Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Navigation on the Ohio isl Suspended, Cause why: froze up. Morehead, Ky, is enjoying a marvelous temperance revival. The saloon-closing law has been declared unconstitutional in Kansas City. ■ Bbsfes by fire to iron works in 1887 Maced at $4,381,000 against $3,427,500 in 1886. Bloomington, 111., has just dedicated a public library building erected by popular subscription. Cold Weather still prevails in the Northwest. Bad blockades are reported in several localities. Judge Hofiman, of the United States Court at San Francisco, has decided . .that Chinmnen may. imp jxt opium, Catholic priests, of Chicago, have been prohibited by the Synod from attending theaters or base ball games. Tae Trade and Labpr Assembly at Chicago has voted that the time has come for independent political action. Ex-Secretary of the Navy, R. W. Thompson, ,4)f r Terre Haute, will soon issue a woric by him *on the tariff question. , . . T-ne glass workers in the East - struck against the rule that ncanup facturers shall employ such men as they see fit. A dumber of prominent New York spertsmen have purchased 8,000 acres of wild land in Pennsylvania for a game preserve. The new International bridge at Sault Ste Mgrie, Mich., on the Canadian (Pacific railway, was formally opened for traffic Saturday. The railroad eonstsuction I last year r amounted to K,,724 miles, the largest on ’record. The total mileage in the United States is 650,710. B. H. Barringer, of Troy, "N. Y., died Tuesday of cigarette nicotine poisoning. After death® vein burst and tha blood was as black as ink. The Republicans of the New York 'Legislature, in caucus opr fbe 2d,/pjdtested agtinst the confirmattonJ/bl iLamar as a Supreme: : William of ■ ing his wife fSOff'OOO bach, uistributed ’ various -educational andZteygiouß in'stitutiopfi. The consolidation -of the Philadelphia . and Chartiers Companies at Pittsburg has 7 berni consummated at last, The capital of the two corporWjone wid ne $11,500,000. John North, drunk, -abused his wife in Piiifcdelphia. /Ablow, aimed at her j witX'hia fist, crushed the skull of their tjffee-’rqdnths’-dld ' infant, which was causing instant death. four-foot vein-of almost solid silver has been struck in the Iconoclast Mine near Kingston, N. Mex. The find isone of the richest reported in years. The mine is owned principally by capitalists of Marshall, Mo. Rev. O. A. '©ifford, of Boston, the most prominent Baptist clergyman in New England, has come out as an advocate of the anti-poverty doctrine of Henry George. The announcement causes quite a stir in religious circles. many years grand master of the Exchequer K. of P.,<ef Ohio, who was defeated last session for re-election, is a defaulter to the amount-of $2,500. He settled the deficiency,Wednesday night, and nothing will be done. Whitney Reinhart, £ resident of Brookville, 0., a soldier daring the war of the rebellion, came to Union City, Wednesday morning, to appear before the Board of PensioryExatainers as an applicant for pension -on account of disease of the heart. After his examination, and while waiting for his train, 1 he dropped dead.

.'The Ohio Legislature convined at Columbus, Jan. 2. The House elected E. L. Lampson speaker. The Senate nominations were defeated by Republicans who claimed to have been ignored in caucus and by a combination with the-Democrats. In the deab<ie Recording Clerk is a Democrat, -fix of the * Republican caucas nomines we re elected I and defeated. > Govei nor Hill has appointed General Daniel E. Sickles, of New Ywk City, .and .Oames H. Manning and G. H. Treadwell, of Albany, members of the State < Civil Service Board. Mr. Manning is dhe eldest son of the late Daniel Manning. General Sickles is wellAnown, and Major Trad well is the present commander of the Grand’ Army of the Republic of the State of New York Mayor Hewitt was one of the speakers at the annual banquet of the New York Board of Trade And Transportation, Thursday night,and severely denounced the work of secret organizations as shown in the Reading strike. Tie said that' unless the present struggle disrupted the order which caused it, the issue of the next election would not be the tariff, but the maintenance of law and order. illim.?.. FOREIGN. Emperior Dorn Pedro, of Brasil, is said to be a mental wreck. Maurice Bernhardt, son of Sara, the actress, was married in Paris, Thursday, to a Russian Princess and great granddaughter of Luderr BonaparteA desperate battle between Orangemen and Catholics occurred on Monday at Kellybeam, Ireland. Several houses were wrecked and many persons hurt