Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Six inches of snow fell in Denver, SunSay night. u • Two thousand tailors are on strike in New York. Plunger Ed. Pardridge, of Chicago,-lost £150,000 on wheat, April 19. The Pullman Car Company is serving ejectment papers on delinquent tenants. It is reported that Henry Villard has again secured control of the Northern Pacific. - Ex-Senator Wilson died at Fairfield, lowa, April 22, after an illness of several weeks. Miss June Adams has been appointed garbage inspector of the Nineteenth Ward, Chicago. Chicago factories which have been .burning crude oil for steam production will return to coal, May 1. Two Americans, named Thoerne.r and Koegel. who are walking around the world, have arrived at Monte Carlo. . The funeral of the late Mari-, sur. Deputy Controller of the Treasury, took place at Richmond, Mo., Friday. 7 Penn Nixon, who owns a majority of the Inter Ocean stock, denies •mphatlcally that the paper is forXale. A New York correspondent says that Eastern Democrats will push Gen. Miles for the Democratic presidentfal nomination. .

Mrs. Donnelly, whom John L. SulUvan rescued after her clothes caught tire, died' from her injuries in the Boston Cjty. Hps.pital. 7k A resolution favoring the annexation of UntiedStates w asTseafied’ by the New York House of Representatives. . _ . 7=4Ex-Mayor J, Hull Davidson, of Lexington, Ky., has been fined £SO and sentenced to serve ten days ip jail for carrying a concealed deadly weapon. Henry Piper has been arrested for stealing gold from the San Francisco mint; where he worked. He is said to have carried it off in the dinher pail.: There fs some fear of an Indian uprising in Thurston county, Neb. Tho Win; nebagos threaten to eject the whites who have settled on their reservation. The gold fever has broken out Im NorthCarolina, because-of the allegeddiscovery' In Stanley county of a pure nugget, weighing eight pounds and five ounces. Theodore Roosevelt has been appointed a member of the New York Board of Police Commissioners, and will resign -hl's place as a Civil Service Commissioner. Madeline Pollard, who is unable to collect her judgment of £15,000 against Col. Brecftnridge. will make a trip around the world as a companion to a charitable lady. Tho Chicago and Omaha Live Stock Exchanges have adopted resolutions condemning the action of Secretary Morton in regard to the admission of Mexican cattle. Alice Walsh, an abandoned woman, of New York, was found brutally murdered, Sunday. The mutilations of the body were similar to the “Jack-the Ripper” trlmes in London. United States custom officials at Mont-real-have unearthed a scheme of an organized gang of smugglers who have been shipping Chinamen into this country in perforated coffins. The annual report of the Standard Oil Company states that the paid in capital stock- of <the company is £7,000,000; its debts do not exceed £3,000,0U0, and its assets amount to £10,000,000. A train on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad struck a wagon containing Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frank, aged sixty-two arid sixty-five respectively, near Richland, Pa., and both were instantly killed.

Major General Alexander McCook was placed on the retired list, April 22, and surrendered his command of the Department of Colorado to Col. Thomas Ward, Adjutant General. The Moline Plow Works of Moline, 111. have, it is announced, practically closed the lease of ground in St. Louis on which the company will erect a five-story building, 801 by 103 feet, costing 130,000. During a quarrel in a Justice’s court in Edgefield county, S. C., John C. Swearingen, brother-in-law of Senator Tillman and ex-Congressman George Tillman, was killed by B. L. Jones, Bad feeling existed between the men. The eighty-sixth birthday of Mrs. William McKinley, mother of the Governor was celebrated at Canton, Ohio, Monday, with a family reunion, at which about a dozen per Sons, including the Governor and his wife, were present. Forest fires are raging In the mountains in Southern West Virginia. Fully two thousand acres of timber land have been burned over hi the region of the Poca river and along Kelly's creek. No lives have been reported lost. A joint stock company has been incorporated to publish the Chicago Enquirer, the now Democratic organ in that city. Capital stock, #1,000.000. Tho policy of Abe new paper on tho financial question has not yet been determined. Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M. P., was married to Miss Mary Letter, daughter of L. Z. Loiter formerly of Chicago, at Washington, April 23, Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador, and many otiicr distinguished people were present. . Word lias been'receiveil that Frank Huffman, the train robber and desperado who has operated in central Missouri for the past five years, has been captured at Collins, Mo. Lie was recently surrounded and shot in a swamp in Hickory county, but escaped. Rubq Smith, tho lender of the celebrated Burrows gang, sent up to the Ohio 'penitentiary, Dec. from Mississippi, to serve a lite sent4wie for attempted|train robbery, died, Saturday afternoon,

in the prison hospital. He is said to have kHled-fivemen, In a demurrer filed by E. J. (“Lucky” Baldwin, at San Francisco, to the suit o.‘ Miss Lillian Ashley for £50,000 damages, he says that his reputation wasj too well known for him to deceive any woman, and that she knew he was married and unable to carry out a promise of marriage. _ Brooklyn. N. Y.. has discovered twe well-defined cases of leprosy, both colored boys,, one seven, the Jother seventeer. years old, both coming from Barbadoes, West Indies, two years ago. The cases are under surveillance of the Board o) Health, which is puzzled as to wfiai to do. , Gen. Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, has renounced Queen Victoria and will become-an - A mer ican citizen. : Hehai made formal application at the County Clerk'/office in Jersey City for the necessary’ papers. Gen. Booth's first paperi W'ro taken out in New York in hS'J. Senor Dupuy de Lome, the new Spanish minister to the United States, arrived a' Npw York. April interviewed pti Gufeiin f-k>satyf the insurrec. tl&h be stamped out by force of arms, and that Campos' arrival in Cuba has already caused a feeling of security in the island. W. S. Mathias has obtained the. right <>! way for an electric north fron, Danville, 111., to Iroquois county. The .l.yie. Will ,bp .over thirty .pijles .long, ami -wiill reach Bismarck. Alvimvlfossvine twid Hoopeston. The passenger rate is not t<i exceed cents per mile, and the road it to be completed bv May 1.1896. "fl Tha Eri knrcl? Marin fact uri ng Company, iif Augusta, Me..’notified a committee of spinners that the 8 per cent.,cut madii some months ago-would be restored t<« them, and possibly to all departments in the mill. May 1. , • •. ... The Missouri Legislature convened Ju extra session, April 23, at Jefferson City, having been called by Gov. Stone to enact legislation to properly define the relation! classes- of raHroad m-’jribyestSopreverit-fhd'"ntairiteriarice of riri organized lobby, ami'to amend electio;| laws So tis td prevent fraud. H. H, KohlsaSt has purchased a controlling Interest; in the Chicago Times’JlStihi {yid : Eveaing'i > oit,:arid.wifl dirccy the policy'of the publications h.eredft er. 1; is.understood that the Times-Herald will be independent in politics and will advo-, cate protection to air American industries,: . ?' :l -p Reciprocity between the United State) and Hawaii in shipping regulations ha* recently been brought about by the action of the Treasury Departifaeri.t in gfyfng'tu Hawaiian merchant vessels'thhsame ad, vantages enjoved by American ships. Thu Hawaiian government has already placet) United States ships on thesaipe terms as its own. One hn nd red and clgh teen colored Baptist converts were baptized at Lawrence. Kas., Sunday. Forty were immersed in the pool at the church, and tberemainder were baptized in the Kaw river, in tho presence of thousands of people who had gathered on tho banks. Seventy-five wer« immersed in less than thirty minutes. Collis I’. Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific railroad, was arrested al New York, Monday, on the charge 0! giving a free pass to Frank Stone, in violation of interstate commerce law. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields, and was represented by his counsel, Frederick R. Condert. He was taken before Judge Brown, of the United States District Court, for a warrant of removal to California. fi One of the most successful burglaries on record was carried out at Port Royal, neat Mifflintown, Pa., Wednesday night, the general store of Noah Hertzler being robbed of bonds, stocks, merchandise and money to the value of £35,000. The establishment was amply protected with burglar alarms, but the robbers managed te gain an entrance to the cellar and cut their way through the floor. A liberal reward has been offered for the arrest of the thieves.

Geo E. Sherman, whose weight in life was 478 pounds,was buried at Orange.N.j; Sunday. The co Ilin was seven feet long, three feet wide, and two and one-hall feet deep. It had to be taken through a window to a monster hearse made for exhibition at the World’s Fair. Fourteen men carried the body and coffin from ths house. Seaman was a G. A. R, veteran, and the undertaker wanted to use a guncarriage to carry the body to tho grave. The Kentucky Senatorial fight is onto earnest. Secretary Carlisle, Senatot Blackburn. Jas. B. McCreary, ex-Gov. Buckner and an unknown number of dark horses are in the race. Senator Blackburn has announced himself in favor oi free silver. McCreary is unalterably opposed to free coinage. Secretary Carlisle us yet has made no formal statement of his position, but bis financial views art too well known to need stating at this time. The contest for the Senatorship promises to become of national interest. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, saved a woman's life at Boston, Sunday. As hs was leaving his boarding house in Dovei street, he heard a woman scream in th< rear of the house, lie ran down the stairway and saw at once that there was fin in the kitchen, and that Mrs. Margare' Donnelly, the cook, was in danger o; burning to death, her clothing havinj beau ignited by blazing fat on the stove He quickly wrapped a big mat around th< woman and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. She was badly burned, but th< chances are favorable for her recovery, fJtulilvan’s hands were burned in Severn places, and he was obliged to call on i doctor, but the injuries are not serious.

GENERAL A. M'D. M'COOK.