Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

diphtheria is raging at Catlin, 111. Coffee continues to advance in price. Hot Springs authorities are driving the gamblers ont of town. General Butler voted the Republican ticket in Lowell, Tuesday. Extremely heavy falls of snow are reparted from Western Texas. Natural gas has been ttruck at Fair- ' view, near Santa Anna, Cal. Hon. Joseph Bodwell, Governor of Maine, died at Hallowed, that State, on the 15th. St. Augustine, Fla., had a $200,000 fire on the South side of the plaza, Thursday. A hotel at Crescent, Cal., was blown Sown, with sixteen occupants. Two were killed. Milwaukee had a hundred-thousand-fire Saturday morning, in I.' C. Iverson’s pioture-frame factory. A flowing oil well was struck Wednesday night upon Samuel Craig’s farm, three miles northeast of Noblesville. Chester Bellows was hung Friday at Charles -City, lowa, for the murder of his niece, Alice Waterman, July 8,1886. A United States fish commission car has reached the city of Mexico with 1,000 carp and gold fish, a gift to Mexico. Ghicage officials had to use force to get possession of the offices of Hyde Park, which recently voted for annexation. Minnesota dairy-men will ask Congresss to prohibit the manufacture of fcaudulent butter or have it solored pink. Joseph Knight, book-keeper of the Manufacturers’ National Bank of Philadelphia, has been arrested for embezzling $70,000. General Longstreet has applied for a pension under the Georgia law providing for such relief to wounded Confederate soldiers. The court house at Mayfield, Ky., together with all the county records, was destroyed by fire, Sunday, causing a loss of $50,000. The Ohio State Grange, in session at Canton, O.,Thursday, opposed putting raw materials on the free list, or reducing the wool tariff. ‘The National Merino Sheep Register Association" met in annual session at Jackson, Mich. Earnest opposition to Cleveland’s tariff policy was expressed. A movement in favor of George W. Childs for the presidency' has been started in Philadelphia, for the purpose of splitting the Pennsylvania delegation. _ Trouble is expected among the Knights of Pythias, the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge refusing to conform its constitution to that of the National Lodge. John Banister and Robert W. Terril were shoe from ambush by moonshiners, last Saturday, at Russelville, Ala. They had given information against moonshiners. General Mahone was Wednesday night nominated by the Republicans of the Tirginia Legislature to succeed Senator Eiddleberger as United States Senator. Clinton A. Snowden and James W. West, of the Chicago Mail, have secured a controlling interest in the Chicago ISmes, and the policy of the paper will [ be materially changed. Murders are reported as daily occurr rences in the Public Land Strip, and the Texas Pan Handle people are clamoring for Congress to place it under law. Desperados are flocking there. A report comes from Eldorada, Kan., that a well organized movement is to be j Made on Oklahoma in the Spring. A leader says 100,000 men will go on, enough to keep the troops ofl. Three negroes who assaulted two white ladies in Pemberton County, Fla., were caught by a mob, hung up on a tree and tortured by a fire built under them. They were ihan shot to death. The official statement of the vote on division of Dakota showß that in the northern portion the [majority against division is 10,000; in the southern por | tion the majority for division is 13,938. I The Edison Electric Company’s boiler at Westchester, Pa„ exploded Friday, killing Superintendent Embire, three laborers and Hattie Jones, who was on theatreeta biock away. Others were / badly scalded;; — , ■ ■ —-—— ~ An old unsatisfied mortgage, dated 1840, has been found which affects the title to about one-sixth of the real estate of Shamokin, Pa. The sheriff has notified the landholders that he will self the property December 30. The Tortilla Gold and Silver Mining Qompany has sued James Gordon Bennett for an alleged libel in a recent article saying the company was a colossal bunco scheme. The damages claimed are $500,000. The President of the com. pany also sued for $250,000 damages. The feud between the Adams and Caswell factions broke ont again last Sunday night in Rock Castle county, Ky. Frank Adams was killed by one of the Caswells* *nd since then Frank Haslon, James Townsend. Tom Jackson and two others, names unknown, have been killed, while many others have been wounded and several houses have been burned. Justice Kilbreth, of the Tombs Police Court, New York, Saturday, dismissed the ease against Henry 8. Ives, who was charged by J alius Dexter, of Cincinnati, with stealing a draft for. SIOO,OOO from

the Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton Railroad. Ives says he will at on;e institute proceedings gagainst President Dt xtor, claiming ’sloo,ooo for malicious proeecuiion. J rOKKUIM. " l'"“~~ No news hes been received from Stanley, and there is much uneasiness in London. Annie Bark,- of Toronto, Ont, has confessed to poisoning her mother, who died Thursday. The Newfoundland bait act, forbidding the sale of bait to foreign fishermen has received royal assent. The assistance of the Catholic church is believed to have been secured by the Government in Ireland. Mr. David Sheehy, M, P., who was arrested in Limerick, after evading the police for a long time, was Friday sentenced, at Ballyran, to three months’ imprisonment at hard labor. The Marquis of Fly, who recently refused the tenants hisWexford estate a reduction of 25 percent, has just granted a reduction of 50 per cent, and easy erms of payment, and will reinstate ah tenants evicted. As Vienna dispatch, Saturday morning, states that a strong feeling exists there in favor of sending to It. Petersburg immediately Austria’s ultimatum, followed, in case of an unsatisfactory repiy, by rapid march by German and Austrian forces on the Russian frontier. It is feared that war is imminent, and can in no wise he postponed longer than the spring. The feeling in Vienna, the dispatch says, is intense.