Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Goal Is flO a ton at Reading, Pa. r The New England milk producers have formed a trust. Cattle and crops were badlr damaged by tne recent snow storm in Texas. The Catholic clergy in Pottsville, Pa., are antagonizing the miners* strike. The Holyoke (Mass.) Envelope Co.’s mill burned, Sunday. Loss, 1325,000. Springfield, 111., had a sleighing Carnival, Saturday, and a Jolly time it was. Farmers on the Union Pacific railroad are plundering coal cars, being destitute of fuel. There are 1,282 horses entered for the Washington Park (Chicago) races for this year. There is a prospect that tbe rich iron deposits east of Charleston. 111., wiil soon be developed. Governor Semple has signed the bill giving the ballot to the women ol Washington Territory. . Carnegie, Phipps <k Co.,have amicably settled the. wages question with the Amalgamated Association. The doors of the First National Bank of Auburn, N. Y., were closed, Monday morning. Liabilities not known. Deep snow has broken up logging in Wisconsin and threatens to open Mackinaw Straits earier than ever knot r n. An old boarding house at St. Paul, Minn., was burned Saturday night and nine of the inmates perished in the flames.

President Corbin declares that the employes who struck on the Readirgrailwill taken back under any circumstances. Boston harbor was frozen over Monday. In many places in New Hampshire the temperature was 35 degrees below zero. Pizarro, an imported stallion, owned by Milton Young, of Lexington, Ky., died Wednesday night. He was valued at |15,000. M. A E Solomon (tobacco), of New York, have assigned with f 61,392 prefsraucs?. Lia. bilit ie5,5350,000; assets much larger. - ? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed Philadelphia’s right to tax telegraph poles $1 each and wire $2.50 per mile annually. Sand-baggers and burglars are at present infesting Chicago. Hardly a night passes but brutal “ assaults and daring robberies are reported. P. T. Barnum says that the action of the railro ids in fixing rates for circuses will drive him to Europe, where he can travel at reasonable rates.

Reports from the Northwest up to the 21st give the number of dead as a result of the blizzard at 235, and the extreme cold weather still prevails. Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, - and Tommy Miller, the Omaha Bantam,met at Minneapolis Monday night, the latter being knocked out in seven rounds. Seven persons were drowned Wednesday while skating on Sand Lake, near Ennis, Tex.—four daughters and a son of Wm. Williams, and Mis. Babbitt. Grandma Garfield, the mother of the late President James A. Garfield, died at 5 o’clock Saturday morning at the home of Mrs. Garfield, in Mentor, Ohio. Sam Jones, the revivalist, spoke “to men only” at Kansas City Sunday. The attendance was 6,000, and the collection for Jones’ personal benefit amounted to thirty-five handled dollars. The first response to the appeal of the National League to 1,000 Irishmen to contribute each was received at Lincoln, Neb., Monday, from E. B. Hayes, Ottawa, Canada. Cleveland’s friends captured the P« nnsylvania Democratic State Committee and passed resolutions indorsing the President’s message. Elliott P. Keener, of Luzerne county, was bhosen chairman. A jury in Bt. Louis has given J. J. McGarry, Judge Advocate District Assembly 101, K. of L., a . verdict of $1,500 agaimit the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for causing his arrest in the strike or 1886.

Finley D. Brown, a prominent Chicago Board of 'l'fade man, and a Sun-day-school teacher, it is said, being surprised at a game of poker Saturday night, jumped from the third floor of the Century club and bioke a leg. The Hatfield-McCoy feud in Western Virginia and Kentucky still continues. On Saturday Will Dempsey, of the Hatfield gang, was killed, and his associates threaten to burn the town of Pikeville and all the inhabitants. A St. Paul paper figures out a list of 217 deaths by the blizzard,and adds that the remains of many people who are reported missing may not be found until the snow melts in the spring, the bodies being covered by deep drifts that formed over them. The boiler of the tug Zouave exploded in New York harbor Sunday. J >hn Connolly, the engineer; Patrick Healy and John McKenney, firemen, and Bordnord Roon.ey, the steward, were all shockingly scalded, most of them fatally, probably. Michael Lynch, the ex-convict who shot and killed Policeman Holloran, of Chicago, the officer whose testimony sent him to the t penit entiary for was Saturday adjudged guilty of murder, and the punishment was fixed at thirty* five years hard labor in Joliet prison; The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rsiiroad Company has decided to buy 100,COO bushels of wheat and ship it to

Western Kansas for spring seed. The company will charge nothing for transportation, and sell it at coat, taking notes from the farmers, due in one year, at 3 per cent. _• One of the most destructive conflagrations that ever visited Philadelphia occured Monday. The fire caught in Marks Brothers millinery establishment at Arch and Eighth streets, and extended north and east until eight large flrnis had been burned out. The, loss will aggregate $1,500,000. A fight for the western light-weight championship took place at North Judson, Ind., Tnursday, between Harry Qimore, of St. Paul, and Billy Myers, of Streator, 111. It turned out to be the shortest fight on record, as Myers knocked Gilmore out with a blow on the neck in the first round. Time, twenty-eight seconds. Ope of the latest ripples on the political chess-board for 1888 is the resolution introduced by a Methodist Episcopal minister at a meeting of the ministers ofthatthurch in Baltimore, censuring President Cleveland for sending to Pope Leo XT!!, a copy of the Constitution of the United States. The resolution says: “Roman Catholicism, as an issue, has been projected into the political arena to the great detriment of the religious and political harmony of the country.”

roKziUN.; The new German military bill will require an expenditure of 243,000,000 marks. The reports of Frederick William’s health are conflicting, but the latest is favorable. The Norwegian bark Fradis, Captain Lordis, was sunk off Ireland in collision with the British steamer Toronto. Thirteen men were drowned. Advices from China, Friday, say that whi’e 4,000 workmen were engaged in constructing a breakwater to stem the floods of the Hoang-Ho river, a sudden rush of water engulfed them, and only a few escaped from drowning. Telegrams received from all parts of the Canadian Northwest report that wheat is down 10 cents a bushel below the prices ruling in the markets on the American side nf the line, The loss is having a serious effect on the Canadian Northwest, and is du a almost entirely to the refusal of the Dominion authorities to allow re-entry certificates for wheat sent over American roads to Canadian and eastern points. The restriction of shipments has had the effect of confining the farmers practically to the home markets.

A highly inflamed feeling exists in France over a slight trouble in Florence, Italy. The police of that city searched the French Consulate for papers con nected with a lawsuit. It was reported that the Mayor of the town had intimated his intention of removing the seals of the consulate. M. Flourens has requested Count De Mouy to inform Signor Cripi that if such an act of violence is oommitted the French Government will hold Italy responsible. M. Flourens, Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a very friendly interview with Count Minabres, Italian Embassador, Thursday, and an early settlement of ’the differences arising out of the episode is considered certain.

Kilrush, Ireland,was illuminated Sunday evening, and the streets were crowded with people. The Government proclamation, prohibiting the meeting announced to be held there Sunday, was publicly burned. All bonfires and blazing tar-barrels were extinguished by tbe police. There was a conflict at Kelkee between the police and the people, and one policeman was severely injured. Mr. O’Brien, who is almost prostrated with emotion, intends toattend the banquet given in his honor by his electors, and then to rest for a few weeks, in accordance with his doctor’s advice. In spite of the endeavor to prevent his whereabouts from being known generally, every mail brings him many congratulatory letters. He is residing with a friend in Dublin. An attempt was made Sunday night to sernade Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, who is confined in tbe prison at Galway. The police interlerred and ordered the musicians away. The latter thereupon embarked in boats and held a torch light procession on the river, beneath the walls ot the prison; Seamen from the warship Benterer gave chase* but failed to capture the serenade™. General enthusiasm bas been caused by William O’Brien’s- release fronn Tuliamore jail, Sunday night bonfires and beacon-lights i luminated large districts in the south of Ireland.