Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Simon Cameron was 89 on the 8th. Mrs. and Mollie Garfield arrived at New York, Wednesday, from London. Reilly’s leather factory, in Newark N. J., burned on the 8th. Loss $100,000. Rev. Dr. Talmage writes to. Miss Susan B. Anthony that he ‘has always been in favorof the suffrage for women.” The Sunday Herald says that a leading New York Life Insurance Company declined to issue a policy on President Cleveland. Miss Sallie Obier has been found dead at Yuton, Ky., with sixty-three bullet holes in her body. No cause is known for the murder. Mgr. Ducey, a priminent [prominent] Catholic divine, pastor of St. Leo's Church, New York, has been snpended [suspended] by Archbishop Corrigan on account of his friendship for Dr. McGlynn. The proposition made by H. E. Meade, of Dayton, O., to buy the entire product of all mills in the Western Paper Association, valued at from $3,000,000 to $5 000,000, has been rejected. The Methodist University at Milchell, Dakota, was burned on the morning of the 9th, and ten persons perished in the flames. There were forty inmates, some of whom escaped by jumping from windows. Thomas Potter, General Manager of he Union Pacific railroad, died at Washington, Friday, a victim of overwork. He rose from the ranks to the responsible position of general manager of a great railroad. In a card to the public the Brotherhood announce their willingness to arbitrate their differences with the Burlington road and to submit the questions in dispute to three railroad managers, and abide by their decision. A notable event in the history of the University of Michigan is the election of Dr. Hattie Allen, of Waterloo, Ia., to fill the place of assistant professor of medicine in that institution. She is the first woman ever chosen to a post of this nature in a Western university. Charles F. Blacbaurn, slop superintendent at Maddux, Hobart & Co.’s distillery, at Cincinnati, was found dead, Friday, in a slop vat half filled with hot slop. He lost his footing and fell into the scalding contents. Leaving the vat uncovered was his own negligence. One of the outbuildings connected with the Williamson county, Tennessee poor-house, caught fire, Friday, and the flames spread so rapidly that William Johnson and Dora Shannon, colored inmates, were burned to death. It is supposed that Johnson, who was crazy, set the building on fire, as he had on another occasion attempted to burn the house. Sheriff Genne, of Shoals, Ind., and Sheriff Burrel went to Springerton, Ill., Tuesday and arrested Dr. J. W. Stone, who is charged, on the confession of Albert Quackenbush, with complicity in the assassination of Jackson Ballard a Union soldier, who was hunting for a man named Anderson, a deserter. The deed was committed in March, 1864,and,

according to Quackenbush’s confesson, [confession], he and Stone were detailed by the Knights of the Golden Circle to make way with Ballard in order to protect Anderson, who was also a brother in the lodge. The murder was committed, and Quackenbush further stated that a plot was laid to murder all officers serving papers on drafted soldiers. Several prominent Indiana people who were charged by Quackonbush with complicity in the murder have already been indicted. Dr. Stone is well known and highly respected in this county, where he has lived for fourteen years. During this time he has practiced medicine and preached at intervals for the Christian Church, but more recently has connected himself with the church of the Latter Day Saints. In 1885 he was the Greenback nominee of this district for State Senator. He disclaims any connection with the crime, and says that when [it] was committed he was holding a meeting at the residences of David Emmons, in Martin county.

FOREIGN. It is asserted upon “absolute and direct” authority that Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone will visit America next fall, accompanied by his son Herbert and Sir Lyon Playfair. The imperial commissioner who was especially appointed to investigate the loss of life in the Yellow river inundation, sends an unofficial report to the Emperor of China that the total number of persons drowned is over one hundred thousand, and the number destitute 1,800,000, apart from those the floods have driven into other districts. Some months ago George W. Butterfield went to London from San Francisco to sell May Lunday and other mining properties in the Homer district, California. A company was formed, with a capital of £1,000,000, to buy the property. The Financial News attacked the scheme, and only £3,000 out of the £1,000,000 wanted was subscribed by the public. The attacks upon the company having been continued, Mr. Butterfield has brought a libel suit against the Financial News, and Mr. Marks, the editor of that paper, claiming £1,000,000 damages.