Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

An epidemic of diptheria prevails at Sadorus, near Champaign, HL Texas reports a decrease in the value of cattle this year of $6,000,000. Navigation on the Ohio at Cincinnati is almost suspended because' of low water. X* A terrible epidemic' of typhoid fever is raging in Iron Mountain, a village in Michigan. A tire at Syracuse, N. Y., Tuesday destroyed three large store, causing a loss of $320,000. The coopers of Milwaukee have withdrawn from the K. of L , because of the prohibition clause in the constitution. Tampa, Fla., where the yellow fever has been raging, appeals for aid. Much suffering exists among the laboring classes. The liabilities of the Riverside rolling mill, of Cincinnati,one ot EL. Harper’s institutions, are reported at $283,187.87; assets $36830. It is claimed that there are 156 saloons in full olast in Atlanta, Ga., selling “nerve tonic,” “soda water” and “rice iear” as “non-alcoholic drinks.’’ The National Republican Committee is called to meet at Washington, Dec, 8, |o fix a time anti select a place for the next National Republican convention. A. M. Daly, proprietor ot the Golden Gate hotel, St. Louis, is in jail, charged with setting fire to the building while 200 persons were asleep within its walls. Rates to California are down to S3O, and the rush of passengers is beyond the facilities of the trans continental. The Southern Pacific threatens to make a rate of sls. Late on Thursday evening crude petroleum was struck in the experimental well in South Hutchinson, Kan., at a depth of 820 feet, thirty six feet below the 150-font salt vein. Mrs. Charles Ballis, of Worthington, Minn., has sold to G. A. R. Commander ft. H. Treadwell, of Albany, N. T., the original ordinance of secession papers of Virginia for the sum of SI,OOO. Much alarm is felt in Chicago over the possible developments in the anarchists’ cases. The most general fear is that a mob will assault the jail the day dwad forth© oxoeationi NoTombor 'lii Mrs Annie Lochs was fined SSO in fit. Louis, Tuesdav, for throwing a pancake into Mrs. Cleveland’s lap at the fair grounds, some days ago. She appealed, claiming that it was in fun. Counterfeit postal cards have been discovered at Pittsourg that are so skillfully executed that their detection is very difficult. This is the first attempt ' made to put spurious postal cards in | eircula-ioii. The Nebraska Supreme Court has decided that the registration laws governjJas.s is unconstitutional, on the ground that | .elective franchises can not be abridged | by statute legislation. Chamley <fc Lovdall, lumber dealers, I of Chicago, nay-failed for nearly $200,- ' 000, and wrecked the Sturgeon Bay Lumber Company, the liabilities of which rre still larger. Creditors will get 40 cents on the dollar. Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Miller, M. D., i pastor of the Shiloh Independent Methodist church at Philadeldhia, was Saturday, sentenced to the penitentiary for seven ye irs. He had been convicted of i causing the death of Mrs. Sarah E. Robinson bv committing a criminal opera1 , ■ ’ ■- > ■ turn. ’ A joint debate on political questions between Henry George and Editor Schevitz occurred at a New York theater Sunday evening. Nearly three thousand persons attended. The best of i: feeling existed,- but the chairman was ) obliged to call on the police once or 2 twice to preserve order. ! Two entire blocks in the business cen- ; ter of Marinette, Wisconsin, were destroyed by fire Thursday. About twen- . ty-flve stores, besides a number of i dwellings were burned, entailing a loss lof $200,000. Also, on the same day, the Fulton iron works, the third largest in i;Ban Francisco. The loss will reach SIOO,OOO. I. j' W. Archibald Forbes, the famous war f {correspondent of the London Daily jLNews, arrived at' New York, on the Alaska Sundav. He is in very poor II health, and looks worn and haggard. j • All bis engagements to lecture have Ebeen canceled, and he is going to WashE ington, where relatives of his wife live, L to try and recover bis strength. r As an outgrowth of the Pacific rail11. road commissioner’s inquiry a petition L has been prepared by representatives of E the holders of the consolidated bonds K of the Kansas Pacific railway company, i and suit will be immediately instituted ■ against J y Gould and Russell Sage as | trustees of the consolidated mortga r e of K the Kansas Pacific railway company. h Their claim is for $8,000,000. I Governor Church, of Dakota, reports 1 another year of wonderful growth and ft prosperity. The popu.ation of the TerKritory is estimated at 568,477, an inter ease of 66,iW) dnriifg the year; the ■assessment i f property in the Territory Eis $157,084,365. an increase of nearly 1|525,000, 000 during the year; the bonded of the Territory is $1,098,K Advices from the Lower Rio Grand «ay that s parry of bandits, nine in ■number, well armed and mounted, cap■tured a r co old raher.er in the lower Igportionoi Encinel -county, Texas, and n

made off with him to heir stronghold. They left word at the ranch that parties desiring to negotiate with them for his release equid leave word at a rendezvous named by them. ■ \ FORsiSN. W. E. ihe well-known traedgian, died in Aus’ralia, Thursday. s Five Russian detectives have been sent to Siberia for conniving at crimes with notorious robbers. ■ • T The town of Ketab in Bucharea, Cen tral Asia, has been destroyed by fire and half of its inhabitants burned to death. Mr. Gladstone’s definite announcement of a demand for the disestablishment of the church in Wales and Scotland has created a sensation. Russian excavators at Jerusalem have discovered the remains of the town wall and the position of the gates through which ihe Savior passed to Golgotha. Mr. Evelyn, conservative, has resigned his seat as member of Parliament for Debford. He declares in his letter of resignation that he can not support the Irish policy of the Government. The Vienna Politiscbe Correspondenz, referring to the great increase of emigration of Austrians to America, publishes a semi-official warning against such emigration, stating that all branches of labor in America are overcrowded.