Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The thermometer Monday registered 7* below lero at Minneapolis. Pire in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Thursday, caused a loss of $200,000. A large deposit of bituminous coal has een discovered near San Antonia, Tex. A viaduct at Cleveland, 0.,fe11, Thurs ay, killing two men and injuring five there. The river reached twenty-two feet at Pittsburg Sunday, and shipments will to made at once. Booth and Barrett closed Saturday at he Academy of Music, New York, after two weeks in which they took $50,000. After twenty-four years of experience as anon-union office, the Chicago Times has gone into the Typographical Union. A Norfolk and Western engine jumped the track, running into New River, near Central, Va., Wednesday, killing two men. Naturfel gas has been found in the Leland Hotel fountain, Chicago. It comes up in an artesian well 125 feet deep. The anniversaryjof the battle of New Orleans was observed by Democratic Clubs all over the country Monday night. Tickets of membeiship in the New York Produce Exchange, which a few wears ago were valued at $4,500 are now valued at but $1,700. b Alexander Sumpter, and Charles Asher were assassinated from ambush while itanding in Sumpter’s yard in Iron 3oun’y, Missouri, Thursday. The Wichita Board of Trade officially mnounces that an investigation proves hat there was no suffering in Western Kansas during the recent blizzard. Three Hungarian workmen were kill.j d and eleven injured by the prernaare explosion of a blast on the Lehigh vfcliey Road, near Wilkesbarre, Pa.

T. Johnson, a drunken railroad brakeman in Sedalia, Mo., shot Policeman Joe Garsage in the cheek and mortally ■wounded Policeman Jim Garsage, Monday. Carnegie, Phillip’s <k Co.’s furnace men a£ Braddock, Pa., have demanded alO ptr cent, advance in wages. The firm say a slight reduction will haye to be accepted. The Glidden patent of barbed wire fencing has been declared invalid by an lowa court because it lacks novelty. Manufacturers will refuse to pay any more royalty.

Eunice Cattrell died on the Pequat reservation near- North Stonington, Conn., Monday/aged 115 years. She was a great grandchild of King Philip, the Indian magnate. J Mr. Moody began evangelistic services y jbf'-LouißviTe, Sunday, in a tabernacle specially for him, holding 5,000 or 6,00 Cf people. The music is under The huge mastiffs, owned by Lawyer Thomas H. French, of Camden, N. J., nearly killed Mr. and Mrs. French and /Jennie Young, the bright little daughter jyaf ■ a neighbor, Sunday afternoon. Fires: The North Marion glass works, at Marion, Ind., Friday; loss slß,oop. The Union Passenger Railway depot at Atchison, Kansas; loss, $125,000. Twenty bouses at Louisa Court House, Va. ■; J B. S. Helland, of Bachelor’s Grove, DajfhW was frozen to death in the sHpoqof Monday night. He had' gone to Lbuisiana, two miles distant, to pro-;' cure medicine for his sick wife, an<‘ lost while returning on foot. J. Hal Reid, convicted of outraging an actress in the company he was a mem- “ ber otiu West St. Paul last autumn,has

been sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years. Reid’s family are highly respected residents of Minneapolis. General Washington Seawell, died at San Francisco Monday. He participated fn several Indian wars as well as the war of the rebellion. He was the,oldest general but one on the retired list, He bad accumulated a large fortune. Three children of Isaac Parnell, living at Longwood, Fla., were burned to death, Thursday night. Their mother had left them to go to church, locking them into a room and giving them long pine splinters with which to light themselves to bed. From these£the fire started. - Dr. Clarkson, of Union county, lowa, says he dreamed thrice that he would make a discovery at a point near Afton. Going there, he dug up a corroded zinc plate 9x12 inches, containing a curious inscription. The Mormonß in the vicinity believe it to be the missing leaf of Smith’s Bible. s Dr. Clarkson is of the Bam e opinion.

• Miss Campbell, the somewhat aged daughter of an Ohio iron manmactnrer, recently brought suit against Arbuckle, one of the New York coffee merchants, for SIOO,OOO damages for breach of promise. The case has just been tried in New York, and on Tuesday a jury ~ brought in a verdict in the sum of $45,000 for the plaintiff. At Nashua, N. H., Moody, who was convicted of sedneing young girls and received a three-year sentence Thursday, is an old white-haired man, and has been prominent as a Salvation army leaders* The case of Joseph R. Fellows was next called. Fellows is an organist. After the testimony the case •was given to the jury, who found a —verdict of not gnilty. Fellows will be tried on other counts, charging similar Dfienses. These are only two out of

twenty-five citizens of Manchester charged with crimes against little girls. Nine of the men now indicted are about to be tried. They are among the best known of the town, and mostly married men. The developments have caused a great sensation. The county solicitor, in his opening speech, revealed a terrible state of affairs, and the developments during the trial are expected to furnish a number of sensations.

The Public Debt Adjustment and Loan Company has been organised in New York, with ex-Governor Cornell at its head. It is proposed, to take hold of the adjustment of a number of repudiated State debts, and under a corporate syndicate, with perfect guarantees of good faith and ability, with sufficient capital to cover all expenses incurred, and with a business-like management by expert lawyers, to secure either a refunding or a cash payment of such obligations.

The nine Republican members of the Ohio Benate who joined with the Democrats to effect an organization of that body, and who bolted the caucus nominees, claiming there was a previous combination and caucus on the part of thirteen members (o fill the positions Thursday afternoon issued a manifesto to the public, in which they proceed at once to justify their course, and giv. the history of what they claim was the conspiracy of the thirteen members to appropriate all the offices in the gift of the Senate. The House adopted a resolution protesting against the confirmation of Lamar as an Associate Justice. The Democratic Senators offered a protest against the resolution,which was adopted by that body Thursday, thanking Governor Foraker for his prompt action on the rebel flag order of the President.

COKKION. The printers of Quebec are on a strike and threaten violence if their demand for an increase of wages is not complied with. Reports from Austria show this to be one the severest winters for years. There have been many deaths from exposure. An American vessel, wrecked near Waterford, Ireland, Wednesday, was the Alfred D. Snow, from San Francisco. All on board were lost. Pope Leo again said mass, Thursday, at St. Peter’s, for the benefit of the pilgrims remaining in Rome. There were 20,000 people in the congregation. The efforts of the turf dealers in Ireland to boycott the police will result disastrously to them, for the police will simply take what they want for their use. The French embassy at Constantinople has received reports from Jeddah of a rising against the Christians. It is said that the French consul there has been killed.

According to a private dispatch from port to an alarming extent,the number of oases daily reaching ISO, of which thirty to ninety prove fatal. Timothy Harrington, M. P., and Mr. Corcoran were sentenced Monday, the former to six months’ and the latter to two months’ imprisonment for publishing reports of prohibited meetings of the Irish National League. '/AfVicesfrom Berlin and Vienna show Tl'i. bJiffairs no longer war will not likely break out now or in the spring. A partyof landless crofters, numbering about 1,000, drove the sheep from the farms in the Aiguish district of Scotland, Monday, claiming the land for their own use. They were met by the police and a desperate fight ensued, which, .until the constables were reinforced by troops, was waged in favor of the crofters. The latter were finally driven off, though not until a considerable number had been wounded on botk sides.

A private letter from Bschuanaland, Africa, brings details of the frightful massacre of natives by order of the king, brief mention of which.,was made in a cable dispatch ajfew weeks ago. The letter says that Mr. Fred Leton, a celebrated hunter, with a party es friends, including Mr. W. Jamieson, of Dublin, and Captain Fountain, who were on ahunting expedition in KingLo Bengulo’s territory, were away in Mashonaland after big game, accompanied by a body-guard of 150 Matabele warriors, in charge of an Induna or chief. Their duty was, while ostensibly acting as guards, to watch the white hunters and prevent their leaving the hunting grounds to prospect for fold. The latter attraction, however, was too great to be missed, the entile party finally deviated from the hunting grounds toward the northern gold fields, prospecting by the way. The chief was as much infatuated as hiß followers with the Bearch, and one of them, believing that his own life was in danger, returned and informed King Lo Bengulo. The monarch immediately dispatched a regiment, which overtook the party, and the native Colonel announced that one and all had been condemned to death, the execution to take place on the spot. All the victims, to the number of 150, submitted without a murmur, the mode of execution being two spear throats and a blow from a knohberrie./ The bodies were left for

the vultures, while the English hunters were conducted back te camp and cautioned that the next time they went prospecting their banting privileges wonld be withdrawn.