Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — THE NEWS THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS THE WEEK

The Debs conspiracy trial is in proyress in Chicago. .. —■ ■■ ■ ■ An anti-vaccination league has been formed in Chicago. Portland has contracted for a system »f waterworks to cost 145,000. Two trainmen were killed by a rear-end wllision in the Hoosac Tunnel, Sept. 9. Chicago police are having trouble with i thoroughly organized band of thieves. The Lexow investigation committee resumed its sessions at New York city Sept. 10. Property in the vicinity of Bethlehem, Pa., was damaged $500,000 by a cloudburst, Saturday night. Senator Peffer says-- the last Congress was the most stupendous failure in the history of the Nation. r* 4 The National G. A. R, Annual Encampment began at Pittsburg, Sept. 10, The attendance was large. The Campbell Bank at Rossville, 111., was robbed of SIO,OOO, Wednesday, while the officers were at dinner. A decision of the Oklohama Supreme Court nullifies all divorces granted by probate judges during last year. A fight between a bull-dog and a montey was used to attract attention to a political meeting near Louisville. Mrs. Robert Kinzie, with one exception th® oldestsettlor of Chicago, died in Omaha, where she was visiting a son. Investigation has developed the fact that the supposed ease of cholera at Cumberland, Va., was not that disease. Koibites in Alabama will join with the Populists and Republicans in an attempt to defeat the Democratic candidates. It is said that Senator Brice will resign if the Ohio Democratic convention condemns his opposition to the Wilson bill. All the Christian churches at Paris, 111., have joined in a revival service in a tent accommodating three thousand persons. It Is said that Madeline Pollard has about abandoned her plan of going on the stage, as she is not receividg much encouragement in it. The Hoo Hoos, in their convention at Kansas City, decided by a vote of 89 to 90, that actors should hereafter be barred from the order of the Black Cat. At Roseburg, Ore., W. F. Brockman, a farmer, shot and killed his wife and stepson, Robert Ring. The tragedy was the outgrowth of domestic discord. At Dayton Ben F. Travies, aged fiftyfive, and Julia A, Batten, aged fiftyfour, his paramour, engaged in a quarrel. The woman killed Travies with a club. The New York Populists have nominated Charles B. Matthews, a member of the Farmers’ Alliafice and a Knight of Labor, for Governor, and a full State ticket. The police raided a gambling house at Owensboro, Ky., and caught a number of prominent men, among them Elijah Sebree, Republican candidate for Congress in that district. At Newark, 0., an unknown tramp called at the home occupied by three girls named Rank, and at the point of a revolver compelled Florence, the youngest, to hand over S9O. ~ _ Gen. J. B. Gordon, of (jeorgia, second In command at Appomattox, was in Pittsburg during the Encampment, and met many of the Union officers against whom be fought so long. The New York constitutional convention, in committee of the whole, adopted a resolution changing the term of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor from three years, as at present, to two.

Near Parachute, C 01,,. cattlemen iwooped down upon three sheep camps, ihot and dangerously wounded a herder named Carl Brown, drove oil the other herders and ran the sheep away. At Murphysboro, 111., Mrs. Ann Rogers, lister to the late Gen. John A. Logan, took morphine with suicidal intent. It is thought her life will be saved. Despondency is supposed to be the cause. lowa and Nebraska hogs are being ihipped into Indiana for feeding purposes, the farmers of that section being compelled to sell their stock because of the entire failure of the corn crop. At Piedmontli, Ala., two members of the family of E. S. Downs have died from drinking from a poisoned well, while two men are not expected to recover. A discharged servant has been arrested. Ex-Senator J. R. Doolittle, of Racine, Wis., has been nominated by the Democrats of the First district for Congress. It Is thought he will not accept. Senator Doolittle is now serving as Circuit Judge. Bill Dalton is alive again. A personal friend of the outlaw, in an interview at Perry, O. T., states that Dalton has temporarily retired from public life, but is well and has not been hit with a bullet for over a year. i Col. Thomas Jefferson Dolan, the well known Democratic politician of Chicago, was found wandering about the streets in a dazed condition. Dolan had forgotten his own name and will be examined by the insane court. One hundred monkeys escaped from the hold of the ’Liberia at the wharf at New York, Sept. 12, and a lively time was experienced before they were recaptured. The Liberia had just arrived from Africa with its peculiar cargo. :■ Benjamin Shearer, manager of the Wes•"tenrU nton Telegraph Gok,and his corps of assistants have been dismissed at the instigation of the War Department. They are charged with conspiracy during the recent strike, Gen. Harrison left Elkins, W. Va., Wednesday, for his home at Indianapolis. En route he made brief speeches in Chairman Wilson’s district at Phillipi and Grafton. Ho expressed the belief that Mr. Wilson would be defeated, and urged Republicans to make an aggressive fight. Wiley J. Bronson, a reputable farmer of Coal Creek township, Montgomery county, reports that there was a fall of fish from the clouds on Sunday lastdurlng a storm. Some of the fish were four and five inches in length and several families ate of them. They were mostly of two varieties, bass and suckers. The Chicago Board of Education, after a somewhat tempestuous discussion, voted to abandon the old slanting system of penmanship and to introduce into Chicago schools the vertical system. The Board Introduced another Innovation, the bath tub, as a factor in education, and dirty children will be given a bath before being permitted to attend school sessions. Coilmer&Co„ general storekeepers at St. Petersburg, Pa., were robbed of 170,000 in cash and bonds, Saturday night, by an pnknown thief supposed to have been concealed in the store. At the close of business at 10 p. m. the firm and clerks closed

the store and repaired to a clear stand; across the street. They returned in ten. minutes to find the door standing open. A search revealed the robbery, and the; fact that the thief had probably been cori-i cealed in the store when they left. Noi clue. The whole plot of the lynching of six alleged negro incendiaries near Millington, Tenn., cm the night of Aug. 31 has been laid bare by Robert MeCarver, a son of Sheriff MeCarver, of Shelby county. Young MeCarver was invited to join the mob but refused. The guilty parties will be arrested. A telegram was received at the Japanese legation at Washington, Tuesday, to the effect that a treaty had been concluded between Corea and Japan providing tKat Japan shall wage war and drive the Chinese soldiers out of Corea, and establish the autonomy of the latter country. Eugene Debs addressed a mass meeting at Harrisburg, Pa., Friday; night, on the strikes of last summer. Debs said he was opposed to strikes,, but that they are the only weapons which labor has to defend itself against the encroachments of capital. He claimed that the Pullman employes were unjustly treated by the company and that he admired them for striking. If he had been an employe he would have struck regardless of consequences. Debs contended that the sympathy strike •was forced by the General Managers’ Association offering to make the fight for the Pullman company. He had no more to do with ordering the strike than if he had not been in the country. It was ordered by the unanimous action of 350 delegates to the American Union convention after all subordinate lodges had been consulted. The strike was won five days after it was inaugurated, and then the injunction was issued against the leaders, and they were enjoined from directing their forces. He advocated unification of all branches of labor and claimed that class brotherhoods had never won successful strikes themselves. The Chicago strike was not? defeated, because it had advanced the cause of labor fifty years. “I believe in law and order,” he said, “and am not a disciple of the red flag of anarchy.”