Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1887 — THE NATIONAL GRANGE. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL GRANGE.

Condition of th« Organization—The It.xly RenolveH in Favor of Foetal Telegraph. The National Grange went into session at Lansing, Mich., Thursday evening. Worthy Master Darden reported that 147 new granges have been established the past year. The State Grange of Nebraska has been re-established, and work begun in Rhode Island, completing the circle of the Btates. The report of the secretary shows that 140 original charters, forty-seven duplicate charters, deputies certificates, and dispensations of 143 new granges were issued during the year The total receipts were J 3.587. The treasurer reported a balance on hand of $8,054. Resolutions were introduced and reTerred favoring the establishment of a postal telegraph; changing Section 4 of the interstate law; asking for a law prohibiting the adulteration of food and dealing in futures, arid asking for repre-sentation-in the Cabinet. Commissioner oi Agriculture Co!man delivered an address on the work of the department and its relation to the crange.

Acnrrhy Here nu<l There. Tuesday night the house of Inspector Anderson, of Orangeville. Ontario, was again blown up by dynamite. " Mrs. Anderson was alone in the house and was badly shocked. The inspector haa just left the house and was only about one hundred yards away. He was stunned by the concussion. A uote was tacked to the fetfee warhiiig him t,o desi t from efforts.to enforce the pro hibition law. This is the sixth dynamite explosion in Orangeville in two years. The heads of the New York police department, have deoieind-th-al.. 1 the anarchists will not bo allowed to meet and that the carrying of any banners, or the playing of any music, shauld they undertake to parade, will not be permitted. Armed guards watch the vault where the anarchist’s bodies remain. Indications point to the fact that several of the old groups have been reorganized. A dynamite.or gun cotton bomb, two feet long and an inch and a half in diameter, was exploded in the lowa iron works at Dubuque,, lowa, Monday night. A force of. twenty men were at work, but no one was injured. The works have had no trouble with their men.-but have been running a double force for nine months. It is thought the bomb was prepared by some one having a grudge against the workmen, or else an out-and-out anarchist. A Correspondent Kills His Man. A Lexington, Ky., dispatch says: Thos. Green, of Maysville, and Lew Baldwin of Nicholasville, met in this city Wednesday morning and Greene killed Baldwin in a shooting affray. Greene is a correspondent of the Com-mercial-Gazette, and some months ago wrote a communication concerning the conduct of the election in Jessamine county, charging Baldwin and others with certain unlawful acts. The poll books of two precincts in Jessamine . county were stolen. This, among other things, was charged in Greene’s correspondence. When they met Baldwili denounced Greene, calling him all the offensive names at his command. Greene, being somewhat deaf, either could not here or did not choose to resent. Baldwin then drew his pistol and fir# 1, but failed to hurt Greene. The latter shot Baldwin dead. Fined #750 for Stealing #IB,OOO. The trial of Wm. J- Watson at Chicago, for conspiring to defraud the Ansonia Clock company, in connection with Thomas E. Gledhill, out oi $lB,000, has been concluded. The jury, after a retirement of three hours, returned a verdict of guilty and declared that Watson should be fined $750. As k retaliatory measure, Watson has had Alfred A. Cowles, vice president of the company, arrested for perjury. France Haa a Crisis. - Boon after the Chamber of Deputies Saturday, the extreme left moved an interpellation of the Government on the question of its . domestic—policy. A motion was made by the ministry to postpone debate. This motion was rejected by a vote of 328 to 242. Prime Minister Heavier immediately announced the resignation of the Cabinet. —