Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A sorghum trust is the latest Mrs. Beecher is going to Florida. Michigan’s partial prohibition laws are'constitutional. A new gas well at Findlay, 0., flows 8.000,000 feet a day. A family of seven as Sidney, 0., are sick from triehinaasis. Colorado has been proved to be a good tobbacco growing State. Sutter Creek. Cal., lost the large part of business placer Thursday. Loss SIOO,OOO. One of the most severe snowstorm ever known occurred in northern Michi* gan last week. There is general dissadisfaction in Louisania sugar localities over the proposed tariff bill. *•' Seven hundred- painters struck at Pittsburg Saturday lor dine hours work at ten hours pay. The New York Court of Appeals has decided that a bequest for masses for one’s soul is invalid. Amos Bronson Alcott, founder of the famous Concord School of Philosophy, died in Boston, Sunday. A fire, Thursday noon, in New York destroyed several factories on Lexington avenue at a loss of $1,000,000. The ghost of a murdered man has induced a religious revival among the inmates of the Birmingham (Ala.) jail. Alaysius Fayout has been given a verdict for $27,000 against the Boston and Albany railroad for personal damages. Jack Ravelin, of Boston, knocked out Johnny Farrell, of New York, Thursday, in seven rounds. They were light weights. All the saloons in Kansas City, Mo., were closed Sunday under the new law and efforts of the Law and Order League.

Horace Murphy, of Kalamazoo,Mich., aseaulled hie 8 year-old cousin,, and has been sent to the penitentiary to serve a fifty-year sentence. . The Mississippi legislature has passed a constitutional amendment limiting the Governor’s term to four years without right of succession. All employes in the Federal building at New York have had their salaries cut 20 per cent., and some will be discharged, for lack of appropriated funds. The Missouri deat and dumb asylum at Fulton, Mo., was burned, Tuesday morning. Tne building was a massive structure, costing the State over half a million dollars. Tbe&urnace men of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys will bank their fires unless railroad -freight rates are reduced. They say they cannot compete with the.Bouth.

Mrs. Maria Woodworth, the trance evangel'st, is at Chambersburg, Pa., and has worked up a great opposition on the part of the preachers, especially the Catholic priests. The indictments against Mrs. Emma Molloy, at Ozark, Mo., charged with being accessory before and after the fact of the murder of Sarah Grafiam, have been nolle prosequied. Booth and Barrett opened at San Francisco, Monday. Senator Fair has engaged the entire theater for one evening for an exclusive theater party. He paid fl 2,500 for the same. Government receipts during February aggregated $31,151,981, ■ a million and a half more than in February, 1887, while expenditures were but $9,898,468. or five and a half million less than in February, 1887.

A fire in New York on the Ist. caused damage as follows: Pattier & Styrnus, furniture, $175,000; Powell, Weneyman & Smith, cigar makers, $300,000; W. H. Estell, furfiiture,sso,ooo, and Armstrong, carpenter, $20,000. The Ohio Legislature has passed a township local option bill,which is a law, and the lower branch passed a bill providing for scientific temperance instruc; tion in the schools and other public institutions of the Street. Mrs. Judge Terry, of San Francisco, who, according to the decision of the California Shpreme Court, was declared legally married to the late United States Senator Sharon, thinks her share of the estate will be $20,000,000. The Union Square theater,New York, with all its contents, was <lestroyed by fire on the 28th. The damage will amount to over $300,000. The Morton House adjoining was btidly damaged. Several firemen were injured. At Culpepper, Va., Thursday, Edwin Barbour, eon of Hon. James Barbour, shot and killed Ellis Williams. The shooting grew out of a newspaper controversy. Barbour is a nephew of United States Senator-elect Barbour.

The venerable banker, Valentine Winters, of Dayton, 0., at a family dinner, Thursday, distributed a half million dollars of his estate among his children and the heirs of two others. In theyear 1882 he gave them four hundred thousand. A cyclone struck Newton, Kansas, Thursday afternoon, and though lasting but a few minutes, did much serious damage. The total damage to property is estimated at (50,000. Two person* were killed, and many Others more or. less seriously injured. Oscar F. Beckwith was hanged at Hudson, N. Y., Thursday morning foi —the murder of Simon VAttdef cook ~aT Austerlitz, on the 10th of January, 1882 This case has become celebrated from the fact that the condemned man had

been sentenced to death six times. He had two triads and his case had been twice passed upon by the general term of the Sup'reme Court and Court of Appeals, and finally application was made to the Governor for executive clemency,which Was denied.

Homer Hart and Oliver A. Hart (father and.son) residing near Mt. Pleasant, Mich., have been arrested ou the charge of criminally assaulting Jesse Hart, the five-year-old daughter of Oliver. The case is unprecedented in the criminal annals of the country.

There is a big breach in the strike in the Lehigh region. Many assemblies of K.of L. have notified the strikers to return to work. The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company have ordered the mules back to their mines, and by next week 20,000 strikers will beat work. A train robbery was perpetrated on the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railroad near Pine Bluff, Ark., on the 29th ult. The robbers took possession of the train and compelled the express messenger to open the safe, the contents of Which they carried away, but the amount is unknown. Pete McCartney, the “king 'of counterfeiters,” released from the Michigan City prison only a few months ago after serving an eleven years’sentence, and who intended to settle down on his farm in Illinois and lead an honest life, has been arrested at New Orleans for some of his old practices. The wife of James McElmore, living et Texarkana, Tex., has given birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. The couple have been married only three years, and this isthe third set of triplets that has beeu born during that time, and all alive. The McElmore settlement is indifferent to an immigration movement.

Four colored men were [drowned at Oldtown creek, Mississippi, last week. The first to lose his life was one who attempted to ford the stream a week ago Wednesday, and was drowned. On Sunday 300 negroes were searching for his body, when a canoe containing six of them was capsized and three of its occupants were drowned. The Hondo bridge, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, gave way Thursday, while a freight train was crossing, precipitating the cabaose and a couple of cars of live stock into the river. Captain E heridge, the owner of the live stock, was instantly killed, as was also Robert Hardesty, a brakeman. Conductor Davidson and Lem Hall, a brakeman, were fatally injured.

George Perry, a Kansas City restaurant keeper, who died, Saturday night, turns out to have been J. J. Pendergast, defaulting cashier of the Citizen’s National Bank, Springfield. As Perry he paidep all his shortage?, lived a blameless life, was admired by many friends and regarded as a philantrophist. John Roxy, a striking engineer was shot and killed at Brookfield Mo., Saturday by George H. Bostick, the Burlington bridge foreman who claimed to be a sworn deputy sheriff in charge of an engine. He alleges that Roxy and others endeavored to take charge of thn engine An altercation ensued and’Roxy drew a pistol and refusing to put it up Bostick shot him. Bostick claimed he and Roxy were warm personal friends. It is believed Bostick shot without sufficient provocation. Great excitement prevailed.

A bloody tragedy was enacted at a settlement known as Spanish Camp, about sixty miles west of Houston, Tex. Spanish Camp is composed of Mexicans, negroes and desperate whites, and is remote from railroads and telegraph lines, and od this account only meager reports of the facts are obtainable. On Sunday morning, about two o’c’ock, a negro cabin was set on fire and the occupants brutally shot down as they ran, half awake, from the burning bouse. Five were killed outright, one severely wounded and two others consumed in the burning dwelling. In the same neighborhood, the dead body of a negro named William Battle was found hanging to a tree, and it isThought that he was hanged on the same night the Other negroes were shot or burned. The affair is said to be the outcome of a suit over the title of the land where the negroes lived, and which they had purchased. The suit was decided in favor of the negroes at the last term of the District Court in Wharton. So far as heard from no arrests have been made, although the sheriff and a po’se are on the ground. ~ rOBEIGM. A sarcophagus containing the body of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Saida. A comet, now visible in South Africa, will be visible in our southeastern horizon in about two weeks. Bulgaria has informed the Porte that she will reject all proposals interfering with tbe present state of things. The House of Commons has voted $32,500 to pay the expenses of Joseph Chamberlain, the Fisheries Commissioner. Tbe French schooner Fleur de la Mer foundered, Friday, off the Island of Cayenne. Sixty passengers were drowned. : —— .................. The negotiations between the Vatican and Russia have proved fruitless. Russia demanded impossible concessiors, stipulating that Catholic bishops throughout Russia shou d be appointed by the Czar; that the Russian language should be exclusively used in Catholic churches

in Russia, both in preaching and catechising; and that the offspring of the mixed marriages should be educated in. the orthodox Russian church. -