Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Col. Horace Scott, the well known r aflroadman, died at Louisville,’ Jan. 24. Senator Chandler was re-elected by the joint convention, at’ Concord, N. H., Jan, 15, - ' \ ? _ y \ Another murder is charged to the New Mafia. The victim was Tony Chisesi. lately from Chicago. A Kansas City Judge decided that life insurance companies must pay policies, although the insured committed suicide. Ft. Worth.Texrrbusiness men have organizedwith $1,000,000 capital to hold an exposition next year to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of tljp admission of Texas into the Union. ‘ George Mullihan and Moses Elliott have been held without bail on charge of murder in the first degree for the lynching of Barrett Scott, the defaulting ex-treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska. The California assembly, demanding that Congress defeat any refunding scheme for the Pacific railroads and demanding the foreclosure of the government, mortgages against the roads.

1 The Carnegie company, it is said, on good authority, is contemplating ihe shanging of their Homestead steel plant to admit of the manufacture of cannon to compete with the Bethlehem works, and even the great Krupp himself. The snow is from forty to fifty feet deep in some places In the mountains of California. Hundreds of men are atf work in trying to keep the railroad tracks clear. On tho Oregon shortline traffic will be pAibably stopped for some days yet. H. H. Culver, the St. Louis millionaire, who has done so much for the development of Maxinkuckee, is to establish there during the coming summer a female seminary, which will be operated in conjunction with the present flourishing military academy. He expects to hake it one of the leading educational institutions of the West. The boundary dispute between Mexico ind Gautemala seems likely to result in war. Tuesday, President Diaz notified the Guatemala Minister at the City of Mexico that he would not concede one inta, and that Guatemala must accede to the demands of Mexico or suffer the con■equences. The war feeling ran high in the city and there was great excitement. Students and young men to the number of 15,003 filled the streets shouting “Viva Diaz!” “On to Guatemala!” A dangerous counterfeit *2 bill is afloat ih the Western States. It is a splendid copy of the two dollar silver certificate Dearing the portrait of Secretary Windom. It is impossible to make a perfect copy of Anything, and in this instance the counserfeiters, although far above the average ih the execution of their work, have left a few 1 ittle flaws by which the ex pert ean ietect the bad money ata glance. One point is this: In all the counterfeits the irst three numbers are invariably 414, and n every instance the tail has been left off ! .he 4, giving it a chopped off appearance.

Who is alleged' to have ’"concocted and carried out the. plot to murder Miss Ging and get her money. Now on trial at Minneapolis.

fanitorofthe Ozark flat”.'Minneapolis, who met Miss Ging, and who was induced to kill -her.

HARRY HAYWARD,

CLAUS A. BLIXT,