Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Forakers’s plurality is 24.958 Last year the B. k •. railroad earned 16,500,000 net. The National farmer’s congress met at Chicago; Thursday. The agricultural bureau estimates the corn crop at 1,453,000 bushels. Fielden aud Schwab were to the penitentiary at Joliet, Saturday. General Morgan adds his denial to that of General Gordon that he Was kissed by the latter. The Philadelphia shoe manufacturers, Monday, opened their shops to all employes irrespective of their labor affiliations. Dr. Ames, mayor of Minneapolis, is the latest candidate for the place of Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Tne twelve women who voted at Kat tleville, near Binghamton, N. Y., last week, will be arrested aud prosecuted or illegal voting. Harry Garfield, son of the late President Garfield, is attending lectures on law and political science at Oxford University, England. Numerous complaints against the railroads for unjust discrimination continue to be made to the interstate commerce commissions Rev. O. H. Pentecost, of Newark, N. J., preached a sermon Sunday warmly eulogizing the executed anarchists and denouncing their execution. * ■ Thts Marine hospital service, last year, Co3t $461,338; for the prevention of epidemic diseases $486,490 were spent. There were 43,314 sailors treated. It is said that indictments for murder still stands in the Chicago courts against about seventy-five anarchists, and at the first break they will be executed. A cotton-shed owned by Brooks,Neely & Co., in Memph>a, burned, Friday, together with 6,300 bales of cotton. The loss is $275,000, with $300,000 insurance. Cashier Ciecellius, of the Fifth National bank, St. Louis, falsified accounts for five years so as to carry four or five concerns in which he was interested and which finally broke the bank. A Charleston (W. Va-) paper says it is reported that the forest fires have caused such an unnatural heat in Boone county that trees are budding, and leaves and blossoms are coming out. A mob assaulted the house of Mary Dufl, Fifteenth ami Pine streets, St. Louis, because she displayed emblems of grief at the death of the anarchists. The mourning signs were torn down. W. H. Carter, a practical jeweler, of Steubenville, 0., was arrested,Thursday, and confessed tohavingcotuplicityin the robbing of a jewelry store at Uhrichsvil’e, ()., reeer.tly, and implicatißg three others. - ' Offices Bray shot and killed George Grant, colored, in Kansas City,Wednesday, for refusing to halt when ordered. In 1882 Giant killed officer Pat. but another negro was caught and ynched for the crime. The Methodist Episcopal bishops Thursday fixed the missionary appropriation for the ensuing year at $1,150,-

000; the amount last y ear was $1,044,195. Of next year’s appropriations, $621,945 villg'o to foreign missions. The richest strike ever made in Arizona Territory was discovered in the Santa Preata mountains hear Prescott, last week. The two men who discovered the ledge took out sl6 000 in three dayljby means of a mortar. An American flag displayed at halfmast from the roof ol Herman hall, German resort, at North Adams, Mass., caused an. angry crowd of all nationalities to assemble Friday, and in order to ,eav.e t= hy.bdildaia.lrom beihg ..demolish-* ed'the flag was lowered. Mayor Lv.robe, of Baltimore, refused to receive a statue of Chief Justice Tailey, presented by W. T. Walters, from the hands of S. Teakle Wallace, because of the latter’s criticism* of his official conduct during the recent campaign. Consequently the statue was unveiled, Saturday, without ceremony. One of the largest single business deals probably ever consummated in the world, wag ratified at Chicago Saturday, when the entire' property and franchises of the the Chicago West Division Street Railway company passed into the hands of ne w purchasers—the Philadelphia Street Car Company. The price agreed upon was $13,090,000. Secretary Lamar has sent a letter to Oomipiasioner Sparks shkrply replying so a communication from him relative to the adjustment of the Chicago, Bt. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha landgrants, and saying that either he or the Secretary must retire from the department. Secretary Lamar addressed a letter to President Cleveland, Friday evening, inclosing a copy of his letter to the Commission*-*, He asks the President to deeide which of the two officials shall leave the department. Saturday was a gala day for the New York fire department. At B p. m. all the fire companies of the eity assembled at “Park Cottage,” where a gold medal was presented to Captain Daniel Lawler for having maintained the highest record for discipline and efficiency in hi* company, and another to Fireman Michael Brady for displaying the highest degree of personal valor in the line < * 1 j- v - om flags were presented to the fire commissioners by Mayor Hewitt. These tfiagsare embtems of bonor, and the ceremony of their presentation will recall

the fact that Mrs. Cleveland had been invited to present them. The proceedings of the day dosed with a parade, in whifch all the firemen and a detachment of mounted police and a force on foot took part. roatuoM. , ■ O’Brien complains of being slowly torture! to death in Tullamore jail. Terrible floods have devastated portions of Bon-nan China. Hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of the province are destitute. In one place 5,000 men, who were engaged in repairing embankments, were overwhelmed by the flood and 4,000 drowned. Another terrible inundation has occurred in Siae Chuen.