Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1887 — NEWS Of THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS Of THE WEEK.

f Sullivan; the pugilist, is in Europe, Natural gas has been found near Detroit. Irving Hall has ratified the New York Republican city ticket. Henry Irving, and Ellen Terry arrived in New York Friday. The late lamented B.xxtler McGarigle, of Chicago, is at Winnipeg. Yellow fever is spreading into the country round about Tampa, Fla. Fire destroyed $200,000 worth of property at Los Angeles, Cal., Saturday, Dakota’s’ybeat yield is put at 47.000,,000 and Minnesota’s at 30,400,000 bushels. The stock men of Montana fear wholesale cattle stealing by the Crow Indians. Too had. Dr. McGlynn denies the report that he is to repent and re-enter the Catholic church. Gen. Ben. Butler has concluded to support the Democratic ticket in Massachusetts. Out of 2,500 offices the President may ~ appoint, all but 350 have been filled by Democrats. The Michigan Salt Trust will stop work from December to April to reduce the surplus stock. Hon. Gibson Atherton, member of the Ohio Supreme Court, is reported to have lost his reason. V. B. Whitney, ticket agent at East St, Louis, has disappeared. His accounts are nearly $5,000 short. Apaches have made several raids on cattle near Holbrook, N. M., and the ranchers are very angry. Chicago Republicans have renominated Judge Gary, who tried the anarchist cases. He is now on every ticket except the Socialistic. Ilenry M. Jackson, cashier of the New York sub-treasury, has gone to Canada, carrying SIO,OOO of the Government funds with him. The Government last year expended $1,695,379 for Indian education. Of the 39,821 children of school age, 14,932 were enrolled as pupils. A japan drying oven in the Topliff Carriage Hardware Co.’s Works, at Cleveland, 0., exploded, Friday, killing .two men and injuring five. c The J. L. Reagan Printing company of Chicago, one of the largest concerns in the city, failed Thursday for $125,000 The nominal assets are $150,000. The United States Supreme Court has refused Attorney General S. B. Bradford’s application to be heard orally in the prohibition cases from Kansas. President L. 8. Oliver, of the Anarchist Amnesty Association, charges that petitions sentjjout for signatures are not delivered by the postal authorities. The Governor of Louisiana has ordered out State troops to suppress colored Knights of Labor who have been causing trouble to sugars plenters in Terrebonne pa ish. The property of the Northwestern Car Works company at Stillwater, Minn. 5 was sold Friday to the Minnesota Thrasher company, Upon the Sabin plan, for $1,105,000. Mrs. Ellen Ketchun, of Sodus, N. Y., Friday night, was frightened to death by the attempts of a drunken man, whom she mistook for a burglar, to break into her house. The shoe manufacturers of the countrypurpose to organize a National Association “for mutual protection against the unpwvre and imposition of labor unions ami their agitators.” The corner-stone of the statue of R. E. Lee was laid in Richmond, Thursday. The - decorations included Union and Confederate flags draped around portiaits of Confederate chieftains. The Mutual Unidn and Western” Union Telegraph Companies have agreed to maintain the same rate hereafter and the Mutual has advanced its rate to the W. U. standard. Thus is the power of Gould’s great monopoly made manifest. A banquet was given in Paris, Friday night, in celebration of ?he dedication . of the statue of “Liberty enlightening the World.” Mr. McLane, U. S. minister, made a brief speech, and Hon. James G. Blane occupied the seal of honor at the right of the chairman. Much excitement prevails over the discovery of gold and silver in large paying quantities at Shoo Fly, Wis., a point about twelve miles from Wabasha, Minn., up the Chippewa river. The latest report from the assay er returns S4O to the ton in gold and about S2O to the ton in silver. Cynthia E. Cleveland, a cousin of the Pica lent, and department clerk at Washington, has published a book in Detroit in which she attacks a number of prominent men. Bhe accuses Gov. Swineford of jilting her for the woman now his wife, and makes Swineford the villain of the book. J. E. Smith, the express messenger, who recently killed two train robbers near Ei Paso, was paid $2,000 Friday, by order of Governor Ross, as a ’reward for his act. Smith will probably get $2,000 more from the express company and $1,600 from the railroad coinpany, making a total of *5,000. At a negro camp-meeting in Hampton county, South Carolina, a fight followed the introduction of a barrel of whisky. Jacob Jackson, an elder in the church, was killed by a pistol ball in the head, —and-six others w ere s<fc<ba4l y —wennded-4 by cuts in various' parts of the body 1

that death- will result. About twentyfive persons were tyadly bruised in the fight. .The camp meeting a»ijourned. Convicts in the penitentary at Yuma, Ariz , attempted to eeqape Thursday. A life'prisoner snatched a pistol from an escaping criminal and with it killed a man who held an I was stabbing the euperitendent of the institution. None of the conspirators escaped, but two of tht'm were ki'led ami three wounded, one fatally. The superintendent was badly hurt. James A. Bailey, has purchased the entire interest of James L*> Hutchinson, W. W. Cole and J. E. Cooper -ip the Barnum and London circus, menagerie, hippodrome, etc. The firm will now be Barnum & Bailey. Bailey was formerly partner with Hutchinson & Barnum, but ar id out his entire interest, as was supposed, on account of his poor heal th. He is a rich Philadelphian, an old showman and a daring manager. —.- Messrs. Angell aiid Putnam, tbQ fisheries negotiators, have returned to Washington and are in frequent consultation with Secretary Bayard regarding the approaching negotiations The Eiigish are expected about the firpt week in November. The negotiators will meet in the department building in the large room near the secretary’s office known as the diplomatic reception room. FOREIGN.’ The Lord Mayor’s meeting to devise means to aid the unemployed of London, has decided not to open *a special fund, but to urge the public to discriminate in their charities. Thomas Roberlson, member of the House of Commons from Shelburn, N. S., admitted that his agents had been guilty of hiring teams to convey voters to the, polling places, and his seat was declared vacant. The English press assert that Lord Randolph Churchill will replace Lord Lansdowne as Governor General of the Dominion of Canada next May. Lord Randolph will pay a visit to his father-in-law, Mr. Lawrence Jerome, in New within a short time.