Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mrs. Langtry ia sick. Brooklyn is threatened with a smallpox epilemic. Westerly, R. 1., was visited* by an 1150,000 fire on the 18th. It is costing the raihoada $1,500,000 to maintain the Northwestern rate war. A. 8. Btrnes, of A. b. Barnes & Co. the publishers of New York, ia dead. C ana Spreckles, the California sugar millionaire, will fight the Sugar Trust. A split in the Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly is inevitable along the line of Socialism. The steamer City of Pekin, which arrived at San Francisco on the 17th, had smallpox on board. Boston has increased the Jprice of liquor licenses 25 per cent. They range from S4OO to SI,OOO. Brosfield & Co, of Lexington, Ky., last week sold 266 head of horses at an average price of $334. F. D. Musaey, the correspondent, was granted a divorce, Saturday, from his wife.ex-Governor Foster’s daughter. Two students have been expelled from the Bible College at Lexington, Ky., for attending a theatrical performance. B. E. Hopkins, the Fidelity bank wrecker, is so ill at Cincinnati that he can not be removed to the penitentiary. The recent reported strike of oil at Carmel, 111., was a deliberate fraud, and is<said to have netted its projectors $30,000. The St. Albans (Vt.) hospital was burned, Monday night., Charles Chandler and Susan Gales perishing in the flames. The Nelson mine at Shamokin, Pa., has been shut down because the 6,000 employes refused to accept a ten per cent, reduction. Chicago City Council has passed the ordinance compelling gas companies to supply gas to all consumers for $1 per 1,000 cubic feet. The Chicago boodlers were taken to Joliet Friday. A rehearing was denied them by the Judge of the Appelate court Thursday. West Virginia coal operators have reduced wages to two and a half cents a bushel, and all but the Black Diamond men have struck, Thp Harper county (Kansas) countyseat war is raging with great violence, and two editors have been arrested for contempt of court. August Hetzke, of Chicago, charged with beating to death with a strap his little step-son, has been found guilty and sentenced to death. _ — F. D. Popart, the confidential clerk of Adolph Schrieber, Treasurer of the New Orleans Cotton(Exchange, is a defaulter for $23,000. Too much lottery. Captain W. F. Whitehouse, of the Schooner Albert Nichols, of Baltimore, was killed inran attempt to arrest an illegal oyster dredger in Chesapeake Bay. A letter is made public written by General Grant to Admiral Ammen, declining the American Presidency of the Panama Canal and characterizing the scheme as unsound. \ The Mississippi Senate has adopted the Hou,se bill to pay S3O yearly pension to officers, soldiers and sailors and their servants who served in the Confederate army from Mississippi and can not now labor. Brack Cornett, alias Captain Dick, the notorious Texas train robber, was killed near Pearsall, Monday, while resisting arrest. He led the gang of “rustlers” who got SIOO,OOO at Flatonia, in 1887. —The labor organizations of Louisville Friday night tried to induce the Democratic Committee to bring the CourierJournal and Times back into the Union fold, but the committee declined to interfere. Holders of bonds issued by the city of Houston, Tex., duringjthe reconstruction era and since repudiated, have petitioned Judge Pardee; of the United States Court, to apponit a race!ver for the city. The Chicago police have identified one of the burglars who killed Amos J. Snell, the millionaire, as Wm. Geb right, son of a respectable family, but an accomplished cracksr ian. He has not been apprehended. Friends of Metins* and Duckworth directors of the bi oken Cincinnati Metropolitan Bank, have just put up $250,000 to pay off tbeir indebtedness. The Department of J ustice will now be asked to extendm ercy. Amanda Gray, aged seventy years, was divorced from Wm. Gray, aged eighty-two years, at Hamilton, 0., Monday. They w ire married fifty-one years and had thirteen children. She was compelled tc leave him on account of cruelty. The miners’ strike on the Reading railroad ha > ended, the miners returning to work at the old rate, and the wages in the future to be fixed by arbitration. The railroaders who struck to help the miners out with their demands are left in the lurch. Tn > explosion of a boiler on Mrs. J. N. Harp’s plantation, Bastrop, 111., Fri lay, killed two white men, named Rrems and Johnson, and two colored nen whose names are not given. Four ■ther men were so badly scalded that they can not recover. Thursday afternoon a Chinese merchantin Mott street, New York, twentythree years of age, was married to a

pretty, golden-haired girl named Jennie Farrell, in the judge’s chamber of the City Court. Judge Pitshke tied the knot, and representatives of five nations were present at the ceremony. A mob from Duquoin, 111., visited Pickneyville, 111., early Tuesday morning, took *from the jail Alonzo Holly, colored, confined on the charge of raping a white woman in Duquoin, two months ago, and hanged him to a tree. There is no sympathy for the victim, as he was milty beyond doubt. An error has been discovered in the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, which, it is said, will open the prison doors throughout the State and liberate all prisoners committed since 1885. It is also said that all persons convicted since 1885 of all erimes, except murder will have a cause for action, and that £all decisions pertaining to the probate of wills, settlement of estates, etc., will become null and void. The burning of the Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser Block caused a loss of $250,ofio. Chas. Bently, a fireman, who was hurt by falling walls, is dying, and Wm. F. Naylor, of Bethel, Sullivan county, a student in the Commercial College, who Lad rooms in the building, is missing. It is pretty certain that he was burned to death. Bookkeeper Fitzpatrick, employed by the Robinson furniture house, is also reported as missing. A drunken carousal at Silver Brook, Pa , near Hazleton, Sunday night, resulted in the loss of six lives. The party had been to a Polish Catholic Church dedication and all got drunk. A lamp was overturned and the following were burned to death: John Ellis, aged twenty; John Seddo, twenty-five year..; John Kebini, thirty years, Michael YaKOvitch, thirty years; Paul Siskowitz; thirty years, and Maulick, aged sixteen years. Maulick and his wife and mfant child were also badly burned, and it is feared they will die. /bbott L. Kebler, of Cincinnati, brother of Charles Kebler, who recently eommitted suicide when the knowledge of his forgeries was about to develop, has followed by suicide. It happened Wednesday night at Fern Bank, a suburb of Cincinnati, down the Ohio River, at his residence. He used two revolvers. Holding one in each hand, and directing one to his brain and the other to his heart, fired simultaneously. No cause is known for the the deed except the disgrace of his brother Charles. He had a wife and a three-year-old daughter. The latter was ill at the time, and he had left business early Wednesday afternoon on that account. He had been employed for the last three years as secretary of the Cincinnati Banking Company.

FOREIIOH. Canada papers, as a rule, do not like the fisheries treaty. All Russian cavalry officers have been ordered to learn telegraphy. Forty miners were killed by an explosion in a German colliery Thursday. Shanghai advices state that two thousand persons have been killed by an earthquake in Nun Nan. - =- Mr. Pyne, M. P., was re-arrested at Kilmeethalas, after be had been admitted to bail pending the appeal from his recent conviction, and, in a riot that ensued while he was on the way to jail, he was struck on the head and badly injured. The anarchist Galls, who created a sensation in Paris last year by firing a pistol from the gallery of the Stock Exchange at the brokers below, and who was sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude, has been sentenced to death for attacking his guards at New Caledonia with a pick axe. In Parliament, Monday night, Home Secretary Matthews apologized to Mr. O’Brien for the unfortunate indignity that had been placed upon him by the police through mislake, but he maintained that Messrs; Pyne and Gillhooly had no grievance. A motion to refer to the committee on privileges was rejected. Louis N. Fleury, late postmaster at Paso del Norte, Mexico, vas arrested Friday on a charge of robbing the mails and smuggling into Mexico. He is charged with stealing two lots of diamonds passing through the mailfl from Hamburg, Germany, to the South of Mexico. One lot was valued at $25,000. There are also many other charges against him.