Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Tain pa. Fla.,yellow epidemic is ended. Secretary Whitney has returned to Washington in good health. •The Republican plurality in the retent Pennsylvania election was 44,241. The Democrats have a majority of 14 on joint ballot in the Virginia Regis ature. Knights of Labor have decided to boyjott the Lehigh Valley road lor its acton in the miners’ strike. The Findlay (0.) real estate boffin is joilapsing, and speculators are being lelf with lands on their hands . Two C., H. & D. freight? collided at Lima, Ohio, Thursday, wrecking fifteen jara and killing an engineer and a firenan. In a speech Friday night Mr. Powdery said tire Gpvernnaent should take roesession of the. coat mines and estabish telegraphy. . Mr. Carlisle Saturday told a reporter hat it was.quite probable that he and dr. Randall Would have a conference m the tariff question. A wagon containing four men was ■an into by a train at West Newton, vfass., Thursday, and ah four were rilled or fatally injured. The wires of the Canadian Pacific iailroad Telegraph company at Griffin lake and Revelstake are being crossed >y bears that are amusing themselves r yclimbing the telegraph poles. In a collision Friday on the'Baltimore k Ohio road between two freight trains hree men were killed and Ive others njured. The collision oecured about jfteen miles south of Pittsburg, Twenty thousand people witnessed i championship foot ball game bewoen Yale and Harvard clubs, Thanks;iving day. The game was closely ontested, but won by’ Yale, giving them', also, the championship. The Cincinnati Price Current insists hat the corn crop this year will be but ~450,000,000 bushels, or only about hree-fourthß the usual crop, and 200,100,000 bushels short of last year’s short irop. The evidence in the matter of the iharges of discrimination by railroads n favor of the Standard Oil company ihows that the law has been violated by rllroadssoJar represented on the witless stand.

A decrease of only 10 per cent, is reported in the stock shipments from Montana and Western Dakota this year. It was thought the expor s would fall nuch below the figures-given, ns cattlenen suffered very heavy losses last vinter. H. V, Leslie and James L. Wilson, embezzling secretary and treasurer of he Delaware and Chesapeake Canal tompany, pleaded guilty in Philadelphia, and were sent to prison for eight md^rawears“Tespeutiveiyr-They stole £600,000. The Mayor and councilmen of Lin;oln, Neb., were fined $5,000 Thursday jy the United States Court, for eontempt in disregarding an injunction by removing a police judge. The Mayor ind three of the councilmen were fined only SSO each, but the others will have to pay S6OO each. Judge C. B. Grant, of Detroit, Mich., lalled a meeting of saloon-keepers, and read to them the liquor laws. He told ~hem the acts Were passed to be obeyed in his district, and said offenders would be dealt with strictly in accord* ince with the letter. Francois Radvux died at his home Thursday, in Portland, Me.; at the age of nipeiy-seven years. He was an officer in the Old Guard of the First Napoleon, and probably the last One of the million men who followed the Corsican leader. Henry George’s paper, the Standard, hints that the George party will have no presidential ticket in the field next year, but will make a struggle to elect some Congressmen,hi the hope of securing a balance of power in the House, by' the aid of those interested in tax reform. State Attorney Grinnell, who is trying to have the Chicago bucket-shop keepers indicted, feaid-that the latter had promised him proof that the regular .Board oi Tiade was nothing but a buck-et-shop. If the proof was forthcoming he declared he would bring the case of the board before the grand jury. James Malley, one of the young men who figured in the Jennie Cramer murder case at New Haven, is now accused by a young woman of Kingston, Pa., of ruining her, and of giving her medicine for criminal purposes. The accused is now a physician at Kingston, and his latest victim is not expected to recover. The eviction cases of the Stout Coal company, of Milnesville, Pa., against strikii g miners was decided in favor of the miners. Saturday morning. Judge Woodward granted a rule to strike off judgments entered by the company for iisposse-wing rhe striking tenants. The men will under these rulings hold possession of their houses during the remaining tyne of the strike, and can not be evicted, .A suit that has forits object the taxation oi smcke and bondi of railroads and other corporations operated in Ohio and Other States in the hands of Buckeye citizens, was commenced, We'dnesdav, in the dupre ue Court. .If successful, the sui: '■<. ,11 be the means of relieving thepre-t'u- tax payers to the extent 6f millions of dollars.

The California Insurance company sued Lampertand Bishop, Joliet wiremill owners, to recover the insurance paid on their mill which burned in 1883. J. M. Whyte, formerly snperinttmdept of the mill, testified that beset it afire fob the firm to get the insurance money, but the jury didn’t believe him and gave a verdict for the defendants. Whyte will be prosecuted for perjury. Investigation baa developed the fact that the late Chas. Albert Kebler, the Cincinnati attorney who committed suicide on Wednesday, was driven to deed by the approaching revelation of heavy forgeries committed by him in the management of estates and trust spuds commuted to his care. An estimate is made lhat the liabilities thus incurred amount to about $175,000 whi’e the value of the property left by Mr. Kebler will not exceed $60,000. The persons most seriously affected are his own family and friends. The astonishing revelation discloses the mo tive to be nothing more than a desire to keep, up a style of luxurious living beyond his means. - The use of trust funds I baying been begun, the continuance became an apparent necessity- ,n " stance is given where SIO,OOO were invested for a client, and all the papers relating to it, including the mortgage, were forgeries. Friends find -the case so strange that they readily agree that some form of insanity must have led him into a course so far removed from what might have been expected of one with his training and antecedents. FOREIGN., President Grevy announces that* be will resign Thursday. The westward movement of Russian troops, more toward Germany than Austria, continues. La :i Paxsays PresidentGrevymaynot resign until he has trade the republic secure against adventurers. The German Reichstay reopened Sunday. The Emperor sent a speech breathing, piety and brotherly love. The last mail advices from Congo state that Tippoo Tib had not ye' sent the carriers to Stanley’s rear guard to Yambergato convey for ward stores for Emin Bey, as he had promised to do. Stanley proceeded without these stores, oil the strength of Tippoo Tib’s promise to have them sent at once, and many of the former’s men have died from starvation in consequence of. its non fulfillment.

The merchants and prominent citizens of Edinburg, Rome and Rio Grande City have presented Captain Febrino La Madrid, of the Mexican army, with a purse of SI,OOO in gold and a magnificent silver-mounted Winchester rifle, in appreciation of bis services in puttingdown bandits. This testimonial from American citizens to a Mexicali is regarded as significant. , During the banquet given by the Benchers of the Temple to the Prince ot Wales, Friday* evening, on the termination of the Prince’s year in office as treasurer, the bund which was in attendance stYuck up the Boulanger march, “En Revenaut tie La Revue.” The Prince sent instant orders for the band to stop, wincWtfieyjMd abruptly. The incident caused quite a flutter of excitement.