Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The W. C. T. U. will ob*erv* Not. 12 and IS an m day of prayer, all over the world. More freight thievea—employee—have been arrested on the New York division •f the Pennsylvania raiboad. The Pullman Company, of Chicago, has ordered a reduction of ten per cent in tnmmerV w may result. V ■ .( Seven hundred Catholics of Kalamasoo, Mich , made a pilgrimage to Notre Dame University Wednesday to see the sights. Prof. 0. 8. Fowler,the noted phrenologist and lecturer, died at his residence near Sharon Station, Conn., Thursday morning. ’’ Ferry and Boulanger, who have for a week or two talked bravely of having a duel, have agreed to settle the difficulty by arbitration. Mrs. Herbert, a patient at Sc. Joseph’s hospital, Joliet, 111., has been asleep for 222 days—the most remarkable case of the kind on record. Charles S. McCauber, the man who nominated Cleveland for sheriff of Erie county, died in Washington, Tuesday, a disappointed office seeker. The New York socialists held astormy meeting at Cooper Union, Monday night, and strongly denounced Henry George and his United Labor party. It is said that President Cleveland will go through from Washington to Cleveland without a stop.other than the regular train schedules provide for. Louis Debeik, a post trader at the navy yard in Boston, has fallen heir to a fortune of $2,500,000, from a grand aunt who died in Java, leaving an estat valued at $28,000,000. Collector SaltonstaU, of Boston, Mon-

day declined to give to a committee of the Democratic State Central committee the reasons why so many Republicans are retained in office. The steamer Seabird, which left Port Townsend a year ago for the north, was taken by the Indians, who burned the vessel and killed the entire crew, ashort distance above Seymour narrows; The Newport express train, leaving New Haven, Conn., at 4p. m. Tuesday for New York, struck a carriage at Fivemite river containing a man, two ladies and a boy,.all of whom were killed. Richard Bean, of Boston, a herdic driver, and his brother, John, also a hackman, and a sister, have been notified that they are joint heirs to a fortune of $10,000,000 left by Thomas Bean, who recently died at Bonham, Tex. H. S. Ives makes a statement showing the liabilities of H. S. Ives A Co., to be $16,479,723 and asserts fully $5,000,000 more. He expects, he says, to have $5,000,000 remaining after all liabilities have been satisfied. I’reeident Cleveland and most of his Cabinet will go to Philadelphia on the 17th of next month to attend the centennial constitutional celebration there. Mrs. Cleveland will probably accompany the President. President Edgerton,of the civil service commission, says that the civil service reform leagues are made up of a lot of irresponsible individuals, handed to gether for the avowed purpose of annoying the adrainistra ion. Commander-in Chief Fairchild states that the opposition to the Grand Army of the Renublic, which has recently sprung up, has only had a tendency to solidify it, and that the organization is growing rapidly all over the country. Adaline Hardy, the pretty daughter of Dexter Hardy, of Lakeview,a Chicago suburb, has been abducted and probably murdered by Charles P. Pither, out of revenge for his bettkyal to the authorities three yea: ago as a deserter from the United States army. livery employe of the shoe factories •f New York will probably be locked out before the end of this week. The trouble is between Hanan A Son and D. A. 91 K. of L. The boot and shoe manufacturers association threaten the lockout uuless the K. of L. come to terms.

In an interview Mr. Bayard Monday among other things he said that removals were not made in the State Department unless for cause, and where men were found doing their duties properly, they were left alone. This was considered the best plan to run the deparment on. Joseph H. Ramey, the well-known •olored ex-Congressman, died at his residence in Georgetown, 8. C., last Monday. Mr. nainey was ’one of the most intelligent representatives of the eolored race in the south. He was a barber by trade. He was elected to Congress in J 870, and again in 1872, but was defeate..in 1874 by John S. Bichardson. On the Baltimore & Ohio train, which left Chicago the other day, a farmer named Newman Whittaker was married to Mrs. Nancy Russel by Elder Jchapod 8. Jones, all of Wolf Lake, Ind. A license was obtained at Albion, Noble county, and the parties were married at noon between Albion and Avilla on the train, in the presence of a car-load of passengers and twelve friends, who made up the bridal party. Congratulations and kisses were abundant and the bride’s cake was passed to the party and passengers. Three hundred men engaged in a riot at Glen Lyon, near ’ Nanticoke, Pa., Sunday. All nationalities were represented in the affray. The riot was

brought about through a Methodist minister. At Glen Lyon it has been customary oh Sunday to pay bills, make collections, and transact all such business of this kind. The minister had frequently preached against such desecration of the Sabbath. On last Sunday he organised a number of the church members into a posse for the purpose of suppressing it. The result was a general riot in which almost hundreds were more or less hurt’ on both aides. FOKBIGM. The Char does not regard Prince Ferdinand’s election to the Bulgarian throne legal. 2 Seventeen persons were accidently drowned in the Thames, at London, Sunday. Germany has instructed her consul at Sophia to break off relations with the -Bulgarian government. Mr. Gladstone is jubilant over the reaent elections, and feels sure that full justice will be done to Ireland before long. v The marriage of the Emperor of China has been postponed for two years on account of his ill health and monetary stringency. A telegram from Merv says that the Ameer of Afghanistan’s life is despaired of. One of his feet has been amputated, owing to gangrene, and it is feared that the shock will result in his death. A fight took place between Chinese and Japanese fishermen on the Corean coast, and the Coreans undertook to settle the trouble. A battle ensued, in which the Coreans were finally successful after much slaughter. The Freeman’s Journal asserts that the'proclamation by the government has given the National league new life. The accessions to the league during the last few days have been numerous. A hundred English and Scotch members of the house of commons will be nominated for membership next Tuesday, together with a large body of private citizens.