Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK

A rxbber boot trust has been formed. Next : . The journeymen barbers have organised a National Association. * Mrs. John Jacob Aator died at her home in New York, Monday. California wool gro were are opposed te reducing the tariff on wool. A Straight labor ticket will be rmn in the Boston municipal election. The VirginiaJHguse of delegates urges the repeal of the internal revenue system. - ■ The Texas law taxing commercial travelers has been declared unconstitutional. c The typhoid fever epidemic at Pittsburg is increasing. The disease is of a mild type. The Philadelphia authorities have begun a war of extirmination against bucket ships. Twsnty thousand through passengers arrived in California from the East during November. Sioux City, lowa, brewers have gone •ut of business on account of the recent Supreme Court decisions. Fire at Montgomery, Ala, Wednesday morning burned out three wholesale groceries and other smaller places. Seven men were killed by falling walls •f the Anderson flouring mills at Portsmouth, Ohio, which burned Wednesday. John 8. Barbour has been nominated by the Virginia Legislature to succeed Riddleberger, whose term as Senator expires March 4,1880. The city government of Atlanta is ntirely in the hands of the “wets,” and licenses will be issued in January. The wholesale tax is SI,BOO. A box containing enough nitro glycerine to kill a dozen men was sent through the mails to United States Marshal Jones at Topeka, Thursday. Samuel Spencer was Saturday elected President of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and his salary fixed at $25,000. The salary of ex-President Robert Garrat was $14,000. The wholesale boot and shoe house of Phelps, Dodge & Co., at Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire, Monday evening. The loss runs up into the hundreds of thousands. The railroad companies between Chicago and the Missouri river have agreed to a reduction of 25 per cent, in freight rates, which means a loss of $10,000,000 a year in net revenues. The Secretary of War has ordered the eviction of one thousand colored people from the Arlington estate. The time for the eviction is fixed by formal ordet for middle of February. A dynamite bomb,made out of a piece of gas pipe, was found on the steps of the Reformed Church, at Irvington, N. V., Thursday. The fuse attached to it had been ignited, but it had failed to explode. It is reporte that the Ku Kluk haved broken out in Smith county, Tenn. They whipped four men Monday night and thiee others Thursday night of last week. A regular war is anticipated between them and the citizens. A band of regulators went to the house of Williams brothers (colored), at Lake, Miss., to “regulate” them for misdemeanors. The negroes fired on the crowd, killing Ben Griffith and John McCrany (white) and escaped. Joseph Houser, a colored pension agent of Cairo. 111., was brutally pounded and kicked by a ino'i, at La Forge, Mo., Saturday, whither he had gone on pension business. The cause for the outrageous treatment is not known unless it can be ascribed to his color. The neighborhood of River, a small town in Tennessee, was Wednesday the scene of a triple lynching. Adam Oharies, Andy Miller and Wm. Smith were the victims. The cause was an assault on a ten-year old child, the daughter of Mr. M. Meyers. A Superior Court jury have settled a solemn and momentous question in Massachusetts. They decided that cigars are a medicine, and therefore their sale on the Sabbath is not unlawful. This settles a great many similar cases which are now pending. Wednesday, United States Marshal Byer, as receiver, seized the Mormon Church president’s office, ledgers, books, etc., at Salt Lake City, leaving some minor books, which he required James Jack, church custo* dian, to receipt for as receiver’s agent. The steamer Aleeia, which brought cholera patients to New York sometime ago' has landed 614 passengers at New Orleans from the same infected districts, and they have allowed to separate. Cholera has been introduced twice into this country through New Orleans. On motion of District Attorney Martine, the indictment for forgery against Wm. Kissane, found in November, 1854, was dismissed, Wednesday, by Recorder Smith. Kissane, who is now a wealthy citizen of Calliornia, known as W. K. Rogers, was charged in the indictment with forging a check on the Chemical Bank of New York. fornia,. is creating consternation and eonfoßion by a wholesale removal of Democratic officials. Some of tjre Democrats are holding on so that the State has a double Board of Health, double Board of Fish Commissioners, and is likely to have several other officers in duplicate. A dispatch sayc “The dar-

l ing novelty of his administration is likely to make him the next Governor;” Hen Hopkins, of Cincinnati, son of the assistant cashier of the Fidelity Bank,testified in the Harper trial Thursday that he was approached by friends of Harper, who offered him SIOO,OOO to give evidence in Harper’s favor or withhold his information. When this came out, Harper became wild and accused Hopkins of stealing money. A sensation was produced in court. 'At Kansas City, Mo., two hundred' and thirty leet of solid masonry, at no place less than twenty feet in width,and of a depth of fifty feet, has disappeared. It waß a portion of the outwall of the vast reservoir, atQuindaro, of the v at* r works of that city. The sinking of this vast pile of stone into the ground has revealed the fact that the wtiole reservoir has been built on quicksand. Rsv. Hugh O. Pentecost, pastor of Congregational Church, Newark, whose sermon of sympathy with the Chicago anarchists was so severely criticised, resigned Bunday, telling the congregation that his piety and Christianity are of a variety superior to that taught in churches. Mr. Pentecost will propably preach hereafter in a hall in New York Citv, the expenses being met by subscription. BThe Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Cojpmission has submitted to Governor Ogleßby their report upon the Chatsworth train wreck, stating that, in their opinion, “the train would not have been destroyed if the bridge had Dot been burned before the train reached it . ” They found no evidence to show that the burning was the work of an incendiary, but held that the railroad is censurable for neg ect in failing to inspect the Condition of the track and bridges in advance of the train. FOKISIGN. Two young people were drowned at Beieoil, Quebec, Friday by falling through the ice while skating; also, two in*a pond at Lake View, near Chicago, from the same cause. At the annual meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture in London, Wednesday, many provincial delegates were present. A motion favoring protection was passed by a vote of 2 to 1. The English Government has dishonored bills to the amount of $200,000 drawn by the late General Gordon during the siege of Khartoum, although the Cairo mixed tribunal has decided in favor of them. Tne holders of the bills have begun action against the private estate of General Gordon for payment.