Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — NAMED THE NEW BABY [ARTICLE]

NAMED THE NEW BABY

MARION THE CHOICE OF THE •~~~ PRESIDENT’S WIFE. Italian Steamer Goes Down with 148 Passengers—MidsnninierDiillneßsin Trade Circles — Fragments Found Supposed to Be Remains of Victims. New Baby Is Named. The third daughter of President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland was Friday formally named Marion, the name selected by Mrs. Cleveland in honor of the town where she and the President spent the first summer vacation after their marriage. It was on thq shores of Marion, across Buzzard’s Bay, that Mrs. Cleveland spent what must have been one of the happiest summers in her life, and she has always been more than fond of its sands, its pretty cottages, its rocks and beautifully shaded drives. So that the selection of the name will not cause surprise, aud will undoubtedly tend to make Mrs. Cleveland tie more popular, if that is possible, among the permanent inhabitants of Cape Cod. As in the case of Ruth and Esther, the new little one has no middle name, and in this fact is again seen a demonstration of the simplicity and old-fashioned beliefs of Mrs. Cleveland in her treatment of her children.

More of Holmes’ Deviltry. Prompted by the finding of the children’s bodies in Toronto, the police of Chicago began a systematic search Friday of the building in Englewood built by H. H. Holmes, the insurance swindler, and once occupied by him. Neither digging in the cellar nor tearing down of wall will disclose the bodies of the Williams sisters if the suspicions of C. E. Davis, who afterward occupied a room in the building, shall prove true. Mr. Davis says that the emptying of a stove which had been Holmes’ property showed that a body or bodies had probably been burned in it. Remnants of what looked like hiiihan bones rattled out on the floor, together with a gold watch chain, which he identified as having been worn by Minnie Williams, hooks and eyes and other incidents of a woman’s apparel. The stove was amply large enough to have contained a body. Holmes had been a doctor, and was a chemist of some ability. To dispose of the bodies was no difficult matter for him. The motive for the murder of the sisters was to secure control of property in Fort Worth, Texas, which had been left to Minnie Williams by her father. Holmes heard of the property and the girls while he was in Englewood Drowned by the Score. The Italian steamers Ortegia and Maria P. collided off Isela del Pint at the entrance of the Gulf of Genoa Sunday. The latter sank and 148 people were drowned. The Maria P. was entering the Gulf of Genoa at 1:30 cdsloek in the morning when she met the Ortegia, outbound. They only noticed each other when a collision was inevitable. The bow of the Ortegia crashed into the starboard side of the Maria P., penetrating six yards, and ripping np the Maria P. like ifiatcliwood. The water rushed in through the hole, and the Maria P. sank in three minutes. The majority of the passengers were asleep at the time and had no time to escape after the alarm was given. They were engulfed with the vessel. The Ortegia remained on the spot until G o’clock, in Order to pick up the survivors. She rescued fourteen of the crew and twenty-eight of the passengers.

Business Not So Brisk. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of business says: tfSka. week’s news is not entirely encouraging, but is all the more natural because there are signs of midsummer dullness. Wheat prospects are not quite so good as last week. The exports of gold and the less favorable treasury returns for July are not unexpected and mean nothing as to coming business. There is a perceptible decrease in the demand for most manufactured products, and the actual distribution to consumers naturally lessens in midsummer. Much of ilie recent buying was to anticipate a rise in prices, nnd such purchases fall off when prices have risen. There are still numerous advances in wages, but strikes grow more numerous and important.” Will Burn Old Documents. The registers of deeds in Kansas are getting ready for a big bonfire. These bonfires will burn in all of the 105 eouiv ties of the State, but whether a certain day will be set apart for the destruction of old documents is not known. The last Legislature passed a law providing that chattel mortgages which have become outlawed or released for n certain length of time, and other worthless instruments filed in the office of every register of deeds in Kansas, might be destroyed. The bill is one that will afford great relief to these officials in Kansas. Their offices have been stocked and crowded with these documents and it will be a relief to get rid of them.