Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

A uew mint will be built at Philalielphia- . ..' ” ' : ' —Ptslight earthquake shocks have been felt ■ at Paducah, Ky. , ~7~ Kansas and Nebraska have been laid bare by hot winds. Seven deaths from sunstroke in New York city on the 29th.' U. S. cutter has seized six Spanish smugglers off Tampa, Fla. Jas. Mulligan, of Blaine-Mulligan letter fame, is dead in Boston. Wholesale naturalization frauds have been discovered at Rochester, N. Y. Archbishop Corrigan has indorsed Mgr. Satolli’s decision on the liquor question. Peaches are selling for 10 cents a basket in San Francisco. The market is glutted. Japan has officially notified the State Department of the difficulty with China By theclosing of four mills at Lawrence, Mass., Saturday, 3,000 hands are idle. Representative Boen, of Minnesota, has introduced a bill to abolish National banks. Chinese in large numbers are leaving New York for the mother Country to fight theJaps The House committee to investigate the Carnegie armor plate frauds are now at Homestead. Minister Denby, now in the United States, has been ordered to return to China at once. Coins bearing the date of 1410 have been nnearthed in an Indian mound near Savannah, N. Y. Archduke William 111, of Austria, was thrown from his saddle and killed, Sunday, in Vienna. 4Said that a big Baltimore distillery has been caught with 160,000 gallons of watered liquors. The big suit against the Pacific railroads will be dismissed by order of Attorney General Olney. Mayor Hopkins refused the American Railway Union permission to parade as a reception to President Debs. The Hawaiian royalist commission, representing Queen Liliuokalini, arrived »t Washington on the 31st ult. The Michigan Republican State convention at Detroit, Tuesday, renominated Bov. Rich by a large majority. Big Chinese laundry trust, intended jto swallow all smaller concerns, was incorporated in New York, Monday. fl Incomplete returns of the election in Tennessee. Aug. 2, indicate a Democratic najority of 15,000 on a light vote. The official report of the caisson explosion at Chicago says it was caused by t defective shell with a loose plunger. <> Henry Dohme shot and killed his wife it Chicago and fatally wounded himself Jealousy is said to have caused the crime. Bill Tequancy. an Indian, while lodged hjail for the night at Roslyn. Wash., >et fire to his cell and was burned to a srlsp, It is estimated that the cotton crop will se from 9.6 >O.OOO to 8,500 0* 0 bales, accordmg to conditions between now and the picking. An attempt was made to blow np a Burlington engine at Chicago, Saturday tight, with dynamite. Two men were lerlously Injured. An explosion of “ruddinite” in a stone rard at Chicago, on the 31st, resulted in lhe death of three persons and the serious Injury of two others. GoV. McKinlev and Gov. Rich, of Michigan, are making a tour .es the Northern lakes, and have received much attention tt several cities en route. Three missing children of J. W. Ganion, Hartford, Conn., were found dead in a freight caboose, Sunday, not 300 feet from lheir home. Asphyxiation. t Word has been received that the vessel >f the Wellman Arctic expedition has been lost, but the crew escaped andjs tow making its way northward. The Senate committee investigating the mgar trust have brought in a report stating that there was no evidence to sustain lhe charges made against Senators. 4 “Gen.” Coxey has appealed to Congress, through the press, for aid for his four hundred starving followers until supplies aow en route, as he claims, 'can reach them. W. H. Hale, of “Gun Wa" Chinese medicine fame, was again found guilty by a jury at Denver, Aug. 1. He was charged with using the mails with intent to defraud. i A cyclone at Manchester. N. H., on the !9th, caused 130 >,OOO damage. The same itorm is believed to have touched Richleld Springs, N. Y., where great damage resulted. Tariff reform Democrats of Frederick sounty, Md„ at a meeting July 30, approved the policy of the President and passed a resolution asking Senator Gorman to resign. The President has sent to Congress another installment of Hawaiian correspondence, the most important feature of which is Minister Willis’s recognition of the new Republic. Secretary Smiley, of the Minnesota Democratic State Central Committee, has resigned because the Committee declined to Indorse the President and stand by the platform of the party. Rob Roy and Frank Egan, two of the "“Morrill ton band of boy bandits, have been captored eight miles below Little Kock, ■ Ark., heading for New Orleans, in a house boat loaded with plunder Corn sold at 51c on the Chicago Board of Trade. Aug. 2. Wheat, No. 2 hard, brought only This is only the second lime in thirty-two years that corn was quoted higher than wheat. Capt. Thomas Fullerton, Republican nominee for Congress in the Eleventh Illinois District, died suddenly from heart disease at Fairbury, 111., Aug. 2. Capt. Fullerton's home was at Ottawa. It is reported that the Chinese govern-, rnent, through the British government,

has asked President Cleveland to act as mediator between China and Japan, and ■* that the President has consented. Ghouls attempted to rob the grave of Andrew Jackson at “The Hermitage,” twelve miles from Nashville, Tenn.. Wednesday night, but were frightened away before accomplishing their object. Hurry Feathers, a son of James Feathers, of Carthage. 8. D„ accidentally shot and fatally injured his father’s hired man. Harn was so frightened at the accident that he took poison, dying shortly afterward. Los Angeles. Cal., was shaken up iy an earthquake. Sunday evening, July 29th. All of southern California was mdre or J • /

less disturbed. A huge meteor also 11 Ins minated the sky immediately after thd shock had passed. Twenty-five hundred men went to work at the Illinois Steel Company plant, Monday. The works had been closed down since the strike began. Employment will be given to 1.000 more workmen before the end of the week. Chiko, the big chimpahzee, died at Dayton, 0.. July 26. The body "lay in state” at the museum in Central Park, New York, on the 31st and was viewed by thousands of people. Chiko looked more human in death than he did in life. 5 The Florida Democratic State convention met at Jacksonville, Aug. 2, and nominated a. candidate for Judge of th<i Supremo Court. The platform indorse) the policy of President Cleveland and condemns the inaction and course of thq Senate.

United States Judge Ricks is charged by the Cleveland Central Labor Union with fraud and it is alleged tnat he is short in his accounts $1,558.75. Repres ntative Johnson will see that Judge Ricks is investigated by the Department of Justice. Major E. W. Halford (“Lige”), now stationed at Omaha, was dangerously injured in a runaway accident on the 31st. Mr. Halford was alone at the time, driving a team of colts that became unmanageable. Surgeons think he has a chance for recovery unless blood-poison should set in. Charles Johnson, a New York man, went to Rock Island. Tenn., won the affections of Miss Austin and married her, in spite of the opposition of the girl’s father. Within a month Johnson took his bride for a drive, on July 24, and deliberately drove the horse over a precipice, jumping out in time to save himself. Mrs.. Johnson was rescued in an unconscious condition, and will recover. Johnson escaped, but will be lynched if caught. Judge Joseph Holt, at one time Judge Advocate General of the Army and Acting Secretary of War, died at Washington. Aug. 1. He was appointed to the position of Judge Advocate General of the Army by President Lincoln in 1862, and was a conspicuous figure at the capital during the war and for some years afterward.

A vineyard near Fresno, Cal., has become infected with some unknown poison which causes apparently well people to topple over with noart disease. Three personshave died at the vineyard since July 23 of paralysis of the heart. The place has been abandoned. Physicians are greatly puzzled. San Francisco custom-house inspectors seized seventy-five cans of opium on the coasting steamer City of Pueblo. Sunday night. No arrests were made. The smugglers are known to the authorities, however, and it is expected that the band of which they are a part, as a result of the seizure, will all be arrested. Game Warden Gallicatte, of Colorado, has been notified that as usual at this season of the year a band of one hundred Navajos from Utah are ruthlessly slaughtering deer for their hides in tho western part of Montrose county. As the Indians are off their reservation they are subject to civil law and deputies have been sent to arrest them. Gov. Tillman and Senator Butler, fitter a hot political discussion at Union, S. C., on the 31st. met on a train and became involved in a personal quarrel in the course of which they called each other “one-legged,”"one-eyed”“ liars,” “not afraid of you,” etc. They gave each other notice that they were prepared to fight whenever it suited tho challenger's convenience. A cask of gold from New York, valued at $50,000, was stolen while in transit from Havre to Paris. Forty casks, valued at $2,060,000, arrived at Havre by steamer. All were believed to have been- unloaded, but when the casks were counted at Paris only thirty-nine appeared. The cask weighed two hundred pounds and was difficult to handle. There is rio clue.

- A grand jury at Chicago, on the 30th, returned a report stating that gamblinn was prevalent throughout the city under practical police protection. A list ot places where games are carried on was given. No indictments were returned because the jury was advised by the prosecutor that sufficient evidence to secure convictions would be difficult to procure. The graphic account of tho cruel religious “rites” of-the “penitents”—a fanatical sect existing in New Mexico—recently published in Harper’s Weekly with illustrations, was reproduced in tho Taos Valley (N. M..) Herald and Miner. Th office was tnobbod by a band of suppos* d “penitents,” and the editor, C. E. Griffith, was badly used up. Ho arrived at Tret Piedras, N. M., Aug. 2. iu a pitiable dition, having walked forty miles. An attempt was made to “hold up” a ’Frisco train thirty miles out from tt. Louis, Thursday night, by one masked robber. Tho express messenger prove! game and fired on the intruder and in return was wounded in tbe shoulder and hand. The bandit then escaped. The train then proceeded a short distancj when a terrific "explosion took place, supposed to have been caused by dynamite The engine was damaged, but nobody wai htrt.

The lowa Democratic State convention convened at Des Moines, Aug. 1. Ex-Gov. Bales was made permanent chairman. On tf.king the chair Gov. Boies made a lengthy address, in which ho said that 8 crisis had been reached in the history o| the Democratic party, and claimed that the party was committed to a revenue tariff and to equal and unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver. He condemned sympathy strikes in strong language. A State ticket was nominated, headed by H. 11. Dale for Secretary ql ’State. The platform reaffirms the National platform of 1892, and fully endorses Cleveland’s administration. A statement issued by the Controller o! the Currency shows the total amount of national bank notes outstanding to br 1207,445, 480. an increase in total circulation for the month of 1180.182, and for th* . year of 823,789,569. The amount of circulation outstanding against ’bonds la 8181,055,934. an increase for the month of 8487. 350 and for the year of 817.834,441. Th* amount of lawful money on deposit to secure circulation Is shown to be 826,389.555 a decre ise of 83(4,168 for the month and ai increase for the year of 85.954.938. Th, amount of United States registered bond, on deposit to sedure circulation notes if 8202.281.000. and they secure public deposits of 814.725,000. The Pullman company has refused te employ any labor agitators. The work) have resumed with a limited force.