Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Joseph W. Drex*l, the New York banker, died on the 25th. William Halford, the well-known manufacturer of .Halford eanoe, is dead. Owing to persistent prosecution every iquor saloon in Concord, N. H., is closed. A flood as great as that of 1832 is expected along the Missouri River this spring. The relief fund for sufferers of the Mt. Vernon (Ill.) hurricane amounts to « 100,000. * Senator Gorman, oi Maryland, is sup posed to be cultivating a small Presidential boom. Mrs. Richard W. Thompson, wife es ex-secretary of the navy, died at Terre Haute, Ind., on the 25th. The Btate of Pennsylvania is suing ' the Pennsylvania Muttfkl Life Insurance Company for $308,000 back taxes. There is a general movement pending in Eastern Pennsylvania to reduce the wages of iron employes 5 to 10 per cent. Under the influence of ihe Supreme Court decision, Bell telephone stock advanced from 185@220 to 260 Monday. Two New York pilot boats, with fourteen men—the Enchantress and Phantom—have been missing since the great storm.

A train struck a carriage containing Margeret and Annie O’Riley at Waterford, Conn., Sunday, killling them both almost instantly. Great floods, doing much damage to railroad property, were reported on the 20th from Mercer, Neb., Billings Mont and Mason City, lowa. Prohibitionist Green Clay Smith will run for Congress against the present incumbent, Hon. James B McCleary, in the Eighth Kentucky District. An impression is growing that Auditor Hewitt, of Kentucky, needs invest grting. It is charged that he was ergaged in speculations with Treasurer Tate. The friends of Gen. Hancock have succeeded in purchasing in Washington a fine residence property, which they will present to his widow about Aoril Ist. A hurricane of great magnitude visited Atlanta, Georgia, on the 22d, unroofing buildings and doing much other damage. Several fatalities are reported. The Marine Band gave a concert at Philadelnhia, Saturday night, and at its close serenaded G sorge W. Childs, the first time it ever honored a private citizen.

An axle of a ear in a Pennsylvania freight train broke at Barre, Pa., Thursday,causing a bad wreck, killing a tramp and two unknown boys, and fatally injuring a brakerr an. A number of German citizens of Portland, Ore., have subscribed a fund of a thousand dollars to purchase singing birds in Germany, to be turned loose in that city and vicinity. Jeff. Curry, a negro working near Birmingham, Ala-, who had been arrested for carrying concealed weapons, was taken from the officers by a mob and riddled with bullets. From Northern Michigan come reports of the recent snow-fall, showing that the blockade is one of the worst in recent years. • Trains are badly delayed, but no one has been frozen. Up to date, the great strike on the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy has cost the company $1,05 i,203. A loss of $300,204 has fallen upon the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. It has been agreed in New York State that ex-Senator Raines will present the name of Cleveland to the National Convention. Senator Raines is considered the silver-tongued orator of the Empire State.

John T. Hoffman, Governor of Ne £ York from SB6B to 1872, died on the 26rh, .while on a visit to Wiesbaden, Germany. He had held many positions of honor in his State, and was never defeated for any position he sought. jiff n n eßC ab, Ki"grhan'counly,”Kahsap, was almost completely destroyed by a tornado on the 26th. Only three houses in the place were left standing. Three person? were killed and seventeen others maimed. In the First District Court at Provo, Utah, Saturday, sixteen Mormons were sentenced for living with more than one wife, contrary to the provisions of the Edmunds law. The most of them were given six months in the penitentiary and fined ]3OO. At a meeting presided over by Gen. Ciinton B. Fisk in New York, Sunday night, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster said she regarded high license as worthy of encouragement only as a step toward prohibition, which had worked so well in lowa that fifty-nine county jails were empty. All the switchmen on the C., B. A Q. system went out on a strike, Saturday morning, and the brakemen are expected to follow suit. The move is undoubtedly made to help the engineers. The cause assigned is that many of the new engineers employed are incompetent and too much danger attends working with them. A general tie up of building operations is threatened in Chicago. Mill 'men are worken ten hour? a day, and in consequence their managers can take work away from contracting carpenters, whose employes work fyut eight hours a day. The mill owners will be asked to make their day eight hours, and thirtyfive cents an honr demanded for all employes. y

Michael O’Shea, of Chicago, one of the “Q - ’ strikers, was put under |S,I’(X) bonds, Wednesday, to answer the charge of malicious mischief. He dropped a huge rock from a viaduct on the cab of a Burlington engine passing beneath him. The; stone broke through the roof of the cab, but did not injure the engineer or fireman. The stone missed the engineer by only a few inches and was heavy enough to have instantly killed him. Mr. J. Z. Weist, represents g the Chicago Board of Trade, has returned from a tour of inspection of the growing wheat of Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas, and has issued a circular embodying the conclusions at which he has arrived. In the circular he says the crop is “badly injured,” and doubts if, under the most favorable conditions during the remainder of the season, the yield can possibly equal the average of the past five years. Alexander Arnold, alias “Old Aleck,” one of the worst horse thieves the West has yet produced, has been released from his fifth term at Joliet. Aleck has also served terms in the penitentiaries of Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri,and is now wanted at Champaign, 111., and Terre Haute, Ind., on an old charge. Soma years ago he got away with two of the most valuable race-horses owned in Kentucky, and during the last thirty years he bas probably stolen {over 300 horses.

John Dold & Son will champion the cause of Kansas City packers, accused by William G. Burtie, of St. Louis, before the house committee of rgriculture Saturday of packing cholera hogs. They refute the charge as a base and slanderous falsehood. They will at once proceed to have him indicted for perjury, and bring suit for $60,000 damages, based upon the possibility of tudr being damaged to the extent of at least 10 per cent, on their business of the Kansas Citv establishment alone. Sunday, at Findlay, Ohio, Hudson Chaplin was arraigned on a charge of bigamy and pleaded guilty. A special; grand jury will be impaneled to fiftd a bill against him. so that his case can be disposed of at this term of court. Following is the list of the women whom, under various aliases, Chaplin is charged with marrying: Miss Cora Carson, Greenville, Ind.; Miss Nellie Webster, living in a small village in southern Illinois; Miss Clara Jones, Fresno, Cal.; Miss Carrie E. Blank, Osage, Ill.; Mrs. Bnell, Bowling Green, Ky.; Miss Flora Freyberger, Bowling Green, O. In addition he married a wealthy woman of Columbns, O. and a planter’s widow living in Baton Rogue, La. From most of these women he obtained sums of money ranging from slt)s to $3,000.

rofusion. A freight train and snow-plow collided near Grovenhurst, Ont., Thursday, killing George Wilson, road master, and four employes. Three others were dangerously injured. Suffering among the people in the rural districts of Spain, owing to severe weather, are reported. Many peasants perished in the snow, and cattle and sheep were lost in drifts. The late Emperor’s will shown that his total savings do not exceed, $12,50C,000. The larger portion of tfie property is left to increase the crown treasurer general fund of the crown established by his father. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking at White Chapel, said it was useless to think of returning to a protective policy. “We must look,” he said, “to, an extension of English markets for the betteiing of our business.” The situation throughout Hungary is appalling, owing to the floods. The dykes at Bakes are rapidly giving way, and the town is doomed, Fifty more houses have collapsed since the reports, and many move are rained. At Zem-jdfitU-Jthfl- floating.Jca-Jhaa destroyed. many houses, and all the country Btores of com and food are lost. Ms. William O’Brien addressed the tenants of the Ponsonby estate, at Doughs], Ireland, early Sunday morning, and attempted to organize a meeting which the government, by proclamation, had forbidden to be held. Subsequently he mounted a ear and began a speech to the assembled crowd, but the police dragged him down and charged upon the people with drawn batons. A serious meiee ensued, during which several were wounded on both sides. It is alleged that many of the police were stabbed. Captain Plunkett, in charge of the police, was thrown down and severely beaten and cut about the head. Mr. escaped to the house of a priest, and later harangued a crowd in a t table.