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

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Smallpox is epidemic at San Francisco. Nearly all the steel rail mills in the »untry are idle. Heavy snow in New Mexico has (topped traffic on the Atlantic A Pacific toad. ” • Six hundred miners struck Wednesday morning on the Baltimore A Ohio fiailroad, for the Columbus scale, j The church of the Redmen Unversa Ist, at Minneapolis, was destroyed by Ire on the 15th, causing a loss of SBO,JOO. 1 The Cigar-makers’ Union had won its Ight against the manufacturers of New fork, and the men returned to work Wednesday. j The forty-seven Arabs,who arrived at |few York several weekß ago, have been declared paupers by Collector Magone, .nd will be sent home. | After four days straggle over seats in [..he Louisiana Democratic Convention, "t was organised Friday and nominated Francis T. Nichols for Governor. | A fire in the office of the Advance and Vbor Leaf, a workingman’s paper, Detroit, Saturday, revealed the existence jf an organised secret military company. Howard Douglass, Supreme Chancelor of the World, Knights of Pythias, |as suspended the entire jurisdiction of jhe Grand Lodge of the State of Pennsylvania, for disobeyance of orders. Nineteen of the twenty-one reaper, «ower and bidder manufacturers in the -Jnited States succeeded, Friday evening, in organizing as a National Association, for “social purposes only.” Lewis ’Wilier, Of Akron, 0., is president.

j Mrs. Parmlee died of heart disease in I New York assignation house Sunday •fternoon. Her companion escaped' She was a woman of ,*ood reputation, living in Brooklyn,and |er husband is said to be on his death |ed,. |a There were 2,049,638 gross tons of tessemer steel rails produced in this buntr? last tear, 487,228 tons more than jp 1886. The new year does not open uspiciously for steel rail men. Many large orders are still withheld, and the Vorks which closed down in December fee still idle. 1 8. F. Tolsma, citizen of Michigan, has lomplained to Secretary Bayard that Canadian authorities illegally interfere iith his fishing in the St. Lawrence fiver. The questionlies on the position If the boundary line. Tolsma claims 180.000 damages. Bayard will ask Engrind to investigate. j Capt. W. L. Couch, of Okhahoma in- * Sion fame, said Friday: “There is no pith whatever in the stories»that a fege secret organization is being form- * ir. finntbam or anywhlre else Ir-tac-purpose ox ioPßtny entering Oklahoma, nor is a large quantity of rms being raised for resisting the army.” At the meeting of the Michigan Sta‘e ■jf >oard of Health, Tuesday, Professor aughn reported a successful experiment of producing in a cat a disease milar to typhoid fever in the human §mily, by the us i of the germs found in later used by 300 victims of the scourge & Iron Mountain, Mich. It is believed ■s be "the first discovery of this nature in ie world. [I The printers on the Louisville CourierImrnal struck, Friday, against the use ■ type setting machines. On Sunday, »e 15th, the proprietors notified the Jlintere that if they did not return to pork within a certain time their pestpns would he permanently filled. They |d-not return, and new men were .pot | everv case and permanently employed, |id the strikers are without prospect of Vrk. Friday night the shed attached to the bite of John M, Evertt, at Gardenerlie, N.Y., becomming unsafe by reason lithe snow on the roof, a rumber cf !hn undertook to brace it up, when it fddenly gave way, killing three and jnring seven. Those killed were |wie Wright, a carpenter and an old jsidenf of the neighborhood; John ithill and David K«lly. One or two tEpse Injured arenotlikely to recover.! (A great deal of distress is reported bm the country tributary tofit. Joseph, o.j, owing to the recent cold weather, it ween that city and the lowa line and ‘ Southern Nebraska and Northern uasas farmers are reporting great loss pive stock, which froze to death in the ,11s. Two stock trains that had been layed arrived at St. Joseph Friday |;ht with every head qf cattle dead, hst of the passenger trains are abanpned. The Missouri Pacific, between paha and Kansas City, is closed, and is the Burlington & Missouri River ad between St. Joseph and Denver. Sev. Thomas P. Byan, a noted Methot minister living in Roan County,

Va., was brutally the presence of hie family and at hie n home in October last. He had jpst urned from conference with some 0 and the purpose of the murder was dently robbery. Within two orthree '8 after that three young men—Eoband Georce Duff and Chester Coon irere brutally lynched for the murder, has been the prevailing opinion that t lynchers and murderers were the oe parties, and they lynched inndt men to cover their own crime, itatiopa by detectivea conflrm this ricion, - f ? l 1 . _LT7 yoKKian. Uphold lever is raging violently' in

the village of Iverie, Scotland,and many of the inhabitants have already died of the disease. The'Tories are determined that they will not resign their control of the English Government even in the face of a vote of want of confidence. The outlook of the opponents of the Ministry for return to power is very poor at present. Prnce Ferdinand, during a reception of the officers of the Sofia garrison,spoke energetically of the situation, and said that events might soon force Bulgaria to defend her rights. “You will then see,” continued Prince Ferdinand, “that I can die in defense of our country,” The Pope lately received several Irish bishops and priests, whom he questioned concerning the condition of Ireland. After hearing their replies the Pope exhorted them to use their influence to restore quiel and respect for the law in Ireland, and told them that the Irish people could not obtain what they asked by violence. A dispatch from Rome says that England will accept in principle the Pope’s mediation in regard to Ireland, based upon Mgr. Persico’s report. The Pope demands moderate home rule, and advises the Conservative to take the wind out ot Mr. Gladstone’s sails by adopting his programme with the support of the Irish clergy. Winfred Blunt, M. P. makes the astounding statement that Chief Secretary Ireland Balfour told-him of his intention to arrest and imprison Home-rulers physically unable to endure prison life, so that they would die off, and it has created widespread indignation and comment. Balfour denies making the statement.