicts that New York will be destroyed by earthquake on August 16. Two masked men “held up” a Santa Fe train, near Red Oak, Okla,, and got away with their plunder. The next reunion of the Army of Cumberland will be at the dedication of Chickamauga Park, next year. ■ Thirty acres of ground were torn up near Coffeyville,Jvan., by the unaccountable explosion of a gas well. Republicans of North Dakota have nominated Roger Allen for Governor and M. G. Johnson for Congress. Two persons perished in a burning restaurant at St. Louis. Fire started from an explosion of a gasoline stove. Judge Lyman Trumbull, of Chicago, declined to serve on the labor commission because of ill health and old age. Four persons were drowned at Otsego lake, near Cooperstown, N. Y\, on the 23d, by the capsizing of a rowboat. “Gen.” Coxey is out with a new scheme. He thinks the people should- compel the Government to buy the railroads. Two masked men held up a stage load of women, and shot and killed the driver on the Mt. Hood line in Oregon. — The Wisconsin Republican convention at Milwaukee, Thursday, nominated Maj. William Upham, of Milwaukee, for Governor.

War is threatened in a Polish Catholic church at Buffalo, N. Y., because Bishop Ryan has deposed Father Zaroczny, the priest. 6Two society women of Lockport, N. Y., gave thirty-six pieces of skin from their limbs to be used in grafting upon a child’s wounds. C. W. Mowbray, the English anarchist, spoke in Clarendon hall. New York, Monday night. lie advocated the removal of, capitalists. Three men were instantly killed, and three seriously injured by the breaking of an elevator drum in a brewery at New York, on the 21th. 4 Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, of this country, has left St. Petersburg for the interior of Russia to inquire into the condition of Russian Polish Jews. 4Wm. Melville, correspondence clerk of the Bank of California, at San Francisco, has confessed that during thirteen years he has robbed the bank of $35,000. Minnie Palmer, the actress, testifying in her suit for divorce against her husband, J. R. Rogers, at London, said she left him because he threatened to cut her throat. ~ : ——-— During the investigation of the acts of Warden Chase, of the Kansas penitentiary, he had a quarrel with Judge O’Donnell, which ended in a general fight in the court room. Thomas B. Reed, of the First congressional district of Maine, and IL A. Cooper, of the First congressional district of Wisconsin, have been renominated by the Republicans. • South Carolina State dispensaries will be reopened by Gov. Tillman who alleges a technical error in the recent Supreme Court decision holding the dispensary law' unconstitutional. The sub-committee on immigration has reported favorably on Representative Loer hart’s bill forbidding the employmentin the United States of persons who retain foreign residence. In a dispute over alleged scandalous remarks by Rev. Mr. Platt, at Ivory’s Ferry, Ark., on the 21st, knives, pistols and Win chesters were used as arguments. Platt was killed and a number of others injured. Gov. Flower has commuted the sentence of Elizabeth Halliday, the murder ess of Monticello. N. Y.. to imprisonment for life. Mrs. Halliday was sentenced to electrocution by the jury in spite of the strong evidence of her insanityThe President, on the 25th. formally appointed as commissioners to investigate the controversies between certain railroads and their employes, Carroll D. Wright, John I) Kernan of New York, and Nicholas E. Worthington, of Peoria, Illinois.

H. J. Bemis, of the Hotel Richelieu, Chicago, holds an option on the French Lick Springs property for 870,000. He proposes to form a company with $1(X),000 paid-up capital stock, and use $30,009 in improvements. If he succeeds the Springs ■will be converted into an American Carlsbad. 0 Robert Chain, an eighteen-year-oid boy, living near Lagonda, O„ was poisoned several days ago about the face and head by coming in contact with poison ivy. Both eyes swelled shut, and the ball of the right eye burst, the contents running out. It is feared he will go permanently blind. Representative Tucker, of Virginia, the author and champion of the resolution for „a constitutional amendment to elect United States Senators by direct vote of the people, which passed the House, Saturday, is sanguine that the Senate will also pass the resolution and the necessary three-fourths of the States will give their assent necessary to make it effective, By the burning of a livery stable at Washington, D. C., on the 25th, three men were killed and 205 horses burned to death. Several firemen were Seriously injured. The Adams Express Co’s stables adjoined the livery barns and were also consumed, but all of the horses, 150 in number, were taken out in safety. I “Honest” Dick Tate, the defaulting State treasurer of Kentucky, has been lotated in Japan, by Ensign Rodman, of the United States Navy. Mr. Tate is broken In health and can not live long. His bondsmen have paid the last installment

of his defalcation and will try to induce Tate to return and tell who were his' partners in crime. The Republican State Convention of Illinois convened at’ Springfield on the 25th and nominated a State ticket headed by Henry Wulff, of Chicago, for State Treasurer. The proposition to nominate a candidate for United States Senator was voted down. The regulation orthodox Republican platform was adopted with the addition of a severe condemnation of Gov. Altgeld and reference to other local affairs.

Gov. Waite, in a speech at on the 23d, denounced President Cleveland’s action in the Chicago riots as a clear usurpation of power. The Governor quoted sec. 4, art. 4 of the Constitution in jmpport of his position. He maintained that the eon tent ion that a strike on a railroad was an interruption of commerce Would apply equally to a factory and that manufacturers would soon demand Federal troops to compel men to work forso cents a day. Experts have unearthed tremendous frauds in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa -Ea accoiiDts, There is an apparent shortage of >7,(0),000, but conservative men think it can hardly reach more than 54.010,000. These facts were brought out by the reorganization committee which mot at New York, Saturday. July 21. It is supposed that the bulk of the money has gone for rebates to shippers, which is a violation of the Inter-State commerce act. The financial statement of the Atchison system for the first two weeks of July show a decrease in the earnings of >819,-493.88,-but thisis- principally due to the strike. . , ? Vice President Stevenson was at Bloomington, 111., on the 24th, to settle trouble between the miners and a company of which he is President. The strike was fully discussed. The miners agreed to resume work at the old rates provided they were given a concession of fifty cents a ton on coal for their own use and required to do but six feet of “brushing” instead of seven. Then tlie meeting adjourned to the shaft and the brushing question was looked into and it was decided that seven feet of “brushing” must be done. The miners held a meeting and agreed to recede from the requirement of reduction of “brushing” anOTthe strike was iieelare ’ off, the miners agreeing to the old sea | and the company to furnishing coal Aw minors at reduced rates. Mr. Stevenson said that ho was not at all opposed to the union, and that he was not at all opposed to taking the men back as union men. There has been no hard feeling whatever between the men and the company throughout the strike. Gozo Tateno, Japanese Minister to Washington, has been recalled to Japan, and Mr. Kukino, an experienced diplomate, has been appointed to succeed him. This change is made on account of dissatisfaction at the manner in which Minister Tateno has conducted the negotiations with the United States Government looking to the modification of the extraterritorial treaties.