Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1887 — NEWS OF OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OF THE WEEK.

Maryland Democrats have nominated Elihn E. Jackson for Governor. Mr. Blaine is still in Scotland. He is preparing a magazine review of his travels. Mrs. E. L. Fernandez, a well known actress, is heir to a fortune of $250,000 in England. Mr. Blaine telegraphs that he does not expect to return to America until next year. A single robber rifled the pouches of two mail coaches near Dripping Springs, Texas, Friday night. Ex-Senator Ben. Harrison delivered a speech to U. S. Grant Post,.G;A. R., at Washington, Tuesday night. Chicago expects Cleveland to visit that city without an invitation, and is arranging to entertain him. Senator Sherman left Monday on a trip of pleasure to Puget Sound, which may be extended to Alaska. The drought in Kansas is serious. No rain has fallen since July 4, and corn will not be good for anything but fodder Secretary Fairchild is paid to be preparing a tariff revision bill that will satisfy both wings of the Democratic party. A severe wind, rain and hail storm swept over Louisville, Tuesday night, causing considerable damage to shipping. The glass manufacturing firms of of S. McKee & Co., and King,Son A Co., at Pittsburg, sustained a loss of $150,000 by fire Sunday. The signal office and agricultural bureau agrees that last week was a hard one on crops, the present condition of which causes considerable anxiety. Mrs. John A. Logan ha« arrived at Washington. Her shoulder blade which was dislocated had to be reset, as the first operation was somewhat of a failure. C. J. Kershaw, the famous wheat clique brokerin Chicago, has liabilities of $1,800,000 and gross assets of $1,760,000, including $1,500,000 due from the Cincinnati parties. Augusta, Georgia and vicinity has been damaged to the extent of $1,500,000 by high water. Sunday evening the water was three feet deep in parts of the city, but soon receded. ; The brother of the present king of Siam, his four nephews and the recently appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Washington and his suite have arrived in New York. Several iron mi'ls have been closed because the owners refuse to recognize a law passed by the workers, that no man should.hold two positions in a mill. Five thousand men are idle now and more will be before the trouble is ended. On the occasion of the antLprohibition State barbecue, at Fort Worth, on the 26th inst., a strong letter was read from Jefferson Davis to ex-Governor Lubbock, denouncing prohibition on the ground that the world is governed too much.

The postal revenues now nearly meet expenses, and an official predicts that in a few years the postoffice department will be carrying letters for a cent in less than ten years, and will be sending letters to all parts of the world for two cents. “Sloptown,” a precinct of Cincinnati covering six acres, was swept out of existence by fire Friday afternoon. Twenty-five buildings were burned and 150 people are homeless. The loss,SIOO,OOO, is nearly total. Fifty cows were cremated. Jeff Davis has wrttena letter protesting against the adoption of the prohibition amendment in Texas, and such is the magic of his name in that section that it is believed the publication of the letter will insure the defeat of ihe measure, which, until the letter appeared, it was believed would be carried. On Friday afternoon three colored people, Sol Snowden, Mose Watkins and Alice Cross, residing near Hardensville, Ky., were working in a tobacco field when a storm came up. They took shelter under a tree, and had been there but a few moments when a bolt of lightning •flashed down, shattering the tree and killing all three. Prince Krow Lang Dezvawousge Varoprakaw, half brother of the King of Siam, and suite, arrived in New York Sunday. He has been doing the -‘Queen’s Jubilee.” He has no definate plans of action in this country, other than to visit Washington and Niagara Falls. Let us hope he will not get mixed up in his name while in this country. Chas. H. Reed, one of the lawyers who defended Guiteau, attempted suicide, at New York, Saturday morning. by jumping into the North river from a ferry boat. He was rescued by a police officer and taken to the Chambers street hospital. The paddle wheel of the boat struck Reed on the head. Reed has been stopping at a Jersey City hotel for some time. A dispatch from Springfield, 111., says: ‘lnvestigation by the supervisors of this (Sangamon) county show that four exsheriffs are indebted to the county in the sum of $24,000 for fees and money retained. Ex-Sheriff Gibson said he run the office for all there was in it, and proposed to keep the money. AH' the sheriffs, including the present official, paid the police 50 cents apiece for every tramp arrested and committed to jail.” Bishop Laughlin, of Brooklyn, senior

bishop of the Catholic church in America, has been summoned to Rome. He will go early in the fall. He had a controversy with Priest J. J. Crunimus, who was suspended. Afterward he fought the bishop all through the church courts, and defeated him. A communi cation was sent ordering the priest’s reinstatement. This order the bishop tore up and flung into the fire, and refused to reinstate the priest. It is this action he is called upon to explain. A coadjutor bishop, probably with the right of succession, will be appointed, and this in itself is rather a severe punishment to the bishop, who has for thirty-four years ruled his diocese with a rod of iron, refusing either advice or assistance from any of his priests. Father Farrelly will probably be the man.