Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — TBE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

TBE NEWS OF THE WEEK

> —‘ * , Milwaukee hai an extcnsiye. fire. Tuesday night. Loss, over $1,000,000. Hagenbeck’s celebrated trained anima! show will he sold at auction in Chicago, x>wing to financial reverses. Gov. McKtnlqy and party were in Washington, Monday, and called on the President. A smoking raoimtam-haa been d iscov • ered in the Choctaw country. It is believed to bo an inactive volcano. The Government exhibit for the Atlanta Exposition is now being prepared al Washington. It will be elaborate. _ The thermometer at Topeka, Kansas, March 29. registered 91 degrees, the highest March temperature ever recorded at that stationr^—” John Y. McKane, the Gravesend boss, now in Sing Sing, is reported to bo insane. His hallucination is that he is “to be released to-morrow?*’-' ■■■■ ■_ Mr. Willis, our minister to Hawaii, will take a leave of absence because of tha Thurston affair. He maybe recalled and diplomatic relations with Hawaii altogether broken off. Latest telegrams from Tampa, Fla., state that tho Cuban revolution is growing. Four out'of tho five provinces have now been declared in a state of revolution by the Spanish government.— Cardinal Gibbons in a sermon at Baltimore, last Sunday, denounc id the Slatterys and other “ex-priests” for their, as the Cardinal claimed, unwarranted assaults upon the Catholic church. Maggie Tiller, colored, was sentenced to be hanged, Marcli 26, at Chicago, foi the murder of Charles Miller. If the sentence Is carried out it will be the first execution of a woman which ever occurred in t hicago. A personal encounter between Senatoi Stewart and Sergeant-at-Arms Stewart 1 In the Nebraska State Senate at Lincolh, Thursday,rprpcipitated a free-for-all fight, in which a number of Senators took a hand. A secret, movement is said to be under way, managed by Cuban revolutionists in New York and Jacksonville, to organize an army Of 75.000 men, which will be all landed in Cuba at once, to aid tho revolutionists. Morris St. P. Thomas, one of the bestknown members of the Chicago bar, is dy Ing, the result of blood poisoning. His illness was brought about by a slight cut on the hand. by the breaking Of i) glass in a picture at his home. It is said that the Vanderbilt interests have purchased tho People’s lino of steamers and will add to It two new boats, costing $1,500,000, so as to practically control tho passenger and freight business between New York and Albany. The PostolTico Department has issueij an order for the stoppage of all mail sots the Honduras Lottery Company, including letters addressed to E. J. Demorest or in care of the Central American Express. Demorest is president of the lottery. Parker Crittenden, James G. Ilulse andj John \V. Hill, all of Chicago, have incorporated the Interocean Electric Company, with a capital of $200,000,000. The com-. pany was formed to operate a graintransportation electric railway, invented by Mrs. M. E. Beasley, from New York to Chicago, and finally to-the Pacificcoast. Tho President, Monday, received a representative delegation of Chicagoans, wh} bclralf-orf tr number of thcrteadirri citizens of Chicago, irrespective of parta affiliations to invite the President to rj public reception to bo tendered to himself and Mrs. Cleveland as expressive of tlioij appreciation of bis steadfast insistence oq the preservation of a sound national currency. The Commercial Bank, one of tho oldest banks in Cincinnati, of which Charloj 11. Foote is President and W. W. 11. Campbell cashier, suspended and made an assignment to the latter, Wednesday afternoon. It Is reported that the affairs of the bank will develop badly. It lias q paid-up capital stock of $328,000 and a surplus of $£0,003. Its average deposits were SIOO,OOO. In October, 1394, while a special train bearing George J. Gould and friends was sweeping through Roan, at a high rate ol speed, it collided with a carriage in which George Jones was seated, killing him and his horses. Tho widow brought suit for slo.ooodamages, Mr. Gould made inquiries concerning the plaintiff, and, through his advice, a compromise was reached by which tho railway company pays tha plaintiff $3,00), to which is added SI,OOO from Gould’s private purse.