Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Christ mas Crimea. [ARTICLE]

Christ mas Crimea.

T«x French peasants who witnessed tbeaet-to between Kilrain and Smith Viought in the beginning that it was a Sluel. But when the claret began to ' flow they knew it wasn’t a duel at all. It was entirely too bloody for any due) fought on the sacred soil of France. Tkb meeting of the Indiana Republi«ana last week, and the proposed meeting of Indiana Democrats a week or two henee, is evidence enough that Indiana soil will be covered with political gonin the year 1888 The State will have n sympathetic nation, also, viewing the battle from afar. ]• is reported, but not ccfirmed, that Prince Ferdinand will soon resign th* ridership of Bulgaria? We hope the report is unfounded. That little nationality has already attracted enough of the avorU’s attention, in its efforts to get a ruler, to satisfy a much nigger country for several years. It is to be hoped, tberef.ire, that we won’t 'hear from Bulgaria again until the Cxar steps in to swallow it up. Twa prize fght between Smith, of England, and Jake Kilrain, of Baltimore, on French territory, last week, was an international a flair, and as., such commanded wide attention. We are wot interested in this brutal sport and only give spate to this item that we may express the pleasure we have in knowing that the American was the better man of tne two. Next it will be S illivan and Kilrain and then the great Presidential-knock-out. Thus one joy follows close after another. A vkmobial presented to the Senate, asking for a new extradition treaty with Canada, covering casesof embfszlement, gave a list of fifty-three embczalements and the amounts in each case. The largest is that of Bartholomew, the insurance man of Hartford, for fI,COO,COO, end the aggregate embt azlcments foot up tho sum of $3 840 570. This represents, says an exchange, a pretty steady flow of capital from the United States to Canada, without any apparent compensation. There ought to be reciprocity of some kind. Twb revolutionary war wasn’t fought yesterday, and yet there are thirtyeight old ladies,, averaging 85 years, who are still revolutionary pensioners. Nancy Rains, of Carter’s Furnace, Tenn., __ JsJlhaoldest, age, 95; Betsey Walling ford, of.Mankato, Minn.,'is'next, at 91. The Illinois pensioners are Sarah Dabah Dabney, of Barry, and Jane Harbieon of Pinkneyville. The old veterans must have taken young brides or there would not be on Uncle Sam’s books even this small roster of dependents 7- whom it is the pleasure of our Government to provide for.

Chicago enjoyed a perfect saturnalia of crime. Robert Drew knifed two other workingmen, Paul Krautwald and Charles Kaerttr, in a drunken quarrel over the prospects of a general war in Europe. Krautwald and Kaertl te are badly slaehed r but have a chance of l ie. Wm. McAuley, a bookkeeper, was killed by his wife, because he had set up an establishment with bis sister-in law, abandoning her. Nellie Taylor, a colored prostitute, stahbed-Annie Crawford to death for stealing her child. Officer James Moore attempted to make peach among a gang of intoxicated German?, and was set upon by seven of them and beaten into insensibility. A party of drunkards attempted to yen Albert Cates, bartender, out of John Conmr’s saloon at Erlanger, Ky., but faile 1 miserably. A riot ensued, and several of the aggressors were badly wounded. ■' ' ' ' ■ Walter Muhins got up a diversion «dn a train near Mt. Vernon, Ky.,’6Tf vor the escape of his friend, Hugh McHorgue, under arrest forseduction. He was so far successful that both he and Cal Chumjey, the officer, fell from the train and were killed. McHorgue escaped.