Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Oil went up to 52 as Pittsburg, Monday. There are thirty-nine cases of smallpox . •t Shdwneetow-n, 111. Senator Elkins, of West Va., has defoHreesitrerr Depver is preparing to hold an international mining and industrial exposition. Oil at Pittsbnrg, A[jr 1110,closeiat $1.45. Brokers.predicted S 3 oil in a few days. There 1° a coal war at Cleveland and “prices are being slashed by the Massillon j dealers. - It is announced that Secretary Carlisle j will be a candidate for United States, Sen- I tor from Kentucky. Sing Wan. a Chicago Chinaman, has ' Peen Sentenced to the penitentiary lor two years on a charge of perjury. Repres mtatiyes of 15i).0 iO shoemakers of the Now England States are in session at Boston to form a great union. The propertieaof the Whisky Trust are to be sold to the highest bidder The Trust ■o longer has a legal existence. H L. Wheeler, a Chicago chemist, is said to have discovered a new compound that is sweeter that saccharine. Patrick Benson, an Oakland Cal . attorney, has received information that he has fallen heir to an estate of 8875,000 in Scotland James W, Scott, chief owner and editor •f the Chicago Times-Herald, died at the Holland House,""New York, April 14 from apoplexy The Michigan Senate has passed a bill to repeal the law under' which Roman Catholic bishops can hold church property in trust. The Texas Supreme Court holds that the owners of abutting property cannot -be assessed for the cost-of street-improve-ment and sidewalks, Secretary Morton thinks a combine may have something to do with the high prices of beef in New York and the East, and has started an investigation. William Shoe, a boy of fifteen, living at Weaver Station, 0., was furnished with liquor by William Arlington, a ruffian, and the effect caused his death. President Cleveland signed himself “Grover Cleveland, citizen-at-large,” to his income tax return. Officials are in doubt as to Mr. Cleveland’s legal place of residence. The body of W. J. Aull, of Dayton. 6., who, with ..hiswife, was drowned at the time of the wreck of the New Orleans Steamer Longfellow, at Cincinnati, March 8, was found, Thursday, below Ludlow*, Ky. . ■ ' < The largest personal wine deal ever made in California was consummated, last Week, when F. Chealler & Co., of San Francisco, bought from Dowdell & Co., of St. Helena, 41)0,000 gallons of dry wine, which is now stored there. I A jury in Chicago gave George W, Con- ; trey judgment for f 50,000 against Jacob Echweinfurth, the Rockford "Messiah,'’ for alienating the affections of Mrs. Condrey by inducing her to enter his “heaven. ’ A large force of men has been cleaning away the jungle along the projected route nf the Nicaragua canal and making other ; preparations for the visit of the commissioners reported as likely to start soon from Washington. Senator Palmer announces that he will fight the free silver Democrats of Dlinois to a finish. Ho says the recent call fora State convention at Springfield was issued as a moans of entrapping the Democratic party into the silver movement. The annual report of the American Tobacco Company shows a surplus of $4013,227, after deducting the income tax and dividend on the preferred stock. After deducting the dividend on the common stock the surplus is $1,835,227. The total surplus on Dec. 31,1894, was $7,198,290.

Tho Woman’s Literary Club or Balti more decided unanimously to withdraw from membership in the National Federation of Woman’s Clubs. The Federation decided to admit clubs of colored women, and it is understood that the club s withdrawal is intended to show disapproval of this action. Col. Bass, of Carrollton, Ga., owns a farm near that place. Friday last his man plowed up a lot of old Mexican and Spanish coins. One of tho Spanish pieces bears the date of 1746. Tho value of tho find was considerable, and the proceeds will be given to the old man who plowed them up. Mrs. M. C. Bright, widow of tho late Hon. M. C. Bright, and mother of Col. R. J. Bright. Sorgoapt-at-Armsof the United States Senate, died at Washington City, April 13, aged Mrs. Bright was a resident of Madison for forty years, and of Indianapolis for fifteen years. The burial took place at Crown Hill cemetery at Indianapolis. American cracked oats have l found a groat market in Germany. The agrarians are organizing an opposition to their use on account of tho extent to which this product has supplanted tho German article which is ground into fine Hour. Tho agrarians, are ...deterrn i nod not to al low any American agricultural product to enter into competition with their own, and if they can not fsxclnde It on hygienic grounds they will demand from their government a prohibitive tariff. Miss Francis Willard, now in London In an interview, April It, defended Lady Henry Somerset from tho charges made by Mr. Hicks at New York, recently. She states that to her own knowledge Lady Somerset’s record is perfectly clear and consistent, and that she not only does not rent property for improper purposes, but Is even now engaged In a lawsuit with her trustees because of her refusal to renew the license of the Whitehall hotel at Rlegate, near London, which is her property. The trustees state that Lady Somerset's action has depreciated tho value of her own and other property. E. R.Hunter, a commission man at the Chicago Stock Yards, was mysteriously killed with a brick while sitting at his desk in his office, Friday evening. Saturday at thetmeetlng In tho Live Stock Exchange more than ono thousand persons were present, and W. C. Brown, a prominent dealer, shouted, In tho course of his •peceh, “If we can find the coward whoso brtually murdered our comrade last night I am In favor of disposing of him without waiting for tho law.'* For an Instant there was a dead silence In tho groat hall •f tho Stock Exchange, then from a thousand throats came cheer after cheer, unNbthe building fairly shook. There Is no to tho assassin. •»; A eeolutlon has been Introduced in the

ing for a separate government for Cool cotihty. The resolution recites that th. rapid and unprecedented growth of Chi cago renders it necessary for special law( to be enacted by every legislature. Thinterests of Chicago are in many instance; -directlyopposed to thoso.ot thw State aprovides - that”of and after January 1, 1898. Cook ebuntj shall be governed by a general assembly composedTof seventeen senators and fiftyone representatives. Provision is math ffor tho division of Cook conn ty In to d isj tricts, and the general election laws of tin State shall govern, the election of such senators and representatives. Theresa lution was referred. Prof. James E. Keeler, of the Allegheny Observatory, has m atfe a wonderful astronomical positive demonstration of fact that th< ring of Saturn is made up of many small bodies, and that the satellites onlhe innej edge of the ring move more; rapidly that those of the outer edge. From photographs taken at the observatory, it haL been found that the inner edge of the rinj moves faster than the outer edge. Th» action of the different parts of the ring, in miles persecond, can only be given aftei the photographs have been accurately measured under a microscope.— In the United States Court at Chicago, April 15, Judge Showalter enjoined Siegel. Cooper & Co., from making any return to the internal revenue collector under the provisions of the income tax law. The restraining order was granted on a bill filed by Gerson Siegel, one of the New York stockholders in the defendant corporation. The bill attacks the law and, under the order, the Government will bo compelled to take part in the proceedings to defend the operation of the law. Thij contentions of the New York stockholders’bill are that the law is unconstitutional because it is class legislation. n<;| uniform in its application to all citizens, and imposes a tax on incomes from certain sources where the principal from which the income is derived is exempt from taxation. Zion’s Herald, of Boston, the organ o| New England Methodism, editorially cen sures Rev. Dy. Lansing for making the charge of drunkimness against President Cleveland, and states that, the testimony brought out by the scandal has demonstratea that Mr. Cleveland did not even taste intoxicating liquor on the occasion on which Mr. Lansing charged that he was drunk. In conclusion the Herald said: "While we have no doubt that Mr, Lansing fully accredited the information as reliable on which he based his assertion, there seems now to be for him no other manly and Christian course than to humbly confess his indiscretion and to ask President Cleveland and an indignant i public to condone his wrong. Of course. I- the ministers of the New England Con- ' ference and the membership of the Methodist Church as a whole utterly disclaim all responsibility for this rash charge.”