Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

l Mrs. Lease has declined to run for 'Mayor of Wichita. j ' Five cases of small pox developed at Cinnd a,y. v 1 Gov. McKinley is seriously ill with influenza at Thomaaville, Ga. The United States Cordage Company has fold its Chicago plant to thd Deerings, its former owners. ? “ A gefieral strike of 'the textile fabric ■workers in the Providence, R. 1., district Is expected. Three negroes, suspected of barn burning, are reported to have been lynched near Tyler, Ala. The Reid Bros, packing establishment at Kansas City w.yi burn"! »»ip -'^nmtay —- Efforts to stop the beer war at Chicago, that has been been going on for several 1 months, have failed. •John O’Donnell, aged fifteen, of Westvlilc. N. J.. is under arrest for cracking the safe of a local store. Sixty-one victims of the mine horror at Red " Canon, Wyo., were buried, Sunday, with impressive ceremonies. During a storm in Alabama a woman and her son were killed and the husband totally blinded by lightning. It is feared that-tho order restoring separate Catholic schools in Manitoba will result In an open religious war. Jim Morrison, a notorious murderer and counterfeiter, of Alabama, was killed while resisting arrest near Toadville. Minister Thurston is now accused of having instigated editorials in the New York papers attacking the administration. Counsel for llarry Hayward sentenced to I e hanged for the murder of Catherine Gingat, Minneapolis, has asked for a new trial. The PAraerlcan Baptist Missionary JJnion is financially ombarassed. Its last fiscal year was closed with a deficit of 5200.000. The Arizona Legislature ad journed in a row. without making any appropriations for the maintenance of tho State government. Judge Hicks has decided that a foreign born woman who comes to the United States and marries a citizen of this tountry becomes a citizen of the United Mates. Reports from the rice planters of the Savannah district show that tho acreage planted there this year will be fully as treat as that of last year and probably

greater- ; W. Caivin Chase was sentenced to ninety Says’imprisonment for libeling C. H. J. Taylor, negro Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The State Senato at Augusta, Mo. onanimously adopted by a rising vote a resolution to make Abraham Lincoln’s birthday a national holiday. A tornado devastated Augusta. Ga„ March 20. At least a dozen houses were destroyed. The extent of the damage throughout the country is unknown, Thomas Ranch, the desperado of the Btnte of Washington, who is known as the “Jesse James of the Northwest,’’ was killed by officers at Kent, Wash,, Thursday. * It, Is learned from an ecclesiastical auihority very near to Archbishop Corrigan that the latter received f,1,000 as his fee for performing the Uould-Castcllnnc wedding icremony. The marble monument of Heinrich Heine, rejected in Germany because of his republican utterances, will bo erected in Central Park, Now York, by Germantmericans. Grand Rapids. Minn., surgeons are interested in the case of Charles Olson, who lelies all precedents by living with the lop of his head off and the brain cavity llmost empty. Lycurgus Dalton, of Indiana, postmas ler of the House of Representatives, died it Washington, Sunday, Mr. Dalton was t native of Bedford, Ind. He had been leriously ill for a year, Lewis Pay no. a negro herihit, known as 'Uncle Frank,” who lived in acavoin llio rocks above Kanawha Falls, OT. was mind dead im his cave He was believed 10 no nearly one hundred years old. W. C. Chapman, of Chicago, once a nisslonary to Liberia, warns negroes not Jo emigrate to that country. Ho claims •hat it is extremely malarious and danterous for all foreigners, white or colored. A fatal gas explosion occurred in the Rocky Mountain coal company’s mine No. 5, at Red Canon, Wyo., Wednesday ivening. The death roll numbers fifteen »ud an unknown number of monaroenlorabed in the mine. Edward Fox, known as “Modoc,” a icwspapcr reporter of Now York, who acinired some notoriety by an interview with Sitting Bull following the Big Horn Massacre in which General Custer was killed, was drowned in tho Swan river, near West Australia, March 4. Lieut.-Gov. Sadler,of Nevada, elected by tho silver party last fall, lias announced his intention of ioaving that party ind going back to tho Republican fold. Sadler claims the party has not lived up to its platform pledges, and Ills action has nccasioncd some excitement In political tircles. Practically all tho whisky manufacturers of the country are now united, as a result of tins Chicago meeting, Wednesday, in the Spirits Distilling Association, pf which Receiver MeNulta, of the. whisky trust. Is chairman. This gives this assotiation absolute control of tho output of rpirits In the country. Lillie Schwartz, employed as adomestlc it Cincinnati, and sick with small pox, escaped from the control of tho Cincinnati health authorities and returned to her home at Mllliausen. She remained at the depot at Greonsburg for somo tirao talking witli friends, and sho also visited a store, where a number of peoplo were exposed to the contagion. The latest sensational dovel opment in the noted Fair will case at San Francisco Is that Insinuations are abroad that the dead millionaire died by poison, administered by persons in bis death taking place at a certain" time. Miss PtmobivOousiiis, who claims to have been the alliitnced wife of Senator Fair, broadly bints at nor suspicious thdt he had been given poison at more than one time. Tho President, Thursday, announced the following appointments: William M. Spring' r of Illinois, Judge of tho United States Court,of tho northern district of Indian Territory; Constantino Buckler Kilgore, of Texas. Judgo Of the United States Court of the southern district of t&dtun Territory. A number of appoint-

ments for United States Marshals am District Attorneys for Indian Territori were also announced. A protest has been received at tho Post office Department from Democrats at St T*eter Minn., against the action of Post-master-General Bisseli in retaining William Gresham, a brother ~oF Secretarj G esham altd a Republican, in the oflict of postmaster tirere. The office payi fl, r <oo a year. Postmaster Gresham’s terra expired Dec. 21, 1393. There were manj Democratic applicants, but all have beet informed that Secretary Gresham’s broth< er would be retained. -Hence the protest Commissioner of Pensions Lochren estimates that there will not be any decreased amount appropriated for pensions during the next three years aftei 1896. Tho amount appropriated for tilt fiscal year of 18%. in round nutubers, k 5140.000,000. For the present year tin amount was 5150,000,000, The reason foi the absence of any perceptible decrease i 3 that the falling off owing to deaths and other causes is almost counterbalanced by tho first paymonts in pension! allowed. Gen. PhTlip St. George Cook; who was Tulired from The regular army in is/4 after forty-six years of continual service, died at Detroit, March 20, aged eighty-live. Gen. Cooke was admitted to West Poinl at tin; age of fourteen, and had a remarkable military record. Although a Virgin* TanTnnlike most Southern officers —including his own son. Gen. Cooke, and his famous son in-law, Gen. Stuart—ho remained loyal during the rebellion. During tho peninsular campaign he was In command of a force directly opposite that of his son-in-law, Gen. Stuart.