Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the poetess, died at Isle of Shoals, N. H., Aug. 27. Senator Gorman’s health is much impaired, and his friends are alarmed. Three people lost their lives in a New York tenement house fire, Wednesday. Mr. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is visiting Andrew Carnegie at Cluny Castle. Mgr. Satollf. the Pope’s legate in this country, will return to Rome at the close of this year. v * The Tillman forces were generally successful jn the South Carolina primary elections. Tuesday. * The little town of Vesper, Wls;, was completely wiped out by fire, the loss being about $15,000. Several nuggots.of gold worth six dollars each were found in the Brown county gold mines last week. President Cleveland left Washington, Wednesday, to join his family at Gray Gables. Buzzard’s Bay. For the three days ending Aug. 31, the receipts at the New York custom house ■ , , „ „ - »_ Forest fires continue to rage in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, and in the former are endangered. -2-Levi P. Morton has arrived home from Europe. He will probably bo tlie Repub-, lican candidate for Governor of New York. Mr. Shunichiro Kurino, the new Japanese minister, arrived in Washington, Monday, and was formally presented to the President, Tuesday. A parachute with which Alonzo Kendall was descending at Schoolcraft, Mich., was punctured by a sandbag from the balloon and the aeronaut was killed. The National Encampment Knights o Pythias opened at Washington, Monday Indiana had the largest representation on the ground, eight hundred having already arrived.

t-Dr, Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday at Beverly Farms, Mass., Aug. 29. The venerable poet is in good health and says he is “eighty-five years young.” Hon. W. C. Owens, candidate against W. G. I*. Breckinridge for the Democratic Congressional nomination in the- Lexington. Ky., district, was hanged in efligy at Richmond. Ky., Wednesday night. Judge Bartlett, of the Supreme Court of New York, lias decided that public school teachers can enforce the regulations preventing the attendance of children who have not been vaccinated. Further investigation of the death of Capt. Edward W. Nicholson, at Washington, leads the officials to the conclusion that it was a case of accidental shooting and not suicide as was at first believed.

The War Department has granted a discharge to Grover Flint, a private in A Troop of the United States Cavalry, stationed at Ft. Meyer, to allow him to became the possessor of a fortune estimated at ?50i),o<K). 4Frederick Walker, of Riverdale, 111., while in the vicinity of Hammond, making his way to Wolf lake, was assaulted by footpads, who knocked him insensible with a coupling pin and robbed him of SIOO and his shotgun. A Washington dispatch, Aug. 30, states that Senator Voorhoes is in very bad health. It is understood that Senator Gorman will use his influence, to elect Congressman Bynum to succeed Voorhees In the United States Senate. Miss Mary Desha, sister-in-law to W. C. P. Breckinridge, has issued an address to the people of her district, denouncing his candinacy, and calling upon voters to oppose. Ilis election, she says, would bo a lasting disgraco to the State. The whisky trust officials are accused of “rigging” the market for their personal gain during the past few days, and in doing so lot the interests of the company suffer. It is said that some of them have made $1,000,000 by speculating in their own stock during the past week. A desperate riot occurred on Ashland avenue, Chicago, Tuesday night. One man was instantly killed, two were fatally hurt, and four men and one woman seriously injured. The trouble originated from an attempt to collect rent from a lodger in a rooming house. John King, a Breckinridge man, and Geo. Cook, a supporter of Owens, near Boonesboro, Ky.. Aug. 29, became involved in a quarrel over the Brecklnridgo scandal. Both drew knives and blood flowed freely until Cook dropped, having three stabs in the breast. King escaped.

The preliminary examination of Gov. Wait, at Denver, Friday, by U. S. Commissioner Hinedalo. on a charge of opening a letter addressed to the police matron, remUfjjf in the Governor’s prompt discharge. The chief of police and the present matron were held for trial on the same charge. There was a wholesale discharge of employes in the Government Printing Office, Monday, over five hundred being let out. ■"SltvenrHind+afta-man.. we.ra..~oft~tho~4.i&t r among them A. G, Defrees, of Indianapolis, son of ex-Public Printer John D. Defrees. He was one of the oldest employes in tho office. The great parade of tho K. of P. National Encampment, at Washington, was reviewed by the President from a small stand in front of the White House. Indiana knights to tho number of 450, commanded by Col. J. R. Ross, led the column, fallowing the citizen’s committee and Major-General Carnahan and staff. For the first time In his political career Benator Gorman has been rebuked by his party in an election, his friends having been badly beaten in the primaries in Charles county, Marylnnd. Tho fight was a bitter one, the Gorman people reah Izing tho result would either close or w,iden the breach in the party In Maryland. It was the supporters of President Cleveland against the Senator. The Leona river at Uvalde; Tex., swollen by recent rains, burst from Its banks, and rushed without warning down upon the town, submerging and wrecking many houses and drowning many people. Five bodies were recovered. The number of fatalities car not be estimated. Great destruction to railway tracks occurred in all parts of tlje country. Hottomless cracks a quarter of a miloi long appeared in the earth. .'tiThe steamer Mariposa arrivad at San iFranciso, Aug. 30, bringing news from Auckland, Apia and Honolulu. Therehas been further lighting in Samoa between native factions and forcible interference

by British and German warships stationed at Apia. Fighting was still going* on when the steamer left Apia. Thetiews of Cleveland’s recognition of the Republic of Hawaii was received at Honolulu with, great rejoicing. The investigation into the delinquent tax scandal ait Memphis took another sensational turn, Wednesday, when James Harris, Controller of Tennessee, armed with a force of expert accountants, began to examine the books of the officials of Shelby county for the purpose of ascertaining the exact amount of money out of which the State has been defrauded. The frauds will reach a total of $4,000,000, and cover a period of ten years. The beginning of the work of distributing seeds by the Agricultural Department has been delayed by the lateness"of the passage of the appropriation bill by Congress. The force to perform the work this season will probably be organized in the beginning of October, and it will begin in January. The long inaction of the bill has also r prevented the department from obtaining a number of vegetable seeds, notably turnips. The amount allowed for the work, last year, was SOO,OOO, and this year it is? 10,000 less. — ^ — The fact lias been Drought out that United States Labor Commissioner Carroll B. Wright, who is a member of the commission now investigating. the recent great strike at Chicago, has a pass enabling him to ride free in any Pullman steeping, car, at any time and in any part of the United States. Ho says that Mr Pullman, who is his personal friend, gave it to him several years ago, about the time Iref Wriglit) mado his first investigation of affairs at Pullman.

A Paris dispatch says: Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has under consideration the advisability of instituting proceedings for divorce. The difficulties, it is said, nearly reached a climax some months ago, when the party on the yacht Valiant in the Mediteranean separated. About ten weeks ago Cornelius Vanderbilt went to London to stop further proceedings, but was unsuccessful. Mrs. Vanderbilt is represented by Col. Win. Jay. of New York, Who is now in Germany. lion. W. E. Wilson, author of the Wilson bill, was renominated for Congress at Martinsburg. W. Va., Aug. 29, by the most enthusiastic convention ever held in the district. The popular chairman of the ways and means committee, upondiis arrival from Washington, was seized by the onthusi a?tic Democrats who were art the train to receive him, carried bodily to n carriage in waiting and hauled by hand to the Central Opera House, where the convention was held. His reception amounted to more than an ovation. The convention was the largest ever held in the district, and by far the most enthusiastic. Strong resolutions indorsing Air. Wilson’s course were adopted. Mr. Wilson made a speech, in which he thanked his constituents for the renomination, and explained why his tariff bill failed, and scored the Democratic traitors who were responsible for its failure. He claimed that the Senate hill, however, is a great improvement over the McKinley law, and indorsed President Cleveland'B letter to Representative Catchings. Col, Bowles, of Kentucky, a life-long Democrat of the mountain region, has joined the Republican party on account of the tariff. Mr, Bowles Is largely interested in coal, lumber and iron.