Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public debt was inereaeed $1,400,950 during November. Something like cholera has broken •at in Youngstown, Ohio. Hyde Park; with 0,000 population, has been annexed to Chicago., Algerou S. Snlliv&n, the well-known New York lawyer, died Monday. (harp, the New York boodler, was released on $40,000 bail, Thursday. The surplus in the United States treasury is increasing at the rate oi $1,000,000 a day. The Chicago printers’ strike for nine hours a day and no reduction in pay has fai'ed. Governor Ames’s plurality for governor in Massachusetts was 17,60*. Thereat of the Republican ticket averaged 24,000. The Republicans claim that the Democratic majority of 1,600 in Virginia was worsen up by doctoring the returns and that the Republican majority in 6,462. Daniel Leady, Democratic inspector •f elections at Albany, N. Y., has been arrested, charged with perjury and fraud in the senatorial contest in the recent •lection. Mr. S. Tyler, while drunk at Webberville, Mich., fatally injured one of a party of boys. He was jailed and afterward set fire to the buiding, perishing in the flames.« In a battle between revenue officers and moon-shiners on Band mountain, near Chattanooga, Friday, one of the latter was mortally wounded. Their still was destroyed. James Yancy, of Scott connty, Arkansas, ran away with his employer’s wife to Indian Territory. The couple were •vertaken by the irate husband and a fight took place, in which both men were mortally wounded. The amount of land restored to the public domain through the orders revoking the imdemnity withdrawals, is stated by the commissioner of the general land office to be 21,123,6000.

The Wbitely, Fassler & Kelly receivership, at Springfield, 0., ended Friday, creditors having accepted 50 cents on the dollar. The corporation will be reorganized as the Whitely Reaper company and start the works January 1. The Stobridge Lithograph works, at dinunnati, was destroyed by fire early Thursday morning. The loss exceeds $960,000. The business of this firm wsb probably the largest of any similar concern in the United States. Jumping-dog, the Indian who fired the Cheyenne agency, a few days ago, was captured Thursday night. Friday morning he attacked his guards, and stabbed two of them to death with a pair of shears, and then committed suicide. Some time ago a movement was set en foot at’Macon, Ga., to raise by popular subscription a Jeff Davis fund. The project was heartily approved by the press and the people, and bade fair to be a great success, but it has fallen tiirough. The project was abandoned at the earnest request of Mrs. Davis. In drilling a gas well near St. Mary’s, 0., at the depth of 885 feet an immense gravel bed and flow of water was struck. The water was forced out of an eightI inch pipe, 125 feet in the air, together f with a large quantity of gravel and cobble-stone, some of them weighing t three pounds. Alexander Taylor, a driver of one of the New York mail wagons, was arrested Thursday for wholesale robbery of the mails. In one batch he secured drafts for $2,011, S6OO and $125, respectively. One letter contained thirteen drafts from a down-town bank. He cofessed his guilt and was held for examination. He had been in this country only six weeks, and had been driving the wagon three weeks. The official returns of the late New York election, completed Tuesday, show the following results for Secretary of State: Frederick Cook, (Democrat), 469,888; Frederick D. Grant, (Republican), 452,811; Henry George, (United Labor), 70,055; Dewitt C. Huntington, i (Prohibitionist), 41,850; Edward Hall, [ (Labor), 7,622; Thomas K. Beecher, I (Greenback), 958; Preston, 1,017; blank, /scratchingand defective, 1,179. Whole f number of votes, 1,045.872. Cook’s plurality, 17,077. POKhION. By shocks of earthquake which occurred at Bisigorano, Italy, Saturday, twenty persons were killed and a large number injured more or less severely. The mill-owners of Northampton, whose employes are on strike, have declared a lockout. This action renders 15,000 workers without means of obtaining employment until the masters shall see fit to resume. J