Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

r *'■ ‘ .• * Congressman 8. C. Moffatt, of Michi-; an, died, on the 22d. Secretary Manning was buried, Taesay. The President and Cabinet atended. ■ Illinois Democrats will organize clubs inder the name of the Andrew Jackson .<eaxue. f An explosion of dynamite, which was »eing warmed,at Brookfield,N. B.,Friday, Hied four men. The Pennsylvania and New Yoik ail road shops at Oil City, Pa., were turned, Friday. Loss 1100,000. Rev. Dr. McGlynn received a check or $1,200 as a Christmas present from he parishioners of his old church. A convention of western Kansas Connies at Garden City has organized a eague to uphold the purity of the bal-. The bodies of two men,4ri?ze,u- tb' leath, were found near Big Springs, Jex., Monday. weather is bitterly old. faded June 30, 1887, the iXports from the United States were aided at $727,460,635; imports, $712,81,682. The quarrel between the factions in tie Indian Territory has been settled, oel Mays, the Downing candidate, has teen elected chief.

Repons received from the Texas panlandle state that eight persons were rozen to death in Carson county during he recent cold spell. A natural gas explosion at Findlay, killed James Lunday’s wife and hild. Lunday is now a maniac and wo other children are fearfully burned. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, it is relorted, has come out in favor of prohilition, and has advised the Republicans if that State to make that the next issue. The President will receive on New Fear’s day according to the usual programme. The President will be assisted >y Mrs. Cleveland and the ladies of the 3abi et. Chicago and St. Louis and intervening joints on the Alton and Wabash roads ire enjoying a fight between the two .hat gives them freight rates of their own making. The president, secretary and Clerk Hakes, of the Continental Life Insurmce C< mpany; of Hartford, Conn., have keen indicted for making false entries Mid return. ' A boiler exploded at Chester, Pa., on tide 22d, demo’ishing a saw mill, a Breamery and a residence, tearing the deads off of two horses and dangerously njuring six persons. At Wickliffe, Ky., there is a strange jhenomenon of ourning lignite. It is a led of mineral coal, which is, largely impregnated with oil, and has been mrning for weeks. The tenement house fight will be “on” again between the Cigar Maker’s Union and their employers. The latter want to get rid of the expense of keep-

ng up their factories. ' Martin Irons, the leader of the strike E>f 1886 on the Southwestern system, is to-day the presiding genius of a little itall at the O’ Fallon street end of the Biddle market in St. Louis. Herman Eastman, a poor and illitmatefarm hand of Walworth, N. Y., who was left an orphan at an early age, ttas fallen heir to a fortune of $300,000 jy the death of his father’s brother. The Women’s Christian Temperance Onion on Saturday presented the convicts at the Auburn (N. Y.) prison with 1.100 boxes, each containing toilet soap, liair brashes and other toilet articles. | The supposed “Star of Bethlehem,” low seen in the East, is Said bv Prof. Merriam to be Venus. If the supposed ‘{‘Star of Bethlehem” returns it will appear near the north star in the constellation Cassiopeia. ; The,South Carolina Legislature has passed a law making it a misdemeanor tor tradesmen to facilitate the sale of [oods by offering purchasers an inducement to buy in the way of prizes or gifts to accompany the article sold. The total contributions of the archdio eeses of New York to the Papal jubilee fund is $36,665.07. Besides the cash tbfferi; gp, New York Catholics, societies b nd ii divi iuals, have eent many other t stimoiua.s of affection to Pope Lee. Frank McKee, the consumptive rinter of San Francisco, who was marled by a young heiress seven years ago, that as a widow she might have more freedom than as an unmarried woman, has just carried outhispartof the bargain by dying. P . The Pennsylvania Wool Growers’ Association adopted a resolution condemning as “unstatebmanlike, uncalled for and unfair that part of the recent message of President Cleveland practically recommending the placing of wool on the free trade list. The Springfield, 111., Iron Company, manufacturers of steel rails, paid their employes for November $60,000, said to be tne largest pay roll in their experience. The works are now running night and day, the alleged cause being the President’s message. Lisxie Degan sged ten years, WM Arraigned in theJefferßon Market court at New York, Saturday, on the charge of being an habitual drunkard, and.was sent to a reformatory. Her father wenttb the court to secure her release, but was so druna that he was himself sent to jail for ten days. At Atchison, Kan., a cow, which had

been bitten by a mad dog a few days ago, became furiously mad, Mondaf afternoon,and breaking out of the pen in which she'was confined ran down the street. A Mrs. Hillis, who was in her path, was attacked and gored so badly that she died from the effects of her injuries. Seventeen members of Rev. Mr. Grumbine*s church, Syracuse, N. Y., met, Friday, and vpted that Mr. Grumbine ought to resign on account of being a Henry George man. They form a small minority of the membership, but they have the key to the church, and will probably lock the pastor and his friends out. A speciel from Phillips, Wis., vsaye: “The evening passenger train on the Wisconsin. Central Railway was thrown from the track by a, broken rail, about two miles smjth of night. ,JPhfee the track down a fifteen-foot embankment- One pt and fourteen " r General John C. Fremont, accom-panied-by his wife and daughter, arriv ed in Los Angeles Sunday night. They left New York bight days before, stopping two days at Washington en route. The General and family propose to spend the remainder of the winter in Los Angeles or in the vicinity, and while there he will complete his second volume of memoirs.

In a game of three-ball carrom billiards at Boston Wednesday night Harvey McKenna, of Detroit, counted 2,497 without missing, and then stopped because his string for the night was con pie te. The whole run occupied one hour and thirty-five minutes. The best record previous to Wednesday evening was 1,531, made in Paris in two nights by Vignaux. A fire broke out Saturday night in the State Penitentiary, at Michigan City, and completely destroyed the shoe department. None of the prisoners were at work at the time, and there was little excitement. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Phelps, Dodge & Co., of Chicago, who recently sustained a heavy loss in Chicago by fire, will be the heaviest losers by this fire. General R. A. Alger, of Detroit, celebrated Christmas, Mondaj, by giving 1,500 newsboys suits of clothes and 1,000 families a ton of coal and a barrel of flour. The dispensing of this charity will extend over a week, and meantime General Alger will leave for his Redwood lumber camp, California, to be gone all winter. NoneJjf those who will receive coal and flour know of

General Alger’s intentions. .John Stewart eloped from Pittsburg two yearaago with Mrs.’ Grubbs. They came to Chicago, each deserting families, and agreed to marry after two years. Stewart’s deserted wife died, and Mrs Grubbs husband eloped. Stewart built an elegant house at Chicago, where he resided with Mrs. Grubbs, putting the property in her name, and last week he procured a license, but Mrs. Grubbs tore it up and showed him the door. An appeal to the courts, Tnursday, decided in the woman’s favor. Hon. J. B. Manning, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Cleveland, but compelled to resign on account of his health, died at Albany, N. Y„ Saturday. After leaving the Treasury he organized a bank in New York, and then went to Eurone, but since hie return his health has been precarious. All the departments at Washington displayed flags at half mast and general sorrow was manifest. Among the messages of condolence received by his widow was a very tender expression from President Cleveland. ,