Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Texas cotton crop is estimated 1,824,982 bales. • 8 Colorado Populists , have re-nominated Bov. Waite. Gen. Stoneman, ex-Governor of California, died at Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 5. Chauncey Depew declares that he will not be a candidate for Governor of New York. 2 Drought in New YorkJState is without precedent. Farmers are mourning the loss of crops. Ex-Secretary of War Stephen B. Elkins Is reported to be seriously ill at his home at Elkins, W. Va. The coke men in tn*. Connellsville, Pa., field, went out again Sept. 4, and nearly all the plants are idle. Burglars entered the Wabash ticket office at Springfield, 111., at the noon hour and robbed the safe of 51,000. The Union Pacific has issued a notice to all employes to in the future abstain from any participation in politics. Henry Irving bas cabled SSOO to the mayor of New York for the relief of the sufferers by the forest fires in Minnesota. A Milwaukee undertaker was stoned by smob when he attempted to convey the body of a smallpox patient to the cemetery. While scuffling on the footboard of an engine at Danville, 111., W. C. Langdon and W. Lee fell off and were fatally injured. Mrs. Hamilton, of Fargo, N. D.. en route to visit a brother at Marion, contracted smallpox, of which she died, Wednesday, at Marion. Arkansas went Democratic Sept. 4, by 25,000 majority. There was a large decrease in both the Republican and Populist vote, with the Populist ticket third in the race. The Arkansas election was held Monday. James P. Clark, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and the entire State ticket were elected by pluralities ranging from 15,000 to 20,000, The Republican State ticket and all the Republican candidates for Congress, in Vermont, were elected by increased majorities, Sept. 4. The State ticket will have a majority of at least 25,000. Senator Jones, who has represented Nevada in the United States Senate for twenty-one years as a Republican, formally renounced his allegiance to that party it Washington, Sept. 4, • and cast his lot with the Populists, Six negroes, under arrest near Mem phis. Tenn., on a charge of arson, were ihot.by a nieb, Sept. 1, while being taken by officers to a place of safety. All were killed. It is claimed that the lynchers are known and will be arrested and punished.

The hero of Hinckley, who bravely ran his train through smoke and flame and saved hundredsdflfvesbyhlanerveahd determination, receiving terrible burns and injuries from which he may die. At Fincastle, Wolf county, Kentucky Joo Gum left his three-year-old child in care of its cousin, Henry Gum, while he went to work in the cornfield. The boy becoming tired of his charge, beat its brains out with a club and threw the body into a creek. lie was arrested and is now in jail at Beattyville. The alleged war in the Orient continues. The Emperor of China issued an edict, Ang. 1, news of which reached San Francisco, Sept. 5, in which he says that Corea has been tributary to China for two hundred years. He claims that the Wojen (a name of contempt for the Japanese) suddenly sent their troops to Corea without cause, and refused to listen to reason. Hence war was declared.

The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Washington considered the report, Friday afternoon, from the committee appointed to draft a new ritual for the uniform rank. A discussion of the proposed amendments to the constitution, which will establish a judicial body analogue to the Supreme Court, absorbed most of the session. It is reported that an amendment will be recommended excluding liquor dealers and bartenders from admission to the order. Mrs. T. DeWitt Talmage, wife of the Brooklyn preacher, has been left a legacy of 813.000 by Miss Elizabeth Lord, of Brooklyn, who died in the early summer in actual want, cared for by benevolent people. Within a few days it has been learned that the woman who died in poverty was worth 813.00 J. It is not known that she was acquainted personally with Mrs. Talmage, but perhaps she had heard of her as a charitable, kindly woman. Possibly Mrs. Talmage called on her during one of her trips of visitation among the people of her parish. Secretary Carlysle believe that the total amount of whisky taken from bond before the new tariff law went into effect will be disposed of inside of two months, and that the payments of taxes on whisky will then be resumed. For the last week the receipts from that source amounted to practically nothing. The first week’s operation of the new tariff law has shown that it is satisfactory as a revenue measure to the Treasury officials. The receipts for the last week were larger than for any similar period in the history of the Government, —-- Public Printer Benedict discharged Sbout three hundred employes from the overnment PrintlngOffice, Tuesday, who had been appointed on the recommendation of Senator Gorman. Those men were jet out, it is said, on an order from the White House, and is an incident of the war waging between the President and Senator Gorman, growing out of the tariff fight. Gormcn, as chairman of the Senate printing committee, has been dominating Ahe Public Printing Office. He was only a minority member of the committee under

the Harrison administration, but controlled nearly two hundred appointments eyen then. ,

The distinguished Massachusetts soldier and statesman, died at Waltham, Saturday, Sep. 1, Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was born in Waltham, Mass., Jan., 30, 1816. He was educated as a lawyer and was elected to the Legislature in 1849. In 1853 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, but afterward withdrew from that party, and was re-elected as a KnowNothing, and was elected Speaker of the Hoilge, after a contest lasting two months He was re-elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress as a Republican, and served until 1857, when he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, being honored by re-elec-tion in 1858 and 1859. In 1860 he became president of the Illinois Central railroad, but resigned when the war broke out, and went into the army as major-general of volunteers,being assigned to duty as commander of the Fifth Corps in the Army of ths Potomac. He was relieved of his command in May, 1864, resigned his commismission, and returned to Massachsetts, where he was again elected to Congress several times. For several years he was United States Marshal for Massachusetts.

lowa’s most prominent citizen, the great war governor, Samuel J. Kirkwood, is dead. With no illness preceding, without a pang of suffering, he passed away, Saturday afternoon, at lowa City, just as he would fall into a sleep. No disease had attacked him; old age simply claimed him with gentle hands. He would have been eighty-one years old next December, and would then have completed forty years’ residence in lowa, during all of which time, save the first year, he had been a central figure in public life. Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was born tn Maryland, Dec. 20,1813; was raised on a farm, educated in a log school-house, and afterward clerked in a drug store in Washington, D. C. He studied law and removed to Ohio, afterwards moving to lowa. He entered the State Senate in 1856; was elected Governor in 1859; was prominent as a war govenor; elected to the United States. From the Senate he returned to private live, but in 1875 the unprecedented honor nf_a-third_nbminaHon for Governor came to~him, and—he had-a—great majority. Again he was elected United States Senator, only to be chosen; soon after he hal taken his seat, as Garfield’s Secretary of the Interior. - At the Democratic State convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., W. H. Wilson, the temporary chairman, created a sensation bj his references to Senator Pettigrew, who, he said, was a Napoleon Bonaparte without his courage, a Cassius without a Brutus to guide his dagger, a Judas Iscariot with thirty pieces of silver in his pockel and without the courage to use a rope. The National Retail Liquor Dealers' Association in session at St. Louis, Thursday, passed resolutions favoring personal liberty; favoring organization to prevent political parties from surrendering tc their enemies; holding that mankind arc created free moral agents and denouncing the attempts of fanatics to regulate the appetites of men by law; holding that the liquor traffic is legitimate and honorable when properly conducted, and that legal discrimination is a plain violation of the spirit and principles of free government; In an action to annul the charter of the American Tobacco Company in New Jersey, on the ground that it was operating as a trust, testimony being taken in lau offices in New York city. President Duke testified that the entire properties of the several companies were turned over to the American Tobacco Company. Duke, Soni & Co., the witness declared, sold 960,000,000 paper cigarettes during the year 1889 Mr. Duke said 8400,000 had been spent ii advertising in 1888, and that the sale; were made all over the world.

ENGINEER JAMES ROOT,

GEN. N. P. BANKS,

GOV, S. J. KIRKWOOD,