Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, has joi ned the Populist party. Hon. W. D. Wilson was given a great reception at Charlestown, W. Va., Monday. = -~ Edward Wilson, of Chicago, was found dead beside the railroad track at Crown Point. A somewhat similar crusade to that of Dr. Parkhurst is soon to be started at Baltimore. Gen. Lew Wallace, interviewed at St. Paul, was confident of Republican success in 1896. Two hundred tons of lead left San Francisco for Japan and will be converted into cartridges. Senator Hill was officially notified of his nomination for Governor of New York, Saturday, and accepted. The creditors of ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, will receive forty cents on the dollar. The claims amount to 1213,000; The Whisky Trust directors have decided on a policy of retrenchment which, it is estimated, will save $12,000 a month. Mrs. Belva Lockwood has been finally admitted to the bar of Virginia. She is the first woman thus honored by the State. The Lake Shore Electric Railway Company of Chicago was incorporated at Springfield with a capital stock of $lO,000,000. A. K. Shaw, a well known Chicago Board of Trade man, committed suicide by taking morphine. Financial troubles caused the act, 4 Hon. Levi. P. Morton, Republican nominee for Governor of New York, sent a formal letter of acceptance to the State committee, Oct- 10. Welsh manufacturers are said to be offering all Welsh tin plate workers now In America employment, and promise to pay their fares home. A runaway tug in the Chicago river, Saturday, plowed through shipping and destroyed twenty feet of the dock. The (hipping was not injured. Four officers of the Midland Coal Company of Chicago were arrested on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses and were put tn tsoirds-of -S3OO each. — 2 Four of the leading druggists of Cincinnati were arrested upon warrants issued by the food inspector, charging them with selling adulterated drugs, Mrs. Cleveland has been cordially commended in resolutions adopted by the District of Columbia W. C. T. U., now in session, for her strong stand against social drinking. The Mollcnhauer sugar refinery, of Brooklyn, employing I.BCO men, will shut down for an indefinite time. The Mollenhauer people say thete is no market for sugar.

At Marble Rock, la., George Reams murdered his wife, breaking her head with a chair and theu cutting her throat. He then cut his own throat and will die. Domestic trouble was the cause. One man was suffocated and, four men entombed alive in a burning mine at Shamokin, Pa., Tuesday. The four men, who are known to have been alive at first, could not be rescued and it is supposed they perished in the flames. <’ The Irish Times says that Mrs. Parnell, widow of the late leader of the Irish party, has given permission to Messrs. John E. Redmond, Timothy Harrington and J. J. O’Kelly to examine the private papers of her husband and write a biography. M. Y. Chung is the diplomat of the Chinese Legation whose thorough knowledge of English makes him a medium of communication between the legation and the press and public. Mr., Chung is a Yale graduate, and a member of the Delta |£appa Epsilon fraternity.

Chairman Wilson arrived at New York from his European tour Saturday. In an interview he stated that protectionist speakers had garbled his London speech. jMr. Wilson will have his famous speech printed and scatter it broadcast as a campaign document. |4A seven-story building in process of construction at New York was blown down py a high wind, Tuesday night. It crushed through a two-story bnilding adjoining, completely demolishing it, Four persons are known to have been killed pnd the number of injured is large. John Ravell, a farmer near Ironwood, Mich., tried to thaw out some giant Eowder in the oven of a stove, so he could se It in blasting stumps. He succeeded. Ravell and his fiyo-year-old son were killed outright, Mrs. Ravell and a six-year-old daughter will undoubtedly die. W. W. Tracy, President of the Nationf.l Republican League clubs, has arranged or the establishment of Eastern headquarters of the League in New York unider the direction of E. B. Harper, Treasurer of the League, and in charge of Col. Is. L, Swords, Sorgoat-at-Arms of thoNajttonal committee.

; Miss Beatrice Von Dresdon, aged seven - fenteen, made a balloon ascension at Franklinville Fair Grounds, New York, (Saturday. At a height of 1,500 feet she attempted to descend with the parachute but lost her hold and fell like a stone. (Her body was driven into the ground twelve inches and every bone broken. Iler father and mother were among the first to reach her dead body. ' Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons met at Now York, Thursday, and arranged for a fight, to take place at Jacksonville, Fla., on a date to be named by the Florida Athletic Club after July 1, 1895. The stakes are 110,000 a side. The pugilists came very near being involved in a fight while the preliminaries were being arranged." Very questionable compliments were exchanged and it seemed that a storm was about to burst but nothing came of it. Gov. McKinley reached St. Paul, Sat urday evening, after six days of the most remarkable campaigning ever known in the great Mississippi valley. This is the judgment of Richard Clarkson, editor and publisher of the lowa State Register, and brother of Gen. J. S. Clarkson, In his tour of the West the Governor of Ohio has traveled 2,500 miles, made more than sev-enty-five speeches, varying"in length from five minutes to one hour and a half, and has been greeted by not less than halt a million enthusiastic Western people. The Attorney-General has rendered an opinion that the word “wool” as used in Paragraph 897 of the new tariff act, refers to hair of sheep only, and that the new duties under Schedule K upon artfoies made of the hair of the other animal*

went immediately into effect when the act took effect. Customs officers will be governed accordingly. Instructions of Aug. 27 remain unchanged. Collectors will reliquidate all entries covering goods classified contrary to above instructions.