Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Washington City is at last free from pommonwealers. .. The Corbett Jackson prize fight has been declared off. A rich gold find has been made at Musca. Col. The ore will average 8700 to the ton. 1 Fox hunters near Martinsburg, W. Va., Ifound the body of an infant hanging to a stout string tied to the limb of a tree. Drexel, Morgan & Co. bought the Louisville Southern railway . at auction at Louisville, on the 16th, for 51,000.090. There was a heavy rainfall throughout •Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and lowa. ■Sunday, which wiil grcatiy help the corn crop. President Cleveland left Washington for Buzzard's Bay. August 16. and will spend a week or ten days with his family at Gray Gables. Deputy Secretary of State Lindholm, of Michigan, who disappeared last March after embezzling State funds, has been captured in Sweden. The Whisky Trust is said to have borfgQwed 85,00ff,MQ in order to pay the tax on liquor now in bond before the new tariff law goes into effect. The commission appointed by Presilient Cleveland to investigate the recent strike difficulties held its first session, Wednesday, at Chicago. Jennie Finch, who was stolen by gypsies eighteen years ago, when she was ten years old, and has been mourned as dead, has returned to her home at Qrand Rapids. Ex-Sheriff Armstrong, of Covington, Ky., knowing that he was abou t to die, confessed to having forged his brother's name to fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of notes. The late Gen. Daniel Macauley took out 810,000 life insurance policy as late as March 26, just before his departure for Panama. The amount has just been paid to his widow. Large shipments of flour, ginseng, canned fruit, canned meats and other supplies for both China and Japan were made by the City of Pekin, which left San Francisco, Aug. 17. It was authoritatively stated, Tuesday, that President Cleveland would not sign the tariff blll but would allow it to become a law. The legal ten days’limit will expire on the 27th inst., after which, unless vetoed, the bill will be in force. Hon. John Quincy Adams, a greatgrandson of President John Quincy Adams, died at Quincy, Mass., Aug. 14. Mr. Adams was born at Quincy in 1834, and has filled many high offices. Originally a Republican, he left that party on account of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, and has acted independently in politics since that time. Numerous blunders have been discovered in the Senate tariff bill as passed and sent to the President. Diamonds will be on the free list unless an amendment is put throngh. Alcohol is also free for the arts and mixtures. Senator Hoar is charged with the responsibility for this. An amendment to correct the alcohol schedule was passed by the House, Thursday. Governor Waite has written an open letter to the Populist party of Colorado in which he strongly opposes fusion with the Democrats. In conclusion he says: “I have endeavored, to the best of my ability, to run the affairs of the State in the interest of the miners and laboring men. and so far as I could have stepped upon the aristocratic thieves and robbers who have stolen the State poor in previous administrations and even defrauded the school children of the State of nearly half a million dollars. If we cannot, after two years oFpower and after carrying the State, succeed again on our own platform and with our own men, and without looking for support outside the party organization. then the People’s party is premature and the American people, are not yet ready for reform.”