Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Standard Telephone Com pany has been organ ized a t New Y orkwi th a paid - up capital of $160,000,000. The suit of Oscar ’■Wilde against the Marquis of Queensbury for slander began ■ at ijundon; tysatiwaf. It is uhdfirstood at, Washington that -Great-Britain will refuse to arbitrate the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The sugar trust issued a circular to the sugar brokers of New York, asking them not to handle any foreign sugar. M-. Stone, a veterari editor, iden- . tided with numerous journals in New York, died in that city, April 2. The sixty-fifth annual conference o the Mormon Church convened in the Tabernaeic at Salt Lake City. April 5. —-Harry Comstock, an o ted tr aveler an d lecturer, committed suicide at Fulton, N. Y.„ Friday, by taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Paran Stevens, one of the- most prominent society leaders of New York, died of pneumonia in that city, April 3. A tornado that swept across Boone Bounty, Kentucky, did great damage to - property and injured a number of -perlons. Western cattie raisers are organizing to fight the dressed beef combine. The price »f beef is reported to be advancing rapidly In various cities , The Hon. Robert P. Porter, cx-snperin- -■ teiidch t of - the census and formerly editor of the New York Press, has purchased the Cleveland World.

The golden jubilee of the Methodise Episcopal Church, South, will be held in Louisville, May 1, and extensive preparations are being made for the event. Ex-Senator Ransom, the now minister to Mexico, arrived in the City of Mexico. Wednesday night. lie will b» officially received by President Diaz next week. .Rev. William HCleveland, brother of President Cleland, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Chaumont, near Watertewn. N. Y.. has been requested to resign. 4t-is-re-perted-that politics is the cause of the trouble. The. Rev. Charles Rowland Hill, the sidy son and heir of the late Viscount Hill, who died in London, England, a few lays ago, is a resident of Tonka, Kan., md is an Episcopal clergyman connected with Grace Cathedral, • W. P. Fuller & Co., of San Francisco, who have for years controlled the Pacific toast petroleum trade, have formed a tombination with the Standard Oil Company. and petroleum had advanced two tents a gallon on the coast. An explosion in a ship chandler’s store it New Orleans, Thursday night, demolished several buildings and resulted in the death of fifteen or more persons. A Itock of power was kept in the ship thandler’s store, but it is not known how it was ignited. Walter W. Overly, who at one time was t prominent society young man in Kansas City, and who married a daughter of an ifficial of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, has been sentenced to two fears’ imprisonment at San Antonio, Tex., for forgery. General Mahone has executed a deed of trust to Edmund Waddell, of Richmond, Va..-conveying his residence and houselold goods (n Petersburg, and other real (state, to secure holders of notes amounting toj $80,050. Ills daughter, Otelia B. Mahone. holds S66,(XX) of these notes. The train..robbers who were surrounded by a posse near Hennessey, O. T., Friday, made their escape that night, and, going to a preacher’s house, robbed him of valuables and two horses and escaped. The preacher pursued and was later found on the prairie riddled with bullets. On the historic site of the old capitol of Seorgia, at Atlanta, Venable Bro's., the treat granite firm that owns Stone nountain, will erect within the five nonths intervening before the opening of Iho exposition a magnificent granite hotel ten stories high and fire-proof. It will be operated by the Lelands. A great Cuban mass meeting was held it Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday night, in behalf of the Cuban cause. Resident Cu-

bans and Americans took part. Resolnlions were passed asking the Florida Legislature to endorse the rebel cause, and arging the Federal Government to recognize the Cuban patriots as belligerents. Newton Walters, ago nineteen, killed two brothers, George and James Cox, while duck hunting, near Galena. Kas. He then attempted to assault Miss Dollie Box, who was ..alone at home. The girl rave the alarm and Walters fled. One of the Cox boys was found in the woods with t bullet holo in his head. The .other is ■opposed to have been thrown into the river. A generous offer of Marshall Field to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union is announced. Mr. Field promises 125,030 with the proviso that 1275,000 may be raised by Jan. 1,1896. It is intended that this total sum bo applied on tho debt iverhanging tho Woman’s Temple at Chicago. The building of the Woman’s Temple is tlie greatest financial enterprise in which a coterie of women have engaged. A Rock Island train was “held up” near Dover, Ok. T., Thursday night, by five mounted men. The passengers gave up their money and valuables on demand. It Is supposed but 1300 in cash was secured. Later a posse organized by U. S. Marshal Madson overtook the gang, and in tho fight that ensued “Rattlesnake Bill,” a notorious outlaw, was shot and killed. Tho others escaped. 2The charge of drunkenness, made by Rev. Mr. Lansing, of Boston, at the New England Conference at Salem, Mass., xgainst President Cleveland, last week, lias aroused great indignation among (hading men of all parties, especially in Uew York city. The World, Monday, jrjnted Interviews with Chauncey Depew. Frederick Coudett, Rev. Mr. Vibbert, of Trinity Chapel, and others, all .of whom iharacterlzed the statement of Mr. Lansing as “untrue, ridiculous and contemptible.” William L. Wilson took the oath of office as Postmaster-General at Washington, WednesdayiApMl 3. Chief Justice Fuller officiating, and entered upon tho active discharge of his duties, April 4. The change was made sooner than had been expected, on account of Mr. Bissell's private business. Mr. Bissell left tor New York. April 4. The Chicago Post prints a sensational story regarding tho disappearance of a >500,000 Democratic campaign fund, The Post states that the managers of tho recent campaign, in which the Democratic nominee, Winter, was defeated charge his

defeat tp a lack of necessary funds and a Iso c h arge that an enormous su m has “been appropriated by five or six men high 4mthe Democratic political circles of the city. the Posit says, was raised by assessmen t of ctiy H»n employes and otliers and amounted to about $500,000. The State Democratic central committee of. Illinois has issued a-call fora State convention at Springfield,/'June 4, to conSider the currency q uest ion and decide or the policy of the party for the campaign of 1896. Hon. Elias J. Hale, of Fo.xcroft, Me., committed suicide by shooting last week. He was .Judge of the Probate Court and town trustee. An investigation has resulted in disclosures which show him to be a defaulter to the extent of $75,000. Judge llale was universally respected, lie was not under bond and the various funds suffering have no recourse, his property, of which there is but little, beingin his wife’s name. Alfred Jonasson, the sailor who has been working on a flying machine at New York, for some .time, tested his contriy, ance, April 3. The powerful electric battery was started, and With a powerful rush the fore and aft propellers revolved at the rate of 300 revolutions a minute. Before Jonasson could mount iiis flying hobby there was a terrible crash and a shower of splintered woodwork, for the whole apparatus had burst. The sailor will again go before the mast to earn more money to invest in his pet project. „The amounts of gold, silver and platinum produced in Russia during the yeat 185)3 are—shown in a report to the State Department by Consul-General John Karel, at St. Petersburg. The entire production of gold in 1896 was 2,732 poods, o| about thirty-six pounds each. Out of the 2.253 gold mines in the Ural belonging tn private persons, 806 were worked. Thirteen others belonging to the government were leased. Gold to the value of $23,643,000 was coined by the St. Petersburg minte About 11,003 pounds of platinum were produced, an increase of about nine per cent, over 1892, The price fluctuated between $l6O and SIBO a pound. The total weight of silver products during the year ivas about thirteen tons. „ 1A new resort for consumptives has been discovered in theOrango Free State. South Africa. United States Consular Agent Landgraf in a report to the State department toils of the beneficial result experienced by persons who have tried it, and adds: “No country on earth can rank with the Orange Free State as a health resort, Mr. Paterson had been all over the world and nowhere else found any relief. I could give numbers of similar cases, and that so few people have come here it due to the fact that the Orange Free State is so little known and in most parts of the world believed to be a desert, inhabited by-brutal natives and wild beasts. The country is pretty well populated and cub tivated.—Living is rather expensive and persons coming here should command from SSO to S6O per month.