Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Gen. O. O. Howard was placed on the retiredlist of the regular army, Nov. 8, having attained the requisite age. N. J. Villars Is in jail at Fargo, N. D., for assaulting Mrs Fronier and afterward throwing her in a well, from which she barely escaped alive. A mob tried to lynch him. The Chinese 7 per cent, silver loan, amounting to £1,600,000, secured by the revenue of the treaty ports, has been subscribed for in London much in excess o{ the amount required. A bill has passed the Legislature of thQ Indian territory making it treason for a Cherokee citizen to sell real estate to aj non-citizen, naming as a penalty forTq doing, death by hanging. Robbers entered the First National Bank, at Oberlin. Ohio, Thursday night, and secured MOO in silver, which was op a tray in the vault. They failed to open the safe :ontainlug 125,C00. A. G. Mitchell, a prominent buslnes) man, of Memphis, fell from a moving trait) on the C. <fe O. road. His neck was brok: en. Only the day before he took out twq accident policies of f3,t03 each. Frank P. W Bellew, of New York,caricaturist, has died of pneumonia. He wa i thirty-two years old and a sou of Frank Bellew, whose caricatures were feature! of__lb.o illustrated newspapers twenty years ago. The Cook gtmg'uf‘outlaws raided th'i town of Lenapah, I. T., Friday. E. Mel- ; ton, a young man who tried to prevent their escape, was shot and killed. The bandits looted two stores, and secured money and valuables to an unknown amount. Mrs. Lizzie Bangs, an alleged spiritualistic medium, of Chicago, on a visit to Bluffton, was exposed by a Mr. Mossman, who took his own slates and asked for messages from.the other world. He received three, duly sighed, but all of the signatures were those of persous still living. While crazed from the effects of a protracted spree Peter Pepper, a barber, an inmate of the Louisville (Ky.) City Hospital, grasped his tongue in both hands and tort* it partly from hts mouth. An attendant discovered the suffering mail, who was still tugging away at his tongue. He died in a few minutes, l The “Greater New York” consolidation scheme for the merging of New York City, Brooklyn, and contiguous suburbs into one municipality, submitted to the people at the November election, received the indorsement of a majority of the votors, and will be carried out. Three masked men entered E. C. Enderly’s store at Thermopolis, Wyo., Nov. 9, covered the proprietor with guns and compelled him to give them *11,30:) from the safe. Mr. Enderly and others pursued the robber and shot one, who was recognized as Jake Snyder. He will die. The others escaped with most of the plunder. Governor Waite is going to leave Colorado. It is said that he is thinking over a proposition said to have been made to him to take »p his residence In Illinois. It is added that the People’s party of Illinois have taken such a liking to the Governor that, they want him not only to reside among them, but also to lead them to victory as their candidate for Governor in 1896. Brlg.-Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook has been appointed major-general of tlie United States army, vice Gen.., Howard, retired, and Col. James W. Forsyth, of the Seventh cavalry, has been promoted to brigadier-general to succeed, 1 McCook. Brigadier-Gen. McCook, who 1

becomes a major-general, Is at present in command of the Department of Colorado, has been forty-seven years in the military, service and is one of that famous family of warriors, “the Fighting McCooks.” H(J is a graduate of the West Point military, academy, which he entered as a cadet in 1847.

GEN. ALEX M’DOWELL M’COOK.