Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

J - •■ — '■ ________. « The gold reserve now stands at $58,289,609. Ambassador Bayard will sail from Southampton Oct. 6 for the United States. . General Freight Agent Caven. of the B. &O. was mysteriously assasinated at Cleveland. Colonel Breckinridge announces that he will resume the practice of law at Lex ington, Ky. ■—t- ——. ■ ■■ Louis Young arrived at Tacoma, having ridden a bicycle from Pittsburg. He was six months making the, trip. George B. Anderson, of the District of Columbia, secretary of legation at Bio Janeiro, has resigned on account of 111- ■ heal th. r~-\ —-r-

The seal herds in the Northern Pacific are being rapidly depleted by the recklessness of hunters. Fifteed thousand skins 11 have been taken this year. Chicago will have a colony of Indians. There are now several full-blooded Cherokees, Sacs and Foxes in that city engaged [n various occupations, and others will settle there. Four hundred and fifty employes of Alox Crow, the carpet manufacturer, have gone on strike against a 20 per cent, reduction in wages, Thomas Flunshel, his wife and his son, of Chicago, ate toadstools, thinking them mushrooms. The son is dead and the others are not expected to live. In an address before the State Board of Equalization Gov. Altgeld said the Pullman company escaped taxation on property worth upward of $40,000,000. The democratic committee at Frankfort, Ky., Saturday, officially declared W.C. Owens to be the nominee in the seventh district to succeed W. C. P. Breckinridge. Mrs. B. F. Pierce, of Rock Springs, Wyo.. claims to be a daughter of Jay Gould, by a woman whom he married in 1853, and from whom ho was never divorced. Andrew Jackson Laird, a defaulting expostoflfice inspector from Atlanta, Ga., for whom the whole country has long been searched, was arrested at Los Angeles, Cal.. Tuesday. D. £LMills i .the.miUiona!ro,ef New. York, and San Francisco, and Col. Charles F. Crocker, vice-president of the Southern Pacific, sailed on the Oceanic for Japan, Wednesday. The shipments of standard silver dollars during the last week amounted to $909,888. Tho shipments! of fractional silver coin during the presentjnonth to date aggregated $1,014,075. In a letter to California A. R. U. strikers, Mrs. Leland Stanford says she has appealed to the railway managers to reinstate tho men who quit work, but her petition has been in vain.

Henry W. Etowgate,. Ox-Chief of the Weather Bureau, who embezzled over 1100,000 in 1879 and escaped, was arrested, Thursday, in Mew York, where ho was in business under the name of Harvey Williams, At Circievilie.O., the residence of Crawford Hedges, a wealthy bachelor, was entered by masked men and robbed. He attempted to protect his property, and now lies at the point death from injuries rcceived. _ A “mill” between Dan Creedon and Bob Fitzsimmons, at New Orleans, Wenesday night, resulted in a knock out for Creedon on the second round. Fitz, landed his left on Creedon’s jaw and Dan give it up. William Konkling, a beardless farmer boy of twenty, attempted single-handed to rob the bank of Bloomfield, Skiles & Co., at Mt. Sterling, 111., Tuesday. He secured 8400, but was captured after a lively chase. The Nebraska Democrats at Omaha, Sept. 26, indorsed the Populist ticket by a large majority, and adopted a free silver platform. Ono hundred and four “straight outs” bolted and reorganized. A ticket was nominated, headed by P. D. Sturdevant for Governor, and a platform similar to the fusion convention’s adopted, with the exception that it favors a gold basis. The political situation in South Carolina is growing serious. The alarm is by no means confined to the possibility of the defeat of the straight-out Democrats by the Tilllmanites, but is occasioned by indications that the election will be followed by a dual Government in the State, and all the riot and bloodshed that accompanies a perturbed condition. Under the Australian ballot law in Nebraska but one ticket for each party can be voted. The “rump” Democratic convention at Omaha, Wednesday, chartered a special train and stole a march on the “regular” convention, which indorsed the Populist ticket, and succeeded' in filing the bolters’ticket with the Secretary of State first. The regular ticket may be Hied “by petition.” The matter is likely to get into the courts. William Milne, the foreman who had his tongue and lower jaw shot away in the recent attempted train robbery at Kelsoe, I. T., has been taken to New York by his physician. An effort will be made to secure for the injured man a new jaw, »nd for this purpose the most eminent turgeons of New York will be consulted. The railway company is doing everything In its power to lessen the misfortune that befell its faithful employe and is paying him his full salary. W. J, Littlejohn, of Chicago, in delivering the annual address before the Fire Underwriters’ Association of the Northwest, at the Grand Pacific Wcdnes jay. declared that the recent forest fires had been started by the lumber kings They had taken that method, ho said, of covering up their stealings, and to them was directly due the death and destruction which followed. The speech caused a sensation among the 400 members present. A Caddo, I. T., dispatch. Sept. 24, says: Today at 2 p. m., at the Pushmatha district court ground, in Jackson county, thirty miles from hero, James Allen, a full-blood Choctaw, aged about twentyfour years, who was convicted in August, was shot by Deputy Sheriff Robert Jackion. He walked from the jail to the courthouse, a distance of about fifty yards, with comparative indifference. He went into the courthouse, knelt down over his eoffin and offered up a farewell prayer. Then he pulled off his coat, had rolled back the colar of his shirt and had painted a white heart on his breast over his own heart. He died almost instantly after the shot 'was fired. At Lexington, Ky., Sept 26. George Denny, jr., was nominated by the Bcpub-

licans of the Ashland district to oppoM Owens in the race for Congress. Nothing sensational occurred until the Judg< made his speech of acceptance. Aftei thanking the convention for iteunanimom action he. said, in part: “Glancing over the history of the grand old district we find that it has been represented in Congress by great and ndbh men. Your present Congressman I consider the superior of any of them, and, la my judgment, is to-day the best equipped man in Kentucky or elsewhere. They may say what they please about him, bul he is the most eloquent man in the country to-day.” Judge J. B. Combs was assassinated al his homo in Hazard, Perry county, Kentucky, Sunday morning at 7 o’clock. Judge Combs is the father-in-law of J. O. Everson, who was killed- by the French faction some years ago. He was shot from a corn patch on the opposite, side o! tho street from his residence. Two unknown men were seen running from the spot, and they joined a third man at the rear of the town. This is not the first attempt on Judge Combs’s life. Unknown persons shot at him twice early in May, 1894. Both shots took effect in the doorcasing where he was standing.