Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Navigationon Lake Erie Is open. Oil went up to $2 as Pittsburg, Monday. The Chlcasaw war is said to have been la newspaper ••fake.” ' The much dreaded army worm has made ..:1a annearancc in parts of Ken tueky. Unless Governor Stone interferes seven men will, be hanged in Missouri, April 20. American beef in England has not fol-a lowed the advance in America, but has recently actually decreased in price. President Havemeyer has announced the opening of all the Trust refineries, the surplus stock having been worked off. The oil market at Pittsburg. Tuesday, ■was feverish. The highest price reached was $2.54. Themarket closed at $2.50, " Secretary of State Gresham is said to bo < free silver man and will not support the administration in the stand taken'on the money question. A great flood has prevailed in the Merimac river. At Concord, N. H., the waters reached a point two feet above the highwater mark of the great flood of 1869. i The Association of Iron and Steel Manufacturers met at Pittsburg, April 17, and advanced the price of all finished products one-tenth of a cent a pound or $2 a ton. ■ President Cleveland signed himself “G ro v erCl evel an d, citizen-at-large,"to his income tax return. Officials are in doubt as to Mr. Cleveland’s legal place of residence. The sash, door and blind trust has been

revived at Chicago with a membership of thirty-nine firms, representing a capital of $2C,000,000. Prices and output .will be controlled. - . There was a break in the oil market at Pittsburg, April 18, and prices “slumped” from 12.62 to 12.10. Leading speculators predict five-dollar oil before tho excitement subsides. Ex-Senator Ingalls has declared for free •nd unlimited coinage of silver and wants the Republican party to nominate a Presidential candidate next year who is personally favorable to that principle. Three hundred men employed by the Chicago City Railroad Company in tho construction of its electric lines, struck because their request for an increase in wages from $1.25 tosl.sOperday was refused. . The Utah constitutional convention has fixed the following as the yearly salary of the State oflicers: Governor, $2,000; Secretary of State, J 2.000; Auditor. 11,500; Treasurer, $1,000; Attorney General,sl,soo; Superintendent qf Public Instruction, 11,500. Secretary of Agriculture Morton has Issued an order modifying the regulations of Februrary 11,1895, concerning the importation of animals into the United States so far as they relate to Mexican cattle, on account of the great rise in the price of beef. At Bloomsburg, Pa., Walters. Hays, a Sjtate League base ball player, was stabbed and killed by Casper Thomas, seventynine years old. Hays threatened to murfler the old man, whereupon the latter turned upon his would-be slayer and and killed him in self-defense. - The annual report of the American Tobacco Company shows a surplus of $4#13,227, after deducting the income tax and dividend on tho preferred stock. After deducting the dividend on the common stock the. surplus is $1,865,227. The total surplus on Dec. 31, 1894, was $7,198,#9O. 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 the Spanish pieces bears the date of 1746. Tho value of the find was considerable, and the proceeds will be given to the old man who plowed them up. Senator Jones, of Nevada, in an open tetter to ex-Congressman Sibley, makes tn urgent appeal in behalf of silver. He believes the money question to be of the first importance and holds it to be the Buty of the people to study the issue in ardor to be prepared for the campaign o 1896.

Fitzsimmons may not bo able to raise the balance of the forfeit money for the proposed fight with Corbett, He has 15,000 already deposited and must raise $5,000 additional by May 1. Corbett proposes to claim the $5,004 already deposited !n case Fitzsimmons fails to raise the remainder. Andrew Carnegie hasdonated SIOO,OOO to build a monument at Pittsburg to Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, of .London, England. The monument Is to be erectmf under the triumphal arch at the entrance of the park of 400 acres which Mrs. Schenley piesented to that city, and which bears her name. Tho aged mother of the late Charles Stewart Parnell was found-bleeding and Bnconscious near her country home at Bordentown, N. J., April 19. There is a mystery connected with the affair, but It t* supposed that the lady had been as■aulted and robbed by some unknown perlon. * Robert Center, the well known sportsman and yachtman. of New York, while riding a bicycle, April 17, ran into a coal e*rt and received injuries from which ho died. Mr. Center owned end rode the first bicycle over brought tq. this country. He leaves an estate of $500,000. Mr. Center was never married. Lady Henry Somerset, in a card to the Associated Press. April 18, denied the charges made by Mrs. flicks, at New York, recently, and denounces them as libelous. Lady Somerset, however, states that if all such charges made against reformers were brought before the courts they would have no time for more useful occupations. A Washington special, April 19, says that there Is a probability of two vacancies on the Supremo Bench before the end of President Cleveland’s term. It is 1 believed that Secretary Gresham will bo appointed to one of the vacancies. Tho court is now composed of spur Democrats —Chief Justice Fuller, Associate Justices Field, Jackson and White, and of five Republicans—Associate Justices Harlan, Gray, Brown. Brewer and Shiras. It is claimed that ex-Scnator Ransom, recently appointed minister to Mexico, lo succeed the late Gov. Gray, was ineligible at the time of his appointment. The Constitution provides that "no Senator or Representative shall, during the thno for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof

shall have bftaa. iMsswed during such time.” Miss Francis Willard, now in London, in an interview, April 11, defended Lad] Henry Somerset-from the charges mads by Mr. Hicks at rjew York, recently . Sh| states that to her own knowledge Ladii Somerset’s record is perfectly clear and consistent, and that she not only doe# not rent property for improper purposes, but Is even now engaged in alawsuit with her trustees because of her refusal to renew the license of the Whitehall hotel al Riegate, near London, which is her property. Tho trustees state that Lady Somerset’s action has depreciated th* value of her own and other property. E. R. Hunter, a commission map at th* Chicago Stock Yards, was mysteriously killed with a brick while sitting at hi| -destelfrhis oflice, Friday evening. Saturday at the»meeting in the Live Stock Exchange more than one thousand person* were present, and W. C. Brown, a prominent dealer, shouted, in the course of hi; speech, “If we can find the coward whoso brtually murdered our comrade last nighs I am in favor of disposing of him withouf waiting for the law.” For an instant there was a dead silence In the great hai: of the Stock Exchange, then from a thousand throats came cheer after cheer, until the building fairly shook. There is n* clew to the assassin. —Oliver Curtis Perry, the train robber, who escaped from the Matteawan Insane Asylum last week, was captured on the banks of the Hudson, near Weehawken, where he was camping with three tramps, April 16. He was placed in jail in Jersey City. Perry alleiges that the asylum authorities treated him in an. inhuman manner, and he warned a kefeper who came to the jail to identify him that if he was returned to the asylum and the same treatment given him that there would be trouble. Perry is supposed to have considerable money buried in the vicinity of Little Falls. Prof. James E. Keeler, of the Allegheny Observatory, has made a wonderful astronomical discovery. It is a scientific and. positive demonstration of the fact that the ring of Saturn Is made up of many small bodies, and that the satellites on the inner edge of tho ring move more rapidly than those of the outer edge. From photographs taken at the observatory, it hai been found that the inner edge of the ring moves faster than the outer edge. Ths action of the different parts of the ring, in miles per second, can only be given after the photographs have been accurately measured under a microscope. In the United States Court at Chicago, April 15, Judge Showalterenjoined 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 ba compelled to take part in the proceedings to defend the operation of the law. The contentions of tho Now York stockholders’bill are that the law is unconstitutional because it is class legislation, no| 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.