Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Buckner’s pluralty over Bradley lor governor of Kentucky is 17,025. The agricultural bureau says the rains came too late to save the corn crop in its entirety. Prince de Tallyrand has arrived in New York, and will make the United States his future home. The Woman’s Christian Temnerahce union of Chicago expects to erect a six-hundred-thousand-dollar building. The ships W. P. Say ward and Dolphin, of Victoria, B. C., have been seized for fishing on the sealing grounds of Alaska. Commander Ull man,a retired Hungarian officer, is in Washington trying to sell the Tortuga Island to the United States. Ferry and Boulanger, who have fora week or two talked bravely of having a duel, have agreed to settle the difficulty by arbitration. In his annual report as surveyor general of New Mexico, George W. Julian says that enormous land frauds' have been committed in the territory. Mayor Sutton, the street commissioner and nineteen councilmen of Wilkesbarre, Pa., were, Tuesday, arrested for failing to keep the streets in order. During a celebration at Fort Worth Texas, Saturday night, over the antiProhibition victory, a keg of powder exploded and three persons were killed.

Daniel Brown, a mechanic,fatally shot Adolph Zenneck, editor of the New Orleans Mascot, Saturday. Brown was seeking a retraction of a publication at the time. Chas. Williams, who was confined in the jail of Logan county, West Virginia, for the murder of James Aldridge, a few days ago, was taken from jail by citizens and hanged to a tree. The window glass factory of Stewart, Estep & Cr., of Pittsburg, will remove to Marion. It will give employment to 100 men. The factory of the firm at Pittsburg was recently destroyed by fire. During a fire at St. Louis Wednesday morning the walls of the burning building fell and buried beneath the ruins three firemen. All we’-e killed. A spectator was mortally wounded. Several other were Beriouslv injured. Dr. Smallwood and Dr. B. A. Harris, physicians of the female ward of Blackwell’s Island, insane hospital, are charged with the seduction of two of the nurses, and an investigation is being made by the department of charities

and corrections. 7 Second Comptroller Butler and Third Auditor. Williams have refused to allow a voucher of SSOO for a pair of horses bought for the secretary of war, despite the claim of the war department officials that the secretary’s order overrides any statute it may conflict, with. On Wednesday afternoon a gang of men employed on the Northwestern railway extension sat down near a new-ly-constructed wa+er-tank, at Watersmill, Mich., to rest after they had filled the tank. The tank fell to pieces, killing six men and badly injuring six others. Bishop Wm. Stephens Perry, oi lowa, has been chosen bishop of the Nova Scotia churches. At Westminster Abbey, Thursday, he preached a sermon in which he fought over again the war for American independence, terming the patriots rebels and Lord Howe’s admiralty the loyal forces. Hon. Emory Spear, presiding in the United States Circuit Court for the southern district of Georgia, has rendered a decision holding that the practice of loan companies of withholding from 15 to 25 per cent, of the amount loaned, under the device of commissions for negotiating the loan, was usurious and illegal. Joseph H. Ramey, the well-known colored ex-Congressman, died at hip residence in Georgetown, 8. C., last Monday. Mr. Lainey 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 defeate .in 1874 by John S. Richardson.

Willis McDearmon, a school teach or near Gabattia, Jackson county, Tenn., found his school house guarded by a mob Tuesday morning, who refused him admission on the ground that he was a prohibitionist. McDearmon opened another school house; the anti-prohibitionists installed the new teacher, and tlie pupils divided according to the parents’ views on the question. Aaron A. Sgrgant, ex-United States Senator from California, died at San Francisco Sunday morning. He was a distinguished Republican. In 1882 he was appointed Minister to Germany. He created dissatisfaction there on account of his outspoken disapproval of Germany’s course on the hog question. In 1884 President Arthur transferred him to St. Petersburg, making him Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten"tiary. In the forthcoming of the civil service commissioners on the recent Chicago investigations, Commissioner Edgerton will hold that, under the law, the power of removal is no more restricted than it was before the civil service law was enacted. He maintains tb«t it is the duty of the commis-

sion to procure good and competent persons for the classified service, and when that is done its duty is ended. He said to a reporter; “In the report I shall take very decided grounds against these investigations upon indefinite charges made by irresponsible persons. I shall be pretty severe upon the Chicago civil service league, who made the charges, and then had nothing to sustain them, but not more severe than I think the facts warrant. Such organizations should attend to their own legitimate business. No official is bound to give reasons for the dismissal of a subordinate. ”

FOREIGN. A famine is reported as again possible in Newfoundland, owing to the failure of the fish catch. Scutari, a city opposite Constantinople, Thursday, was destroyed by fire. One thousand houses were burned. Fifty thousand socialists got together in Nelson square, London, Sunday! and violently denounced the police depart-, ment. Medical returns show that 70,000 persons died of cholera in the Northwest provinces of India during June and July. A Winnipeg public meeting Monday night adopted resolutions in favor of closer commercial relations with the United States. Prince Ferdinand arrived at Tirnova Saturday night and was enthusiastically welcomed. On Sunday he signed the constitution and took the oath of office and allegiance. The Prince then declared himself ruler of Bulgaria. There is no reference to Russia in the proceedings. It is believed England, Austria and Italy will approve of the proceedings.