Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

' Cincinnati is short in coal. Coal has taken another raise. Typhoid fever prevails in New fork state. Irving Hall Democracy talk of disbanding that organization. Anti-music United Brethren threaten to withdraw from the church. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, is likely to succeed Lamar as secretary of the interior. The strike of negro plantation laborers in Louisiana has ended, the men going back to work.

England is now “wild” Sullivan the slugger, he creating even a greater sensation than Buffalo Bill. The northwest saw milling season is over. The cut was 2,000,000,000 feet, or #0,000,000 less than last year. The members of the British fishery commission were formlly presented to the President at noon, Saturday. Another bandit—the twentieth—has been caught at San Miguel, Mexico. The last one caught has been shot. Ex-Senator Tabor has struck it rich again in the Matchless mine, where the metal was supposed to have been exhausted.

The Union Labor party convention of Wisconsin almost unanimously tabled a resolution condeming the elocution of the anarchists. At the government diffusion process experimental station in Louisiana a yield of 200 pounds of sugar to a ton of cane was obtained. Forest fires in the swampß about Gohenda, 111., have burned much hay and houses and barns. One young man has been burned to death. The National Grange has adopted a resolution looking with favor upon cooperative societies, but denouncing all forms of socialism and anarchy. Civil Service Commissioner Oberly has joined Mr. Edgerton in opposing Mr. Lyman’s proposition to extend the scope of the civil service law. ——

An teroli'te' weighing three tons dropped in front of a bank in the streets of Amsterdam, N. Y., Friday, making a deep indentation in the ground. Jt 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. Captain Thomas C. Ring, an old and wealthy citizen of Newburg, N. Y., was bunkoed out of $6,000 in that city, Friday, by mean&of the old lottery dodge. State Senator Ketcham, of St. Louis, has been convicted of illegally registor- . ing the names of a lot of mythical peo*. pie just before the general election last fall. •

Ex-Congressman Sweet, of Portland, Maine, in an interview expresses the opinion that IVIr. Blaine will he renominated and wiil be defeated by Mr. Cleveland. During the year ended June 30 last, there was a reduction of $103,471,097, in the debt. Government receipts from all sources $371,403,007; expenditures, $266 932.179. The W. G. T. U., in its session at Nashville. Friday, re-elected Miss Francis E. Willard president. A missionary board was created to further the gospel work ic all sections. Mrs. Herman B. Fay, a “materializing medium,’’ in Boston, who has been doing a big lousiness, was completely exposed Friday afternoon by a delegation sent out by the Record. A sensation has been caused at the poor farm, near, Hudson, Wis., by the discovery there of a genuine leper in the person of Martin Donaldson, who came from Ceylon a few years ago. The story is circulated among New York clnb men that Allen Thorndike Rice, of the North American Review, won $22),000 from Pierre Lorillard. a baccarat in the Union club recently. Dwight L. Moody Sunday inaugurated a series of revival meetings at Pittsburg, at the Grand Central rink. The services

Sunday were attended by over 12,000 persons. There were fifty conversions. It is reported at Fort Worth that Indians are burning the Oklahoma country. No cause is assigned for the alleged outbreak. The supposition is that there is’ an uprising against “boomers.” Sheriff Matt Lair, while out on offhial business in the northwestern part of Fayette county, put-up at a farm house over night, and in the morning discovered some Che ky thief had stolen his horse.

Hog cholera is reported to the Illinois Jive stock comtnis-ion as prevalent in nineteen comities in the State* In some counties the fa'alittes have amounted to 70 per cent, among the young stock and 50 per cent, of the mature stock. The New York Supreme Court, Friday, refused to admit Hong Yen Chang, a young Chinamen, as a member of the bar, he having passed the examination. His application was denied on the ground that he was not a citizen and that he .could not become one. The conference of the M. E. Church south has- *di pt- d the following resolution. “Resolved. That we are profoundly convinced of ihe evil character and influence of the theater, and of its power as a promoter of irreligion, immorality and vice.” A party of for y surveyors and their assistants, um'er the immediate control of Civil Engineer R E. Peary, will leave -New York City on next Saturday on the

steamer Hondo for Nicaragua, for the purpose of makingminute and extended eurveys of the canal route. Nina Van Z&ndt is said to be endeavoring to starve herself to death. She has eaten no food since the anarchists were executed.

Deputy United States Marshal George Jacks, who is at Grand Rapids, Mich., attending the United States couid, was arrested, Friday night; charged with robbing several Muskegon stores. A quantity of the missing goods, including forty rolls of Cloth and several clocks, were found in his room. The federal land officer at Eau Claire has notified the Wisconsin Central railroad that 2,800 acres of the land in the Central’s indemnity have been entered by settlers under interior withdrawals. More settlers will go on, despite the railroad company’s threat to prosecute all persons encroaching, pending selections. i

Suit was brought in the Commom Pleas Court of Hamilton county, Ohio, Friday, by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company, against Henry S. Ives, Russell Sage et. al, for cancellation of $4,600,000 worth of preferred stock issued by Ives and George H. Staynor. which, the complainants assert was not legal. The committee having the matter in hand have decided to present to John Greenleaf Whittier, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, a suitably inscribed memorial, to be signed by the public men of Massachusetts, the Governor, Senators and members of Congress, in grateful recognition of the poet’s services to the commonwealth and the na ion.

The Musical union was expelled from the New York Central labor union, Sunday, for refusing to order out the orchestra of the Union Square theater, where non-union carpenters are employed. A motion by building trades section to revoke the resolution passed at a former meeting, which expressed sympathy with the Chicago anarchists, was table. —■ - roKKiGN.: The Czar and Czarina of Russia arrived in Berlin, Friday,and was received with great ostentation. An interchange of visits between the Czar and his dignitaries and the Emperor of Germany, Bistnark and their dignitaries, followed.