Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The treasury gold reserve is <fown to 152,820,589. Over 30,000 foreigners left New York, ast month. ~ . •" r T~\ ~ \ Gold shipments to Europe, Saturday, amounted to $1,750,000. 2 Scranton, Pa., postoffice was robbed of FB,OOO in stamps, Saturday. Grasshoppers are eating up crops in Shelby county. Tennessee. President Cleveland has officially rec agnized the Republic of Hawaii. Burglars stole a ton of butter from the Aurora, 111., creamery, on the 6thOf the 938 deaths in New York last week, fifty-one were due directly to the - heat. - ----- i Queen Lil’s representatives have been yiven a cold shoulder by Secretary Sresham. Pittsburg is making elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the G. A. R. grand encampment. Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, has an vounced his intention of returning to the United States in October Forest fires arestttlragingin northern Wisconsin and great damage is being done to hay and cranberry marshes. Baltimore will have a gigantic World’s Fair in 1897. At least $5,000,000 will be sxpended to make it a success. The sealing schooner Bowhead, thirtyfix days from Hakodat, arrived at San Francisco with a catch of 1,404 skins. The farm house of S. Ostenson near Dover, Minn., burned Aug. 6. Mr. Ostenson and four children were cremated. The centennial celebration at Defiance, 0., began Aug. 8 and continued three lays. Gov. McKinley was in attendance. William P. Daniels, age eight, son of Senator Daniels of West Virginia, was killed by being dragged by a horse, Monday. The suits of the United States against the Southern Pacific railroad have been iismissed, by order of Attorney-General Olney. ,5A Rock Island passenger train was wrecked near Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 8. Eight aersons were killed and a score, seriously wounded.

As a result of a long standing feud, leorgo Richardson, a prominent farmer near Galena, 111., was murdered by his brother Mark, The Slavick coke burners of Pennsylrania will form a colony in Arkansas. Fifty thousand acres of land have already teen purchased. H. H. Warner, the patent medicine nan, has returned from Europe penniless, saving lost the remainder of his fortune st Monte Carlo. The tariff conference fails to progress io far as can be learned from the press lispatches. Apparently a disagreement w ill be reported. The residence of George Johnson, of Lodi, S. D„ was destroyed by fire Aug. ~h—Two sons, aged fourteen and twenty, ost their lives in the flames. Governor Crounse, of Nebraska,hasbeen petitioned to convene the legislature, that measures may be taken to relieve the irought-stricken sections of the State. Erlends of Colonel Breckinridge have polled the Ashland district and claim ho will be nominated by a vote which will squal that of his opponents combined. Elbridge Walker, of/Newton, Mass., lied from the blood poisoning that folowed the removal of a pimple by a harper who shaved him in a careless manner. The steamer Park Bluff, with 400 exiursionists aboard, struck a rock in the Mississippi off Keokuk and sank. Owing ;o the low water all were enabled to reach shore. The Baakos Wire Nail Works of Cleveland, O.,the largest concern of the kind in the country, which has been idle for sevsral months, resumed work with a big force of men. State Auditor Gore, in turning the affairs of the Illinois Building and Loan association over to the attorney general,said that its methods were deceptive, if not, indeed, fraudulent.

At the West Side ball park, Chicago, Sunday, a fire started in the grand stand Irom the carelessness of a cigarette smoker. A panic ensued and many people were painfully injured. 5 Gen. James B. Weaver, the Populist candidate, was indored by the Democratic congressional convention at Council Bluffs, which declared for free coinage and arbitration of labor disputes. Mr. Walker, of Oelwein, lowa, had a recipe for a cooling summer drink filled ata drug store. The preparation contained tartaric acid. Too much was used and three children died from the effects. The entire Democratic ticket was sleeted in Alabama, Aug. 6. Incomplete returns indicate Democratic gains. Oates for Governor will have a majority of 30,000 to 50,000 over Kolb the fusion candidate. The legislature will be Democratic by a jafe majority. i Detectives have made a big haul of :ounterfeiters at Bethel, Conn. Thousands of dollars in spurious bank notes, plates, ink and fibrous paper were secured. The press has not been found Three arrests have been made, but it is noped that the balance of the gang will be corralled. The Vigilant vanquished two of the jest English yachts in the regatta at 'owes, Isle of Wight, Aug, 6. George lould, Howard Gould and Lord Dunraen were on board the Vigilant during he race. Emperor William of Germany ■itnessed the race from the royal yacht lohcnzollern and afterward visited Queen ictorla at Osborne. A hyena, which is supposed to have es,ped from Sells Bros.’ menafgerie when it ipeared at Paris, 111., and a bear which td been partially tamed by a physician Robinson, 111., are lurking in the Sugar eek bottoms, across the Wabash river

tm Terre Haute. The bear was first in three weeks ago near Terre Haute icn It killed a small hog in a barnyard, together the hyena has killed seven ?s which attacked it, and two have aljeen killed by the bear. enator Voorhees, in an interview, g. 6, said that theft) ought to belittle iculty in the tariff conference reachan agreement. Mr. Voorhees regards President’s letter as an aid to acomtnlse; said the sugar question was now itlcally out of the way; thought the Ute should concede free coal and Iron. interview was the subject of much ment and Is regarded as significant of ange in the policy of Mr. Voorhees, has until now been regarded as an

opponent of the administration on the tariff question. Senator Gorman is quoted as having said that Voorhees was too sick-to- know his own mind. Mr. Voorhees is still confined to his room but is better. FOREIGN, Cholera is increasing in Galicia. Smallpox is epidemic at Milwaukee. 4 Thirty anarchists of Paris are on Arial. Dr. Cornelius Herz, the Panama lobbyist, was sentenced to five years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 3,000 francs. Gen. Caceras has taken his seat as president of Peru. Six people were killed by an earthquake at Palermo, Sicily, Aug. 8. 2 Five new cases of cholera and three deaths from that disease have ebeen reported from Mastericht since Saturday last. Three shocks of earthquake were felt at Memphis, Aug. 10. Windows rattled and tall buildings swayed but no damage resulted. Reports from the Rio Grande do sul say that the insurgents have been surrounded near that place and the situation is desperate. English newspapers,sent to France by mail or otherwise are examined by the I 1 reneh police in order to see if they contain infringements of the anti-anarchist law. The scaler Viva has arrived at Victoria, twenty-six days from Hakodat, with 20,000 skins aboard, the catches of Victoria schooners. M. Turpin has become disgusted with France’s lack of appreciation of his inventions, and has written to Emperor William offering his inventions to Germany. ; Jule Deutril De Rhinos, the eminent French explorer, has been murdered at Thibet and thrown into the river. The French envoy to China has addressed a protest to the government. Prospectors have sold a syndicate 3,55 G claims situated about Buluwayo, formerly the headquarters of the late King Lobengula. In all, 16.500 claims have been registered. Many Americans are concerned in these land transactions.

Caserio Santo Geronimo, the assassin of President Carnot, has persisted in his refusal to make an appeal to the Court of Cassation, and the time of appeal having elapsed, the papers were sent to Paris, Tuesday, for the signature of President Cassimer-Perier, fixing his execution for Aug. 16. 5 Acting under instructions from toe home government, the commander of the Italian forces at' Massowah, Egypt,Hs erecting a prison capable of holding 2,000 convicts. To this prison anarchists who are proved to be dangerous to society will be sent. . Six anarchists were arrested while holding a secret conference at Rome, It is estimated that 2,000 anarchists, who weie arrested in the raids of the last two months, will be deported, A group of fifty has already been sent to Naples to embark for Massowah in the Red Sea.

Details of the riots at Quebec, Aug. 5, received by mail at New York, Aug, 9, state that Protestant missions in different parts of the city were wrecked. The mob was altogether French-Canadian. The Irish Catholics took no part. The mob was cowardly in the extreme and are believed to have been incited by infl amatory utterances of a French Catholic newspaper which described a Baptist mission as a Salvation Army barracks. The mission was opened for the first time on the day it was wrecked. The damage to property is heavy, and the terrorized citizens know not what to do. The inadequacy of the police force, or its unwillingness to act, creats general uneasiness. Not a single person has been either arrested or reported. The whole police force is kept under arms, and the leading English speaking papers demand that military be called out if the police do no better.