Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The ‘Rcptibl icans were' generally • sue? cessful in the lowa town elections.' President Cleveland will go on a docking trip to the sounds of North Carolina, “Pinkeye,” which attacks both man and beast, is prevalent nehr Topeka. Kas. Black smallpox, brought) from Hot Springs 7" Ark., Is raging - malignantly in Nodaway county, Missouri. Charles Lanman, the author, at one time private secretary to Daniel Webster, died at Washington, Mar. 5, aged eighty-two. Miss Frances Willard and her private ■secretary. Miss Gordon, will go to England as the guests of Lady Henry Somerset in a short time. Thomas D. Williams, of Baltimore, a student of Johns Hopkins University, was kicked into insensibility in a light between freshman and juniors. VV . C. Coup, the oldest circus manager in the United States, died at Jacksonville, Fla.. March 4. of pneumonia. Mr. Coup was born in Pennsylvania in 1826. HOTstarted his first show in 1853. 8 Resolutions of congratulation upon the adjournment of Congress were passed, Tuesday, in both houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature, In the lower House the resolution was seconded by a Democrat. 4 A statemen t made in New York, Tuesday. by William E. Hicks, the reformer, that many of Lady Henry Somerset’s houses in London were tenanted by disreputable people is creating discussion' that may lead to investigation of the charges. Richmond, Ky.. had a street fight, Monday night, between policemen and Tom Graves, a mountain desperado, who was drunk. He fired as he rode through the -principal streets. The officers chased and' "shot Graves In the head, back and shouP" ders, but he rode a mile before falling from his horse. Mrs. Alva E. Vanderbilt was granted a divorce, from W, K. Vanderbilt at New York, March 5. Mrs. Vanderbilt is given custody of the three,children and is given permission to marry again when she pleases. Mr. Vanderbilt is required to ♦tay single while his first wife is alive. Mrs. Vanderbilt is given ample alimony horn the millionaire’s vast estate.

Jo Dean, a negro, was hanged at Fairburn, Ga., March 1. for the murder of a farmer. By order of the court the execution was to be private, but the crowd of 5,0 0 excited people that had assembled tore down the high fence erected around the gallows and made it public. The wretched n.*an had to be hanged twice. The first time the rope broke. Like a dead man he was taken back on the scaffold and again swung off. Meantime his hands had become untied, and in his frantic contortions he disrobed himself. The steamship Australia arrived ’at San. Francisco, March 2, from Honolulu.! Arxong tho passengers were thirteen oxiles from the Hawaiian Islands. Dispatches from Honolulu via the Australia state that tho sentences of death prononneei: against the- plotters have been commuted to thirty-five years imprisonment and u. tine bf SIO,OOO each. President Dole has bqen inclined to bo merciful from tho first. Evidence accumulates that the Queen was Vetrayed into tho hands of the provisional government by tlfose in whom she had placed implicit confidence. The anti-lottery bill, signed by tho President Monday, specifies that "any person who shall cadse to bo brought within the United States from abroad for the purpose of disposing of the same, or to be deposited in or carried by the mails of the United States, or carried from one State to another in tho United States, any paper certificate or instrument purporting to be or represent a ticket of chance, snare or Interest m-or dependent on the event of a lottery, so-called gift or similar enterprise, offering prizes dependent upon lottery or chance, or shall cause any gift concern or similar enterprise, offering prizes dependent upon lot or chance, to be brought into the United States,- or deposited in or carried by tlje mails of tho United States, or transferred from one State to another in-the same, shall bo punishable in the first offense by imprisonment for no more than two years or by a tine of no more t han $1,009. or both, and In the second and after offenses by such imprisonment only,”