Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Edward U. Curtis, Bep., was elected. mayor of Boston, Mass., Dec. 11, by 1,600 plurality. Five persons were overcome by coal gas In St. Paul. Ono of the victims has died and others are very ill. Chicagoans are said to have borrowed $7,000,090 in New York with which to run a bull campaign In stocks. Outlaw Jim Morrison and his 'gang are making asmall reign of terror in thecountry near Birmingham, Ala. The Rev. J. W. Morris, a Baptist minister, has been arrested at Birmingham, charged with counterfeiting. Claus Spreckles has purchased forty thousand acres of ’sugar land, a town and railroad in southern California. The reports of Japanese atrocities committed at Port Arthur are discredited in diplomatic circles at Washington. Miss Mary Stewart Sherman, daughter of the Ohio Senator, was married in Washington to James I. MacCallum. lowa’s Supreme Court decided that the mulct liquor law had not succeeded the prohibitory law as the general law of the State. Smallpox has appeared in the lumber camps in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, having been spread by transient laborers.' Dr. Carver, the champion wing shot, was beaten in the first of two matches by C. L. Grimm, who missed but four birds to 100. Drunken rowdies attacked a party of deputy marshals near Guthrie, Okla. Two »f them were killed and two badly wounded. 4 Mayor Hopkins has promised to support the recommendations of the Chicago Police Commission for a non-partisan police force. Henry Bier, a prominent broker of New Orleans, has been indicted for perjury, growing out of the sale as a street railway franchise. , 6 Mr. Andrews, the distinguished artist, Is painting a life size portrait of Senator Voorhees, which will be presented to the new Congressional Library when the building is completed. A cable car collision In the Washington _llreet tunnel, at Chicago, Dec. 11, resulted In the fatal injury of one man. A score of people were badly hurt. A bill passed the Alabama Senate, making State warrants receivable for taxes. The purpose of the bill is to make State warrants a circulating medium. 3 B. R. Tillman was elected United States Senator from South Carolina, Dec. 11, reviving 131 out of 165 votes cast in the Jblnt convention of the Legislature. John Worthy, of Chicago, President of the Commercial Loan and Trust Company, died at New York, Dec. 12, of blood pollening, induced from a carbuncle which was removed by a surgical operation. • A sperm whale fifty feet long was captured off the Connecticut coast, near New Haven, Dec. 10. The whale broke the leg of one of its captors, a young seaman. The Rev. Dr. W. W. Boyd is reported to have said at a Baptist ministers’ meeting In St. Louis, that the University of Chicago was founded in blood and must fail. A man named Brumage was assassinated at his residence near Paris, Ky., Tuesday night. He was called to his Hi O • and shot down. There is no clew to the identity of the assassin. Fire destroyed the large clothing house •f Levy Bros., at Louisville, Dec. 10. Eight employes were hemmed in on the fifth floor and were rescued by the firemen with great difficulty. Loss, $50,000. Eight persons were sent to Chicago, from Mt. Vernon, 0., Dec. 13, to take Pasteur’s treatment for hydrophobia. All were bittea by a mad dog last week. The town of Mt. Vernon will pay all expenses. The Southern Hotel, Chattanooga, Tenn., burned at noon, Dec. 10, The lire was caused by an unaccountable explo•ion in the basement. "Many guests bad narrow escapes. Loss estimated at $130,000.

Representative Taylor will make a strong effort to have Congress pass a bill for the erection of a statue of Robert Dale Owen on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. A bill for this purpose has passed the Senate twice, but failed in tho House. Sixteen men entered a contest at Denver, Dec. 7, for a prize of (500 to be awarded to the man who keeps awake a whole week. The men are in a large room under watch. When one is seen to doze a bell id struck. If he falls to wake up he S counted out. ■ It is given out that C. P. Huntington has bought the Great Iron mountain at the eity of Durango, Mex., and that he will establish extensive iron and steel works there. This mountain Is the largest known body of iron in the world. Tho purchase price is placed at 11,000.090. b Samuel C. Seeley, the absconding cashfor of the Now York Shoo a d Leather Bank, was arrested as a ‘‘suspect” In Chleago. Dec. 10. Shortly after he confessed that he was Seeley and said he was ready to go back without trouble. Seeley relused to talk about his case.

Mrs. Fly, of West Bethlehem, Pa., suffered from*an unaccountable earache. Treatment resulted finally in the removal If seventeen roaches from one ear, dead ind alive, Mrs. Fly is deaf in that ear and cannot account for the vermin which made a nest of her auditory apparatus. Near Buchanan, Ga., Dec. 7, three masked men attempted to kill and rob "Buck’'Sbummcrlin, aged seventy-four, who had money at 'his house. The old man fought with a knife and killed one of bis assailants. He was shot, however, and will die. The other two robbers are at large. 2 The President has issued a proclamation forfeiting to the United States certain lands in the Sioux reservation in South Dakota, alleged to have been earned by the Chicago, Milwaukee <fc St. Paul Railway Company, under an agreement between the company and the Sioux Indiana. In tearing down an old building, at Franklin. la., workmen found In a corner stope a tin box containing 110,000 worth of Lee county, lowa, railroad bonds in a good state of preservation, worth a good many thousands of dollars, although almost worthless at the time of their issue, forty years ago. President Cleveland has reconsidered bfs determination not to appointan American delegate to the commission that will Investigate the Armenian outrages and tabled to Constantinople Dec. 7 to that

effect. Milo A. Jewett, United States consul at Sivas, has been selected to rep resent this country. The President has approved the recent recommendation of Secretary Hoke Smith providing for the withdrawal of about 133 scientific and technical positions from ths list of those In the geological snrvey excepted from the requirement of civil service examinations. These places will hereafter be subject to competitive examina tions.

Embassador Runyon has informed the Department of State, under the date of Nov. 22, that all persons sojourning in Germany not stopping at a hotel, are required to exhibit some certificate of nationality (in the case of* an American a passport), as a condition of continuing their stay and this is sometimes a very short sojourn. The fourteenth annual convention American Federation of Labor convened at Denver, Dec. 10. President Gompers escorted John Burns, R, J. McGuire and W. 11. Malden, the English labor mem: , bersof Parliament, to the rostrum. Thoid appearance was the signal for enthusias tic applause. Four hundred deldgatad were in attendance at the opening session. Secretary Carlisle and Controller Eckel ) were before the House committee on bank - ing and currency, Dec. 10. Mr. Cariishi explained his proposed financial system k| detail. He says we need a more elastic currency, which is guaranteed under the new system. Controller Eckels stated that he did not favor any change that would not inspire confidence, but in thq mainagreed with Mr. Carlisle. It is said that the Democratic minority of the Indiana Senate will refuse to recogi nize the action of the Republican Senatq caucus in appointing the standing committees. They hold that it is an estab lished rule that the committees shall bo appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. I| is supposed that the rule will be set asidq in open session when the Senate convenes, In the meantime the committees appointed by the caucus, orthe Republican members at least, will proceed to carry out thq programme as laid down. * A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 8, says: The Koibites have called a halt. Capt. Kolb will not play governor any more for several months. A caucus of Kolb leaders has beeujield and a resolution was passed that they would act on the side of the law until the present ses ■ slon of the Legislature closes. If a fair election Jaw is passed Kolb’s followers will abide the result as now declared. If the law is not passed then the chairman is to call a State convention to consider a line of action. The annual convention of the National Civil Service Reform League, convened at Chicago, Dec. 13. Carl Schurz, president of the league, made an address reviewing the course of the present administration, and criticising its shortcomings. Mr. Schurz thinks the cause of civil service reform has advanced under Mr. Cleveland, but was very severe upon Secretary Carlisle and Josiah Quincy, first assistant Secretary of State, for their disregard of civil service rules. ~

Justice Harlan at Washington, Dec. 10, handed down a decision of the United States Supreme Court which affirmed the constitutionality of the Massachusetts statute as to oleomargarine, and which prevents the manufacturers of that article in Chicago and elsewhere from selling in Massachusetts oleomargarine which has been artificially colored in imitation of yellow butter. The case was regarded as a test, and establishes the right ol commonwealths to limit the sale of oleomargarine. At New York, Dec. 10, John Garvev' the tramp who “achieved greatness” by going to sleep in an “Astor bed” some time ago, was convicted ol illegally entering John Jacob Astor’s house. He may be sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for the offense. Since his arrest Garvey has slept twenty-three hours every day, and grudgingly devoted the other hour to his meals. He slept all through his trial in the courtroom, and was peacefully slumbering when the jury returned its verdict.

2 The new treaty between Japan and the United States, published Dec. 10, recognizes Japan as unenlightened nation. All previous treaties have been based on the theory that Japan was still in a semi* barbarous condition. Tho right of Japan to make her own tariff laws is recognized. The United States secures many substantial advantages. Missionaries are guar* an teed freedom of worship and full pro* tection, and Americans now have the privelege to travel into tho interior of the country, which has hitherto been inac cessible. Three men who were beating their way on a freight train were taken from a boxcar at Fostoria, 0., Sunday. Two were dead and the third nearly so. The third man said they were from Auburn, Ind., looking for work. They had reached Deshler, O„ in the box car when foui men suddenly entered the car and demanded their money. Being refused, they began shooting, and his companion! were killed outright. The robbers then took all the money, (12.50, that the party had, ana escaped. The living man has seven bullet wounds and will die. Th* robbers aresupposed to have been tramps, but as the car was dark no description ul them can be given.

FOREIGN, It was announced tn the Reichsrath al Budapest, Dec. 10, that the King of Hungary had given his sanction to tho billt which provide for complete religious freedom in Hungary. The announcement was received with an enthusiastic demonstration without precedent in the Reichsrath. The Japanese have landed an army ol 25,000 men near Takhu, only eighty milci from Peking. A detachment has also occupied Fuchow, seventy-five miles nortk of Port Arthur. The Chinese are retreat* ing, and It la expected that tho Japanese armies will combine for an attack ot Poking.