Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Moody and Sankey will corfduct a series bf revival meetings in the City of Mexico tn April. _j_' ; ( Thomas Williams, “Prince rft the Gypsies,” died at his home in Hartford, Conn., last week. Salt Lake City is rejoicing oyer natural "gas piped to* the city from the wells fourteen miles distant. Presidenr Cleveland is having great success on his duck hunting trip off the North Carolina coast. Professor Wiggins predicts that the recent eclipse of the moon will be followed by earthquakes in both hemispheres. The bill granting women the right to vote for certain township officers was dc-...featcd-in .the JJlinois Senate by one vote. Secretary Gresham is suffering from catarrh of the stomach and his condition gives his family and friends much uneasiness. The Pennsylvania Housed Representatives has passed the bill prohibiting the wearing of any religious garb or insignia by teachers in the public schools. The consolidation of the great electrical manufacturing interests of the country, to include such corporations as the Westinghouse and General Electrical Company, is now talked of. 4Philadelphia capitalists have formed a company with a capital stock of $1,000,000 to operate the extensive coal fields of Peru. They have received a concession from the Peruvian government and will ship the output to Pacific coast points. The workshop of Nicola Tesla, the famous electrician, at New York, was destroyed by fire, March 13, It is feared tlie disaster may result in the physical collapse bf thei great inventor. lie has long been in a state bordering on exhaustion through overwork. Harry Hayward was sentenced to be hung at Minneapolis, March 11, after serving a jail sentence of three months, the date of : the execution to be fixed by the Governor of Minnesota. Hayward received the sentence without the slightest exhibition of feeling. over the atrocious shooting of Italians inspected of the murder of Hixon, near —Waldenburg, Col. Itaflaueonstrls-atDcn-ver and New York are making rigid inquiries into the matter and will probably demand indemnity. The hotel of J. D. Jenkins, at Maceyrllle, W. Va., was burned, Wednesday eight. Three lives were lost and four perlons wore injured. The hotel was in the “lumber region. The loss was only $5,000, but nothing was saved. All who escaped were in their night clothes. Charles Teigs, a Chicago house mover, was found dead in bed, having killed himrel f wI th poison because judgmen t In, a breach of promise suit against him had been awarded to Mrs. Matilda Stuart. Several months ago Teigs, who was a widdower, advertised for a wife, Mrs. Stuart tnswered and they became engaged, but later the house mover changed his mind and.refused to marry. Mrs. Stuart sued for damages, and Teigs decided to die because the verdict was against him. Reports from Floyd county, Ky., arc ire not encouraging for the suppression of the strange malady that is raging in the Mud River country. It has become so violent that physiciansof the surrounding towns refuse to visit victims. In all the death roll has exceeded fifty and the plague is on the increase. The disease -resembles cholera, except that it chokes the victim to death, beginning in the itomach and rising to the throat. In almost every case it has been fatal, the victims seldom living three days from the t'ttack. The argument on the income tax question before the Supremo Court was completed. Wednesday. A decision is not expected for some time. Should the law be leclared unconstitutional and void, it is predicted that an extra session of Contress will be Galled to provide for the expenses of the government. It is alleged by government officials at Washington lhat expenses are constantly exceeding receipts and if the revenue anticipated trom the income tax falls relief will be Imperative. A remarkable trio of female shoplifters were arrested at Pittsburg, Pa., March 14. The women were sisters—Mfs. Stakefey, Mrs. Cohont and their single sister, Annie Denison, aged nineteen. A fifty yard bolt of silk was found on the person of Mrs. Cohont when she was arrested. Search warrants were secured and the houses of the women were searched. Goods to the value of $20,000 were recov?red, but this is believed to be only a nnall part of their stealings. It is thought they have been at work in Pittsburg for tight years. Ex Governor Campbell, at Hamilton, 0., had a close call for his life, March 13. Ho was at supper, and after taking a drink of water staggered to his feet in great pain. It was discovered that the water was strongly impregnated with ammonia. Investigation led to the discovery that the servant had placed a bottle of ammonia in the icechest which had spilled into the drinking water. Antidotes were administered and it was thought that the ox-Governor would recover from the. effeqts although ho suffered great pain. Anomalous as It may appear, cloth is being sold in the English markets and right in the -center of the English manufacturing districts. United States Consul Meeker, who has reported the fact to the State Department, states that a representative of an American house has been buying English cloth in England, and has at the same time been selling American cloth there. The American cloth is woolen stuff suitable for coatings and men’s suitings, selling at from 50 to 00cents per yard. The English merchants pronounce It to be superior cloth for the grade, made of short wool, and cannot see how it can be produced and sold for the price, > The mob which waylaid the Italian, murderers near Walsenburg, Col., and killed four Italians and tlie driver of the wagon, as they weye returning from the Hixon luqncst, completed, their revenge Wednesday night, by making a raid on the Walsenburg jail. They overpowered the guards and secured the keys to the cell where two other Italians suspected of complicity were confined. Tlie mob poured volley after volley into the suspected men. When the last bullpt had boon fired that was thought necessary to avenge ona death with six the men who Ind done the latest piece of killing

walked out from the jail into the night. A moment or two later the keep-! era of the two guards backed out through the door and closed it behind them.