Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ironwood, the scene of a $300,000 fire, Monday. Mojiiis Maguireism has been revived at.Oleh Carbon, Pa. The Illinois broom corn crop tbis vear will be the largest on record. The miners’ strike in the Lehigh region is rapidly breaking up. . Attempts at train-wrecking are of almost daily occurrenee in Miesouri. The Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., met at Denver, Colorado, Monday. A bill impoting a tax of SIO,OOO on all wine rooms has become a law in Georgia. Captain Mike Cregan, a famous New York Republican polititian, died Thursday. Five persons were drowned in Lake Geneva, Monday, by the colliding of boats. v • lill Forty thousand people attended an ex-cpnfederate reunion at Mexico, Mo., Thursday. The eightieth victim of the Chatswortli (Ill.) railroad disaster died at Chatsworth Saturday. Ex-Governor Luke P. Blackburn, of Kentucky, died at Frankfort, in that State, Wednesday. Senator Voorhees expresses the opinion that Judge Turpie will be seated by the United State Senate^ The Peoria distillers consume 28, 216 bushels of grain daily in the manufacture of the “ardent.” TheG. A. R. of Minnesota and Missouri are almost unanimously in favor of the dependent pension bill. A mass mt eting of telegraph operators at New York, Sunday night, pledged support to the Henry George ticket. The oftl North Atlantic, flagship, Tennessee, costing $2,404,000, was sold at auction at Brooklyn, Friday, for $34,425. Two construction trains on the Iron Mountain railroad collided, Thursday night, killing two and injuring seven others. * .. An excursion train bound for Doncaster, England, Friday, collided with another train, and twenty-four persons were killed. The Ohio campaign on the part of the Democrats was opened at Hamilton, Wednesday evening, -by Mr. Powell, candidate for governor. TI A Chinese theater is to be erected in New' York to necompleted Feb. 1. Chinese plays are to be produced, ip old country style by Chinese actors. Fred Munchrath, Jr., indicted for complicity in the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock, at Sioux City, lowa, has been found guilty of manslaughter. The National Republican Committee will meet in- Washington early in December to fix a time and select a place for the next National convention. Ira L. Green, a former resident of Rush, N. Y., murdered his wife and two children at Sarsata, Fla. Green was at terward shot while resisting the officers. William Walter Phelps says that Blaine does not want the nomination in 1888, and that his friends are doing “absolutely nothing” to secure it for him. R. W. Waterman, Republican, Lieu-tenant-Governor of California, has succeeded to the office of Governor owing to the death of Governor Washington Bartlett, Democrat. Cardinal Gibbons denies that he suppressed Dr. Burtsell’s defense of Dr. McGlynn, and he knows nothing of any change in the original endownment of the new Catholic University. The new “American”party promulgated its platform Saturday from Philadelphia. The platforn is similar to those, usually adopted by other parties, and contains especially new or startling features. H. W. Wynkoop, superintendent of telegraph of all the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, died at his home at Crestline, 0., Friday. He was associated with General Stager in the operation of military lines during the war.

The hotels at Liverpool are crowded with Americans returning from European trips and awaiting passage to New York. The number of these pilgrims is unprecedented, and many have difficulty in securing accommodations. By the use of improved machinery the 200 men employed in the Chicago steel works were compelled to handle Seventeen tons a day instead of eleven. They asked 15 per cent, increase in wages; being refused, they struck, Wednesday. Bradstreet’s agency has paid $6,000 to 8. Carslev, a Montreal merchant, in satisfaction of a judgment obtained against the agency for publishing an item in its notification sheet, instructing subscribers £o call at the office to learn of Carsley’s standing. Fire, Thursday, destroyed the principal business houses of Lake Crystal, Minn., causing s loss, of $46,000. The John Peters Furniture Companys’ factory, at St. Louis,was completely gutted; loss nearly sllo,ooo.^Thp candy-factory of M. E. Page & Co., at Chicago, was totally destroyed; loss $150,000. Senator Bayard has submitted a report to .the President in which he says no ground exisfe upon which to demand the extradition of McGariele. f)r. St John, who aided McGarigle to escape, is amenable to Illinois laws. British Garigle took passage to Canada cuts no figure m the case. The New York World Thursday inter-

* ■ z ~i 'Viewed 400 of the delegates to the New ! York Republican State Convention. Of these 201 favored Blaine*. 23 Chapncey M. Depaw, 19 Robert Lincoln, 7 Joseph R. Hawley and 4 Roscoe Conklirig, with others scattering. The estimates of the labor vote ranged from 25,000 to 250,000 amLat the Prohibition vottrfronr- IS.OOd to 75,000. The Legislature of Montana has recently been in special session from a peculiar cause. The Legislature last winter passed a bill authorizing a bounty of ten cents for prairie dogs and 5 cejits for grounds squirrels and to date the Territory has paid for 698,971 ground squirrels, and 153,709 prairie dogs, ora total of over $50,000. The act had exhausted all the funds and at the special session the law was repealed. A. B. Parment, postmaster at Middleton, Wis.,for twenty years, was arrested, by the federal authorities and lodged in jail at* iVlarion. His arrest causes a profound sensation, as he was .held in the highest esteem. He is charged with embezzling SSOO of government funds, and with making false returns ter the Postoffice Department, whereby he was able to secure S6OO more salary per annum than he w : as entitled to. FOREIGN. Boulanger is still for war. Parliament was prorogued, Friday. Michael Dillon predicts that lie and other Irish leaders will soon be picking oakum, Prince Ferdinand is growing uneasy over’the deadlock of the powers on the Bulgarian question. It is said that Bismarck has virtually decided to sustain Prince Ferdinand on the Bulgarian throne. Scottish home rulers have appointed a committee to urge the passage of a home rule hill for their country. Soothsayers, it is said, have told the Czar that his reign would end during a war, and for this reason he hesitates to take Bulgaria in hand. Two brothers, named Juergensen, wno returned to their native village Albereim, on the island of Fohr, four months ggb, after an absence of twenty years in America, have been ordered to leave Prussian territory. A London dispatch says that Lord Salisbury is wavering from the policy adopted toward Irel and by theTimn istr y, and that he greatly Jeara the results which are to follow upon the execution of the measures passed by the session .of Parliament just closed. A young man named Hayes, while returning from Macroon (Ireland) fair, on Monday, was waylaid bv misoreants and so badly beaten that he died from the effects of hisinjuries. Two men named Learlv and Gleison have been arrested on a charge of having committed the outrage. A fete commemorative of the century of the adoption of the American constitution was held in the Crystal Palace, London, Saturday. It was desighed as a tribute to the patriotic celebration of the event in Philadelphia. Large crowds of people joined in the festivities of the day and nearly all the prominent Americans now sojourning in the city shared in the proceedings.