Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1894 — THK NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THK NEWS OF THE WEEK

It is now definitely stated that Satolli will be mSde a Cardinal in December. Snow to the depth of three inches fell in the upper part of Michigan, Saturday pight. The large bakeries in Cincinnati have reduced the retail price of bread to three Lents per loaf. Mrs. Shepard, an aged woman, who *ved in Walker county, Alabama, was killed and her body eaten by hogs. Whitelaw Reed editor of the New York Tribune, and Republican candidate for Vice-President in 1892, is said to be in the last stages of consumption. He sailed for Egypt, Nov. 3, hoping that the climate may prolong his life until spring. At Tulsa, 1.T., Indian Chief Perryman’s son, in a spirit of bravado, shot into a keg as powder. He was blown to atoms. «It is said that the Washington Park Club, at Chicago, has been swindled out A many thoushnds of dollars by its steward 1 , The Union line steamer Wairaipa, found from Sydney, N. S. W., for Auck* land, N. Z., was wrecked, Sunday night off Grand Barrier Island on the northeast eoast of New Zealand. One hundred and k'-'elve passengers and twenty-three of the crew were lost. Prince Peter Alisoff, a leading Ruissan Nihilist, residing at Vienna, in an interview, Saturday, stated that the Czar was gradually poisoned with small doses of phosphorus-administered to him by Nihilists,since March I, until his disease was esfeibl"ished, They managed'to “spice”'the l Emperor’s dishes and are now safe away, tie added that the whole Romanoff lynasty is doomed to a similar fate. Gallus Mueller, chfof clerk of the Northern Illinois Penitentiary, at Joliet, ’or the past twenty-four years, committed tuicide at his home in that city, Tliurslay, by shooting. Mr. Mueller was a nost intelligent man, a fino musician and i valued official. No goad reason has jeep found for the deed, which was evilently premeditated. The Virgina State Building at the World’s Fair, which was a reproduction If George Washington’s Mt. Vernon mansion, has been purchased and is now occupied as a residence by a Chicago policeW, S. McGuire, The house which Cost 117,000, was bought by McGuire for : 1400 and moved to a lot on Stoney Island ivenue, three miles away, and now a Chicago policeman sleeps in the reproduction of the bed chamber of the father of his country. The officer intends to furnish the place with furniture modeled after that of tho Mt. Vernon mansion. A Seattle. Wash., dispatch, Nov. 2,says: The lumber schooner Fanny Dutard, Captain Feterson, arrived at Port Blakely, reports that the missing Ivanhoe, with F. J. Grant, ex-minister to Bolivia, on board, probably sank on tho afternoon of Sept. 30. “Wo left Port Blakely,” said Captain Peterson, “on the 26th of September last, bound for Santa Barbara with lumber. We sailed out under a light • wind and arrived at the cape on the 29th. We saw a tug towing out a ship that same svening and drop her off the cape. That aight a storm came up, and on the morning of the 30th moderated. The ship was ' too far away for us to make out her name ir cargo. She appeared to have a terrible list to starboard. We could see that lometbing was wrong with her, for her list was in the wrong direction. That tight the yessel disappeared from sight.” L’lie Ivanhoe carried a crew of twenty, who all shipped from San Francisco.