Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

\ Bnow and hail in South Carolina, ’Tuesday. Chicago job printers—Bso in nunrber —went on a strike on the Ist, lor a nine hour day. , -" Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, the English fisheries commissioner, arrived in New York Monday. « A Last fiscal year the receipts of the postoffice department were $48,837,008; The New York Academy of Music has been sold to Edward Gilmore and Eugene Tompkins for $365,000. Three little grandchildren of T. S. Oliver, of Faulkner county, Arkansas,burned to death, being left alone at home. J Prospectors on the school section north of Huron, Dak., struck a thirtysix inch vein of coal at a depth of 305 feet. ’ The brassworkers’ strike in New York has ended after three months’ existence, the men going back to work under the old conditions. Dr. Moses Gunn, an eminent physician, died at Chicago, Friday. He wasWell known in medical circles through out the country. A rocket sent up at a political meeting Tuesday night set fire to the Brooklyn residence of Dr. Sleet Spier, on Montague street, and it was damaged $50,000. The Chicago superintendent of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company has notified customers that rebates will be discontinued on and after November 1 Lawrence Barrett says he and Booth intend to continue their present playing arrangement until deah separates them, and that they intend to own a theater in New York. A Washington dispatch ssys that if Secretary Lamar were nominated to be a Justice of the Supreme Court he would not be confirmed because of his active friendship for Jeff Davis. John Hodel, a silk weaver living at Hobson,N.Y. shot his wife Tuesday night and then set fire to The house. Two children were burned to death. Hodel fled, but is now under arrest. The Wilkesbarre company have reached the celebrated coal strata known as “Baltimore vein” at a depth of 1,080 feet and at a cost of SBO,OOO. The value of the find is estimated at $3,000,000. The delegation of members of the English parliament and other representatives of the international peace association and English trades-union congress, headed by Rt. Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, K. C. 8., waited upon the president Monday afternoon. Hon. Andrew Carnegie made the presentation. A correspondent at Salt Lake City writes that the leaders of the Mormons have been so harassed and annoyed of late that they would be quite willing to openly forbid the practice of polygamy if they were not afraid that by so doing they would endanger the entire church structure. The fire at Ironwood, Mich., revealed a gigantic insurance fraud, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, perpetrated in Wisconsin and Michigan by assumed agents in various Cities, who never repor.ed the premiums collected to the companies in whose names the policies were issued. “Bat” Shea,'the noted burglar and habitual criminal, who was serving his fourth term from Chicago, a twenty - year sentence, in Joliet prison, fastened his suspenders to the top of the iron bedstead in his cell and choked himself to death. Shea had been for forty years one of the Chicago’s desperate criminals. Commissioner Atkins reports marked progress during the year in dealing with the Indians. The area of land under cultivation has increased 25,000 acres. Three thousand acres of new land have been broken. The increase in number of families engaged in agriculture is 1,596. and about 120 new houses have been erected. A Washington special, Friday, says: “President Cleveland’s cabinet will be recast the latter part of this month. Mr. Lamar will go to the Supreme Bench, and Postmaster General Vilas will be ma?« Secretary of the Interior. Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan, will be the next Postmaster General, unless he declines the appointment, which has been tendered to him.” Mrs. James Brown Potter’s appearance as a professional actress at the Fifth avenue theater, New York, “modeistically” and socially. There was a gathering such as has never been seen in any house on a Representatives of all the “sets’’ make up New York society were present and most of them were Mrs. Potter’s personal friends, and so crowded was the house that many people who had never before even seen the upper gal lary of a theater were content to occupy seats there rather than miss the affair.

FOREIGN. Emperor William is unable to leave hia bed. Count DeLeeseps says the Panama canal will be of sufficient depth by Feb. 3,1890, for the passage of ships. A monument to Garibaldi was unveiled at Tunis,Sunday, in the presence of a vast concourse of people,including many notables. Sullivan and Jay Gould reached Liverpool the game day, but the latter was entirely lostsight of in the reception tendered the pugilist. An effort was made to put Mr. O’Brien inj>rison garb, Sunday, but he maue

a vigorous resistance, and the* governor was 'finally compelled to desist, the prison physician stating that further attempts would result seriously to Mr. O'Brien in his present state of health. The grand jury at Wolverhampton, England, has decided to make a presentment against Mr. Andrew Carnegie’s book, “Triumphant Democracy,”in consequence of its comtemptuous allusions to royalty, With a view of having the work banished from the public library shelves. The police profess to have received evidence that a dynamite war is to.be carried on again in London and the provinces during* the winter. This time, they say, the campaign of outrages is to be a systematic and scientific conspiracy spread over entire England. The preparations are elaborate. The plot will be carried into execution as soon as the Irish despair of receiving justice in the legal struggle now going on in Ireland. The police are redoubling their exertions. The closest watch is kept on members of-the Clan-na-gael, known to be in the country.