Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1887 — NEWS OF THE week. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE week.

John Swinton's Paper has been suspended. Natural gas has been "found at Westfield, 111. Natural gas has been found in Minnesota in large quantities. The southern part of Wisconsin is suffering severely from scarcity of water and from fire. Cattle are still dying in New Lenox, 111., from cattle fever, also in Florence, and the disease is spreading. Pardaw Warsley “the Union Spy of the Shenandoah,” died at. Foster Brook, N. Y., Wednesday of last week. The New York Independent says that Sherman and Hawley is tne ticket for the Republicans to nominate in 1888. Hon. Allen Francis, U. S. t Consul to St. Thomas. Ontario, died Thursday noon, the result of a railroad accident. Dairymen in,northern. Illinois are in despair over the drougth. Production of milk has fallen oil 60 per cent. Ferry and BoulangeiyWho have for a week or two talked brKyely of having a duel, have agreed to settle the difficulty by arbitration. The high-license law of [Minnesota, which went into effect July 1, has caused a falling off of one fourth in the number of saloons. Cardiff and Killain fought ten rounds before 10,000 people at Minneapolis, Friday night, without being able to decide which was the better man. The fishing sloops Fanny and James A. Garfield, of Eastport, Me., have been seized in Canadian waters. They were released on payment of a small fine. Millbrook, Kansas, was almost qbliterated by a cyclone, Friday night. The town consisted of about 500 people, who are now destitute. The loss is $68,000. During a celebration at Fort Worth Texas, Saturday night, over, the antiProhibition victory, a keg of powder exploded and three persons were killed. Rowan county, Ky., is still in a ferment, and bloodshed is possible at any moment. The presence of troops alone prevented an outbreak Thursday in the court room. Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, has granted a writ of error in the case of Maxwell, the St. Louis trunk murderer, which will postpone the hanging, set for the 28th of this month. The W. 0. Tyler Paper Co., o f Chicago, is in the bands of the Sheriff. Liabilities ami assets about $350,000. Also at Chicago, the large jewelry house of Baird & Dillon has failed. Lia-

bilities, $175,0: 0. Assets, SBO,OOO. A Peoria paper says that Judge Craig, of the Illinois Supreme Court,made a remark to the effect that the Supreme Court would not grant a new trial to the condemned anarchists at Chicago. The report is doubted. .■ - The National civil service reform league, Wednesday, re-elected George William Curtis president, and adopted a resolution “recognizing the good faith with which the President has sought to uphold the civil service examinations.” Miss Josie Holmes, late exchange clerk of the Fidelity National bank, has been released upon her own recognizance upon the recommendation of Dis trict Attorney Burnett, having agreed to give the government the advantage ot her knowledge of the inside workings of the Fidelity National bank. One hundred Mormons from Salt Lake City have made application to the Canadian Government for homestead lands in the vicinity of Medicine Hat , Northwest Territory, with a view of forming a settlement of the faitnful. The Minister of Justice strongly opposes the introduction of such a sect into that country. ' ■» Joseph H.. Ramey, the well-known colored ex-Congressman, died at his residence in Georgetown, S, C., last Monday. Mr. Rainey was one of the most intelligent representatives of the colored race in the south. He was a barber by trade. He was elected to Congress in 1870, and again in 1872, but was defeated in 1874 by John S. Richardson.

The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin's fire record fo r July shows the fire losses in the United States and Canada to have been 114,026,500, against 110,000,000 in July, 1886, and $9,000,000 in July, 1885. This is just double the average loss in July for the past twelve years. The total loss for the first seven months of 1887 was $76,928,100, against $63,900,000 for the corresponding period of 1886. The question of successorship to the presidency of the Mormon church has been settled, temporarily, by the appearance of an address signed by Wilford Woodruff, that president of the apostles, saying that body Would take charge of the affairs of the church. Woodruff is in the regular order of succession, and his address assumin g control, would indicate there is to be no departure from the. order. The resolution recently adopted by the National Veteran’s association of Des Moines, la., repudiating the utterances of certain members of the G. A. R., in connection with a proposed visit of President Cleveland to St. Louis while the Grand Army encampment was in progress there, commending the President’s veto of the dependent pension bill, condemning the efforts of•Hhose who seek bjr the rebel flag episode to rekindle the flames of sectional'

hate and contention” as unmanly, unpatriotic and meriting the contempt of intelligent men, were Thursday presented to the President by General Rosecrans. FOREIGN. Stanley was all right June 18. A general strike on English railways is probable. Cause: change of wage shcedu e. ■ , A prohibition party has appeared in English politics. Whitely’s immense establishment in London was burned Sunday. Loss nearly $2,500,000 with little insurance. Seven persons perished in the flames. Cause, incendiarism. Alfred Krupp bequeated $250,000 for the benefit of employes. His son Frederick has added $125,000 to the amount for the people of Essen. The Town Council of Essen has voted $15,000 for a statue of Krupp. Thus far the coercion bill has not caused the arrest of anybody, and its operation is regarded as a farce. Secretary Balfour fought shy of a question in commons Friday night, as to when the Irish executive would begin the work of suppressing the National league. Mme. Ellmini, while traveling in the country some distance form Paris, left thp coach to relieve the horses on reaching a hill. When she resumed her seat she discovered the loss of a valise containing valuables to the amount of $160,000. Her maid attendants has been arrested on suspicion.