Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

_ 1 Judge Ot:s. of St. "Paul, decided 'that finder the Minnesota law husbands were liable for slanderous remarks by their wives. •<Tho Popo is opposed to the use of bicycles by priests and has written a letter to that effect "to Father Jaert es Wilmington, Del. Suit has been begun at Pittsburg for the recovery of property worth several millions and occupied by the Pennsylvania and Ft. Wayne roads. Tom Winder, the Indiana bicyclist, left New-Orleans,- Feb, 4, to wheel around the -entire boundary of the United States, a distance of 21,000 miles. The legislative joint conventions of Idaho. Delaware an 1 Oregon are having trouble about the Senatorial! successions. A decisive vote cannot be had. Information reached Duluth, Minn., that nine people fcero frozen to death in the Rainy Lake country Jan. 1, when the mercury was forty-eight, degrees below zero. % The Sprcekles Sugar Refinery, at Philadelphia, which has been idle for several weeks, will resume operations on full time, The refinery employs two thousand hands. Mayor Sut.ro, of San Francisco, became Involved in a personal difficulty with Irving Scott. Monday, and bo th men were with great difficulty restrained from doing violence to each other. The pastor ot an ultra fashionable church at Butte, Mont., who has been <i ring a ser of po pul ar Sunday eve nhig - sermons, is charged with repeating the sermons of Dr. Frank Bristol, of Chicago. At Clay flail, Mo., the Rev. Budd Ellis, pastor of the. Methodist church, while deranged, killed his wife, to whom he had been married but a week, his seven-year-old daughter, by a former wife, and then himself. •A trolley car at Milwaukee, Feb. 4. plunged into an open draw bridge falling Into the river. The car broke through ~the ice. Three people were killed and six wore rescued with difficulty, receiving painful injuries. Ten men are on trial at Cullman, Ala., charged witli being members oTa White Cap band which took two men from the officers and hanged them three and onehalf years ago. Four others of the league turned State's evidence. The committee of the New York Legislature having in charge the police reorganization'bill which applies to New York city, have decided to amend it so as to give the mayor, instead of the Governor, the power to appoint police commissioners.

The Tennessee Legislative Joint Assembly which has been investigating the guborna torial election returns for some time Wednesday, reached a final conclusion that Evans (Republican) was legally elected and Mr. Evans was at once sworn tn as chief executive of the State. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has unanimously indorsed a resolution approving the general policy of President Cleveland, as statedin his recent financial message, and askirffc that it have the prompt and favorable consideration of our national legislators D. C, Harrison, of Emporia, Holt county, Nebraska, is in Sioux City soliciting aid for drought suiierers. He says there are eighteen families in that section on the verge of starvation. A Mrs. Pearson living north of Emporia, died the other day, and it is almost certain she starved to death. The funeral of the late Ward McAllister took place at Grace Church, New York, Feb. 4. The audience became a disorderly mob in an effort to secure mementoes from the floral decorations of ihejhler and coffin, and the police to force the crowd-back amidst .the most disgraceful confusion. -xL