Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEKS [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEKS

The window glass factories of Millville N. J. will resume. Gov. McKinley opened the Republican campaign in Missouri, at St. Louis, Oct. 1 The Southern Pacific railroad officials have decided to reduce the pay of all their employes. E> Mr. Depew says that ex-Vice President Morton will be elected by fifty thousand majority. The students of Princeton, by a unanimous vote, decided to do away with all forms of hazing. Congressman Tom L. Johnson, of Ohio, is carrying on his campaign in a big tent which he has leased. Snow fell in thirty counties of northern Minnesota. Sunday, amounting in some places to a depth of three inches. Mrs. Belva Lockwood has been finally admitted the bar of Virginia. She is the first woinan ; thus honored by the State. . . . . There were 240 arrests In New York city, Sunday, for violations of the liquor law, the greatest number ever known in one day. It is said the Vanderbilt family will consent to a separation of William K. and his wife, but will strenuously oppose a divorce. 2 Three hundred Detroit Poles, disappointed in procuring work, attacked an engine house, but were repulsed with a loss by the firemen. Wichita, Kan., was visited by the worst kind of a “twisting” cyclone, Oct. 1. The property loss is heavy. One boy was killed by lightning. 3 The grand jury at Chicago, Saturday, returned seventy-five indictmentr against gamblers and owners of property leased forgjmbling purposes. 5 Embezzler Howgate was taken from New York to Washington, Thursday, by ex-Chief Drummond. Howgate still refuses to make any statement. Flying Jib is reported to have paced a mile in 1:59% at Chillicothe, 0., Sept. 30. The gelding was hitched to a pneumatic wagon with a running mate. Jacob Zahnd, of Chicago, committed suicide at San Francisco because of financial losses in connection with contracts for erecting Midwinter Fair buildings. The Chicago Woman’s Christian Temy perance Union has entered upon a crusade against the objectionable theatrical bill boards and scantily clad variety actresses. Martin Irons, the famous ex-labor leader, is in jail at Ft. Worth, Tex., on a charge of criminal assault on a little sev-en-vear-old girl named Rosalia Estrada Sells Brothers, the circus men, have sued Barnum & Bail? for SIOO,COO damages and $50,000 for loss of business, alleging injury because of a slanderous publication. The steamer Neosho, which went ashore on Spectacle Reef, Lake Michigan, has been abandoned to the underwriters. She ■was owned in Cleveland and was valued at SIOO,OOO. All of the railroads, six in'number, at Joliet, 111., are being fined SIOO a day because of their failure to comply with a track elevation ordinance recently passed by the city council. In a letter to California A. R. U. strikers, Mrs. Leland Stanford says she has appealed to the railway managers to reinstate thq men who quit work, but her petition has been in vain. Gen. A. M. West, an old-time Whig, latera secessionist and greenbacker, died at Holly Springs. Miss.. Sept. 30. Gen. West ran for Vice President on the ticket with Gen. Butler, in 1884. The Banckes Wire Nail Company, of Cleveland, the largest concern of the kind in the world, has closed down for an indefinite period. It is said that the business depression is responsible. Dr. A. Conan Do vie, the novelist, author of “A Study In Scarlet,” arrived at New York, Tuesday, oh the Elbe, from Southampton. Dr. Doyle will lecture in this country for several months. b A farmer named Beiry Rich, who lived near Paducah, Ky., is said to have been taken from his house by White Caps, early Monday morning, and deliberately hanged. He was suspected of arson. Congressman Cadmus, (Dem.) of New Jersey, was defeated for renomination, Oct. 3, ami the convention passed resolutions branding him ns a traitor to his party for having voted against the Wilson bill. Mrs. Julia Dietrich, a widow living at Rittman, 0., was choked into insensibility by robbers, who ransacked the bouse. They got money and property aggregating $570, but failed to find $1,400 In the cellar. 4 Gen. J, 8. Clarkson, the lowa member of the Republican N itional Committee, has announced himself in favor of Senator Allison, of that State, for President in 1896. Senator Allison’s “boom” is now said to be formally launched. A Southern Pacific Express wa? held up by three masked men near Phoenix. Arlz., Oct 1. The engineer was compelled to uncouple his engine while the robbers looked after the express car. The bandits are supposed to have secured $20.0)0 in gold. t> Senator McPherson, of New.lersey, who was implicated in the Sugar Trust scandal and tried to lay the blame on his hired girl, afterwards threatening to resign and stating that he would not seek a re-elec-tion, has just announced that he has sent the girl to the seashore and will again bo a candidate. The Democratic Executive Committee of Ohio has issued an address of 3.400 words, declaring for a silver Standard. The document takes the ground that silver is now the great issue, tariff reform having been practically settled and won. W. A. Thurman, the president of the committee, is the author of the paper. Willie Brown of Pittsburg, aged thirteen, “played horse” with companions who need him as a horse while they played “blacksmith” and nailed a mulo shoe to his foot. One nail passed entirely through his foot, Willie fainted and the other boys escaped. The injured boy is threatened with lockjaw and is in a critical condition. Judge Jenkins’s famous strike injunction was overruled by the United States Circuit Court of Aopeals at Chicago, Oct. 1., and the cause was remanded with directions to strike out from the restraining order of the Court the clause which resulted in the Boatncf investigating committee of Congress. i |4Tho twenty-sixth Annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee was held at Council Bluffs, lowa, October #, that date being the thir-

tieth anniversary of the battle of. Corinth. Gens. Schofield and Howard and Col. Fred D. Grant, as well as a number of distinguished officers, and two sons of the late Gen. Sherman, were seated on ■ the platform at the opening session. 3 The Republican State Central Committee at Topeka, Kan., Monday, gave out an exposure of alleged “deals” between Governor Lewelling, Attorney-General Little and other State officials of thePopulistspersuasion, charging them with receiving bribes from Peter W. Kline, a policy-shop man and lottery agent, whereby Kline was to be given a monopoly of the gambling and lottery buslz) ness in the principal cities of the State. The famous potato patch scheme of Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, by which several hundred acres of unimproved property in the suburbs were planted with potatoes, the crop from which it was hoped . would help feed the citizen poor and unemployed during the coming winter, is an assured success. A rough estimate of the total crop made from digging up a. small part of the land planted shows that it will aggregate fifteen thonsand bushels. Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, who makes his home at Washington City, has returned from his trip around the world. Mr. Foster left this country shortly after Cleveland’s inauguration, as our! representative in the Bering sea arbitration, and will now devote his time to superintending the printing of the proceedings of that court. Mr. Foster was for some years, before becoming Secretarv of State, the counsel of the Chinese legation, and since his return he has again been consulted bv the Chinese diplomates. The grand jury at Washington, Mon-| day, brought in indictments against Henry O. Haveveyer and John F. Searles, of the Sugar Trust, and Allan L. Seymour, of the stock brokerage firm of Seymour & Young, for refusal to answer questions put to them by the Senate Sugar Trust Investigating committee. The grand jury also brought in an Indictment against Mr. McCartney, of the firm of Carson McCartney, this last, however, merely being to perfect a previous report. All of the cases will come up for argument on demurrers on Oct. 12. The monthly Treasury statement shows that on September 29. 1891, the public debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $897,646,617. an increase for the month of September of $8,052,701, Following is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest-bear-ing obligations, $635,042,810; increase for the month. $140; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,830,030; decrease for the month. $1,720; debt bearing no interest, $180,693,496; increase for the month, $825,903. Tptal debt, $1,017,563,336. Certificates and treasury notes outstanding offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, $512,436,470. The receipts for the first three months of tho present fiscal year amounted to >73.379,414, and the disbursements, $98,459,129. leaving a deficit for the quarter of $10,079,710. Dr. V. C. Vaughan, dean of the University of Michigan medical faculty, believes that he has discovered a certain specific for tuberculosis. The product is called I nuclein, and was but recently made. The doctor has just returned from the International Congress of Hygiene at Buda Pesth, Hungary, where he read a paper on his discovery which attracted great attention. He has not proceeded far enough in his experiments to declare that nuclein will absolutely prevent tuberculosis in men, but he has proved that it will in animals. Albert A. Watson, a senior law student from Detroit, has, however, tried the nuclein. In nine months he gained twelve pounds, and seems entirely cured.