Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Hon. Roacoe»Conkling is seriously tick. Jake Sharp, the New York convicted bocd er, is fatally ill. The miners at Bevier, Mo., have struck for higher wages. Rich dircoverii sos gold are reported from Southern California. A Free Trade Club of 250 workingmen has been forpaed at Braddock, Pa. The Greenback committee of Michigan favor union with the Democrats on the State ticket. Hon, T. G. Clemson, son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, died at Fort Hill, S. C., Monday. Mrs. Cleveland has been elected President of the Eastern Alumnae As ociation of Welles College. The lowa House Wednesday evening passed the bill limiting passenger fares to 2 cents per mile. Lillian Olcott, the actress, bestknown in the character of Theodora, died in New York, on the 9th. At Pittsburg the judges under the new law have granted 248 licenses where 1,000 existed previously. Kansas cropa are in good condition. The acreage planted is considerably in excess of that of last year. In a quarrel at Hempstead. Tex., Wednesday, R. 0- Chambers and 8. WAllicken killed each other. J. D, Allen & Bro., and cattle owners, Hartland, have failed. Their liabilities are SIOO,OOO. Lightning, Thursday, struck a bam at Sherman,Mich.,killing James Parsons, his little ehild and a Mrs. Yankee. It is rumored that Minister Phelps, who is on his way back from England, will not return to his station at London. Frederick Buhl, an old and wealthy resident of Detroit, it is said, has been confidenced out of SIO,OOO by bunko men. At Jackson, Mich., Wednesday, Prof. Hogan leaped from a balloon 1,000 feet in the air, with a parachute, and landed saf dy. Clarkson, Chicago’s great pitcher, has been released to Boston for SIO,OOO. He will receive a salary of $4,000 for the season. Brigadier General George Crook, the distinguished Indian fighter, has been promoted to Major General, and Gen. Terry retired. The Missouri municipal elections Tuesday were exciting, with many complete reversals. Honors are about equally divided, however. The lowa House has concurred in the Senate amendments to the bill making the railroad and warehouse'commissionere elective by the people. Vermont Republicans Wednesday chose delegates to the National Convention. Apparently Blaine, Depew and Sherman stand in that order. A fire at Amesburg, Mass., Friday, burned eight large factories, including the largest carriage factory in the world. Loss nearly $1,000,000. Claus Sprechs will bui!d a sugar refinery at Philadelphia, and operate it with $5,000,000 capital. It will have a daily output of 2,000,000 pounds. Andrew. Carnegie’s employes have rejected his offer of co-operative eliding wages seal-*, and he has ordered his whole plant shut down until Jan. 1, 1889. -* Reports from Southern Minnesota, Southeastern Dakota and Northern lowa state that washouts are numerous on the railroads, and much delay is experienced. The Rhode Island elsction Wednetday resulted in a complete victory for the Republicans, Tass being elected Governor by a majority of 1,989. The Legislature is )a»galy Republican. Rsports from Piatt county. Illinois, indicate that 25 pt r cent, of the early .-sown wheat and 75 per cent, oi the late sown wheat has been killed by frost. Much of the ground has baen plowed under. At the Mormon conference at Fait Lake City, Friday, Rudger Clawson, pardoned by the President, spoke, reiterating his continued belief in the Church of Mormon,including polygamy. Others spoke in the same strain. The town of Allegany, N. Y., was raided by burglars early on Saturday morning. A safe in the billiard parlor of Mr. McLean was forced and United States bonds, valuable papers, etc., to the value of sls 000 were taken. Ocher places were also raided ■ Wm. Morgo nitein threw away $7,000, and then attempted suicide by iumping into the Kaw river at Kansas City. He was picked up alive and confessed that he was a, dtfiulter to the extent of 26,000 thalers, to the house of Bernard, Rosenthal & Co., Vienna. The Supreme Court has decided the cesa of Powell vs. the State of Pennsylvania, suetfining the (onstitu ionaliry of the State law taxing oleomargarine, and thus indirectly sustaining the constitutionality of the oleomargarie tax iw parsed by Congress lait session. The CincinnatiPricaCu.-rent’s cam>7Bon of American hog packing for the past two season shows a shortage of 730,000 hogs by weight from the 1886-7 - Beason;* The actual number 517,828. The summer season of 1887 shows a decrease of 33,000 hogs from 1886. i At Sioux City, la., Thursday, during an electric storm, a cyclone passed over the town touching the ground in but

one spot, wrecking three building* and injuring one person. At Sibley a tornado caused a large amount of damage. The surrounding country was also badly damaged. The Oregon Democratic convention adopted a platform indorsing the President’s annual message throughout, demanding forfeiture of unearned landgrants, favoring the election of United States Senators by direct vote, and demanding liberal appropriations for river and harbor improvements. James Bailey, of Shamokin, Pa.,., has fallen heir to a fortune of $1,600,000 by tbe death of an uncle in England. Bailey was a miner, who went out on a strike in January, and since then has lived in abject poverty. He will with his family of eight sail at once to England to take possession of his riches. At the city elections in Cincinnati and Columbus on the 2d both cities went Republican—Cincinnati by 5,000 majority. A city ticket at Oskalooea, Kansas, composed of women for the counc 1 and a woman for mayor, war elected by 66 majority. They are representative ladies, and a reform administration is looked for. The Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine advocates a federation of all operating employes of railroads. The article is significant chiefly from the fact that Eugene Debs, the editor and father of the order,has always fought this Knight of Labor idea of combination, as have the several Grand Masters, including Sargent, who have served with Debs. Samuel W. Brooks, father of Hugh M. Brooks, alias W. H. L. Maxwell, the St. Louis hotel murderer, has written along and touching appeal to the American people to help him save his boy from the gallows. He asks sympathetic citizens to send letters to Governor Morehouse, asking him to interpose his mercy between the boy and the gallows. In the Chicago Aldermanic contest the Republicans elected 19 and the Democrats 11 members of the City Council. This leaves the party representations in the new. Council 32 Republicans, 15 Democrats and one Socialist. This is a gain for the Republicans. In Galesburg two of tbe striking engineers of the Burlington Road were elected Aidermen, and the ticket favored by the strikers was generally successful. Adolph Flinger, of Albert Lea, Minn., has been locked up. His wife died about a year ago, and he now says she told him to burn his property, kill their two children and then himself. Sunday he made a bonfire of S3OO in paper money, $925 in notes, a gold watch and other valuables. The children were awav from home, or he would doubtless have included them in his attempt to obey his dead wife’s supposed instructions. He is insane.

roßKiaw. Madrid fears a revolution. Gen. Boulanger has been elected to the Chamber of Deputies. The Governments of Morocco and the United Slates have agreed to arbitrate their differences. -“ ; Mr. Blaine and f tmilyare at Florence. After visiting Paris they will go to Norway and Sweden, returning home in June., Mr. William O’Brien has begun an action against the Cork Constitution (Conservative) for libel, claiming £5,000 damages. The Sultan of Morocco refuses to accede to tne United States, demands in regard to persons in prison at Rabat who are under consular protection. Summary action by Amei ici is feared. The United States steamer Enterprise has gone to Nice for ordeis regarding 1 the affair. The Czar and the Pope have approved tbe prelimiraries of the conven ion between Rueeia and the Vatican. When the detai s are eetiled Russia will accredit a mfniater to the Vatican, — A sensation was created in Montreal, Saturday, by the announcement that the Star newspaper was hiring a pickand shovel brigade of 500 men and 200 carts to clean the streets, which have become so impassable that traffic is practically suspended. The Snr is having a mandamus taken out against the City Council, which refuses to act because the specific appropriation has been exhausted. It is reported that Bismarck bears strained relations at present to the German Emperor. Prince Alexander, late of Bulgaria, and the most hated enemy of the Ozar, desires to wed Princess Victoria, daughter of the German Emperor. The Emperer and Empress Jare favorable to the alliance but Bismarck has gone so far as to threaten to resign the Chancellorship if the alliance is carried out. Bismarck regards such a move as more than likely to embroil the nation with Russia. Negotiations been have suspended for the present.