Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A five-foot vein of coal baa been found ne*A Haven, 111. Auditor Hewitt says Treasurer Tate’s shortage will be $204,Q00. Gen. Charies A. Stetson, proprietor of the Astor House, New York, died on the 29 tb. The Northwestern Railroader states the loss by the rate war just closed to be 115,000,000. The Henry George single-tax advocateswill hold a national convention in Chicago, J uly 4. Four hundred Cincinnati printers struck, Monday, for eight hours and an increase of twenty per cent, in wages. The hog crop for the packing season, ending March 1, is estimated at 5,900,000, against 6,439,009 the urevious year. Three little children of T. 6. Richardson, living near Mscm, Mo., were burned, to death Friday; during the absence of their parents from home. ' Chairman Dickie/ of the National Prohibition Committee, says .the party is organised in every State of the Union except Louisiana, and proposes to run State tickets. Rev. Clayton Mnmma, of Reading, Pa., and Rev. John Connard, of Denver, Lancester county, Pennsylvan’a, were struck by a passenger train Sunday afteinoon and killed. It has been discovered that a wholesale series of robberies have been committed in La Harpe, 111., by four young girls from ten to thirteen, daughters of respectable parents. The New York Assembly Friday passed the Crosby high-license bill by a vote of 66 to 61, almost on strict party tines, the Republicans for and the Democrats against. It now goes to the Senate. Exposure to the blizzard resulted in New York in the death of Charles N. Brackett, aged fifty-six. who was Chief of the Government Secret Service under Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. August Hetzke, who was .sentenced to hang in Chicago for beating his stepson to death with a strap, was given a new trial Friday. He at once pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Ex-Lieutenant Governor William Dorsheimer; of New York, died at Savannah, Georgia, on the 27th, whither he had gone on a visit, of pneumonia. He was an ex-member of Congress, also, and an attorney of distinguished ability. The family, relatives and near friends of Mr. Blaine deny that he is in illhealth. They assert that Mr. Blaine is in perfect health, vigorous in body and mind, and that all statements to the contrary are part of a plan to continually traduce him. W. A. Boyd, ex-inspector of customs at Sm Francisco, has confessed in court the details of a conspiracy among government officials and others to return certificates to the old country by which Chinese could be admitted to this country in defiance of the law. The executive committee of the Min* nesota Farmers’ Alliance, comprising members of both political parties, adopted resolutions indorsing President Cleveland’s views on the tariff issue, denouncing the protective tariff, and calling tor its immediate repeal en all raw material and the necessaries of life. Judge Collins, of Chicago, says he will hear no more divorce cases on Saturday for the reason that “tbe Sunday newspapers, whieh are larger on that day than during the week, make a great spread on the cases heard on Saturday, and carry the disgraceful stories of domestic infelicity into Sabbath homes to mar tne sacred character of the day.” Harry Garfield and Miss Belle Mason, of Cleveland, have been engaged for a year, and will be married at the same time that Miss Mollie Garfield and J. Stanley Brown are united. In antic:pation of the double event, the old Garfield mansion at Mentor, Ohio, has been enlarged and improved at an outlay of $30,000. After the honeymoon Harry Garfield, with his brother James, will begin the practice of law in Cincinnati. t

FORKIQK. The Saltan of Zanzibar ia dead. Thouaanda of persons are dying of starvation in the inundated districts of Hungary. Prince Bismark and Emperor Frederick are in full accord on Garmany’s foreign policy. Edmund Dwyer Gray, a distinguished member of the Irish Parliamentary party, is dead. J The French cabinet resigned, Friday, the Chamber of Deputies voting urgency for the revision of the constitution in opposition to the government. Mies Ella Bussell, the American prima donna, made her first appearance at St. Petersburg, Tuesday night, in Traviata. She achieved a triumphant success. ' , The Russian Government has prohibited the operations pf the American Bible Society in the Baltic provinces, and will probably ultimately expel all of the British and American Bible Societies from Russia. On the proposal of the Minister of War, President Carnot, acting op. the unanimous advice of the officers who conducted the court martial, has signed

a decree placing General Boulanger on the retired list of the army. The proposal had previously been considered by the Council of Ministers! -i A mob of women in Constantinople, Wednesday; sought to obtain the arrears of pensions due their husbands from the Government, and beseiged the cfflce of the Minister of Finance. The Minister wa; secreted to escape the fury of the women- The mob almost killed a woman who was advising them to make their demand quietly.