Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

-Outlaws have full sway in the Indian Territory. A heavy fog prevailed at New York all •day, Sunday, and all incoming vessels were seriousty delayed, | “The National Postage Movement” has peen organized at Chicago. It’s purpose |is tjp secure one-ceut letter postage. Fifth Auditor Holcomb, in his annual fceport, announces a deficit in the foreign mission fund for the year of I90;000: Officials of the State Department have received information that seventy Anarchists are on their way to America. Hog cholera is causing farmers grdat Joss in Morgan county, 111. The disease is traced to shipments from Nebraska. Breckenridge’s appeal against the verdict given Miss Pollard has been dismissed, and the case is now out of court. Geuda Springs, Salt City and Winfield, Kas., were visited by a tornado, Monday. Great destruction resulted. No lives were lost. Thp Supreme Court of Nebraska has decided that the Bryan or fusion ticket shall be designated as Democratic on the official ballot. Congressman Harter, of Ohio, says he cannot support the Democratic State ticket on account of the free silver plank in the platform. A man who demanded 11,000 at the Clinton Place Bank. New York, upon being refused, fired at but missed the cashier. He was arrested. —~ tcEx-Govemor Bedle, of New Jersey, died at St, Luke’s Hospital, New York, Sunday, from the prostration resulting from a serious surgical operation. At Eminence, Ky., Sunday, James Williams, a young white man, shot and fatally wounded Matt Sherley, a negro woman, and Frank Booker, a white man. The executive committee of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union has issued a,call for a special season of consecration and prayer, to be held upon Wednesday of next week. Just beforo murderer James O’Dooley was hanged at Ft. Madison, la., ho reproached the sheriff for allowing twentyfive persons to witness the execution, when the law only allowed seventeen. At El Reno, O, T.. while some twentyJivo Indians were riding a broncho race, their animals collided, throwing nearly the whole party in a heap, killing two and fatally injuring several. Adolph Kraus has secured control of a majority of stock in the Chicago Times, and will assume control of the paper. He was corporation counsel under the late Mayor Harrison. In the habeus corpus case of Howard Levi P. Morton’s English coachman, at New York. Friday, Judge Lacombe, of the United States Court, dismissed the writ. Under this ruling Howard must go back to England. Miss Harriet Monroe, the authoress of the Columbian ode, at New York, on Wednesday, secured a verdict in the United States Court for 15,000 against the New York World for infringement on her copyright. 2 United States District Attorney Mac'arlane, at New York, will enter suit against ex-Vlce-President Morton for violation of the alien contract labor law because of the importation of Howard, the English coachman. Ex-Senator Tabor, of Colorado, has at Jast succumbed to the pressure of debt under which ho has been struggling for five years, and has made an assignment as all his property and all other interests for the benefit of his creditors, fiChristiansen Pearson, a special policeman employed by wealthy residents of the Hyde Park suburb of Kansas City, was murdered by burglars, Tuesday night. One >f them dropped a peculiar key. which will probably lead to his arrest. The “Public Stock and Produco Exchange,” of Pittsburg, a “wild cat” institution,was closed by the police. Saturday, and the officers placed under arrest. Most of the unfortunate investors are women, who were deluded into the idea that an easy road to affluence had been discovered. Hugh. J. Grant was named as Tammanv’s candidate for mayor of Now York, Friday, in place of Mr. Strauss, withdrawn. This action is regarded by Democrats at Washington as practically insuring the election of Mr. Hill as Governor. President Cleveland is said to have suffered a severe attack of “writers’ cramp” at Gray Gables, and is unable to control tho fingers of his right hand sufficiently to hold a pen. Physicians say that thero is no doubt of his recovery in a short time. Four grandchildren of Bishop Wlllßro Taylor, Methodist missionary Bishop Africa, perished in the burning house of their father, Rev. Ross Taylor, at N/ack N, Y.. Monday. In addition one nu»n was so seriously burned that ho will die and two others were dangerously injirod. The barkentine Amelia, from Honolulu, brings news that Queen Ltluokalant’s emissaries in Washingto* City, Parker and Wldeman, had retur»ed with personal assurances from SecFtnrv of State Gresham that, in the event of another revolution in Hawa'. the United States would remain neuralMrs. Eliza Capo* l ' tt ? e seventy, whose Bon-in-law, Jul«s Roherback, asked for a conservator 4 *I*l 1 * 1 she might not squander her 33C000 fortuno in her fad for steamship-rips on the Atlantic, left Chicago, Wednesday night, for New York to take an*ther trip. The son-in-law withdrew application for a conservator. Opo Ziegler, at Sacramento, Cal., broke th* bicycle record by covering a mile in >SO. As a matter of fact he did ride the mile In a fraction over 1:40, but as one of the several watches made 1:50 for the lad. the judges placed the official time at that figure. This mile was made at a flying start, placed by tandem teams. The sugar trust officials, Messrs. Havetneyer and Searles, were arraigned 1n the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, Wednesday, before Judge Cole, and pleaded not guilty to the Indictments against them for refusing to answer questions of the Senate sugar trust Investigating committee. The defendants were released on 95,000 bail and the cases continued. Some time ago David L. Cockley and several others in Cleveland, paid under protest to the customs officers in Cleveland a tariff on hollow steel higher than that charged on solid steel billets. Cockley took the case to the United States District Court of Northern Ohio and won his caasT which involved an order'for a Inf under. Marco R. Garry, collector of customs at Cleveland, appealed }be case

to the United States Circuit Court The hearing of the case is finished and the decision is reserved by the Court It is a test and involves refunders aggregating 1 about $45,000. •; .. Staring the production of the pifty “Uncle Josh Spruceby” at Marengo, 111., Huse N. Morgan, one of the leading actors, in arranging the saw-mill scene, accidentally let his hand between the saw and the log and it was literally torn to pieces. It was amputated at the wrist J later. By his s^lf -possession a panic was narrowly averted. Nearly a dozen ladies in the audience fainted. Prof. J. B. Jones, of the Hamilton Female College, and pastor of the Provitienco Christian church, near Lexington, Ky., has been deposed from his pastorate by the irate members who object to iris mixing up politics" with religion. Prof. Jones took a prominent part in the Breck-inridge-Owens campaign against Colonel Breckinridge. A majority of the officers of tho church were sympathizers with the Colonel, and as soon as ■ they were given the power they fired the Rev. Mr. Jones.