Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

John L. Sullivan is on his way home. Michigan’s wheat crop is in bad condition. ] Oongreeraan Cannon has been renominated. Disastrous forest fires have been raging at Falmpnth. Mass. Lacy Gibbons, colored, died at Lebanon, Ky., the 11th, aged 112. The Bt. Johnsville, (N. Y.,) bank was robbed Friday night of $12,000. Green Clay Smith is Kentucky Prohibitionist’s choice for President. A large flow of petroleum has been struck at Leavenworth. Kansas. Chicago is trying to organize a movement to secufe the enforcement of the Sunday laws. An enthusiastic meeting to further the professed “Farmers Trust,” was held at Meriden, Kan., Saturday. Kansas farmers have strung up four horse thieves in No-Man’s-Land and have nine more corraled. The New York Assembly has voted to to submit a prohibitory amendment to the people of that State. Sam Jones, the evangelist, will spend a week in St. Louis, speaking in favor of the iocal opt on movement. The ooke situation in Pennsylvania is getting serious, 2,200 ovens and 4,000 men being already out of work. Henry B. Lourveing has succeeded Gen. N. P. Banks in the positihn of U. B,' district attorney for Massachusetts. Robert Vanßrant, of Warsaw, N. Y. and Nelson Holand, of Fergus Falls, Minn., murderers, were hanged, Friday. A movement is on foot in Connecticut to ran Gen. Terry for the Republican nomination for Governor of that State. Bessemer, Aia., eelebrated its first anniversary, Thursday, and thousands at' tended. Toe speakers all favored protection. The,American Exchange in Europe suspended, Friday. Liabilities $4 000,000. The Hon. Joßeph R. Hawley is the President. Burglars fatally wounded young Henry Dilkman, at Toledo, Sunday, while he and his father were trying to drive them out. There are now sixty-six smallpox patients in the hospital at North Brothers’ island, New York harbor, and new cases are being constantly reported. Austin Corbin and Alferd Sully gb to Europe soon to place the $26,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds reserved to retire the present Reading general mortgage. The fnneral of Peter Hayden occtirred in New York on the 10th. He started in life as an errand boy at $2 per week, but amassed a fortune of $20,000,000. The and daughter of Thomas Baker of Wellsville, 0., were were fatally burned, Friday. The girl fell into a brush fire and the mother tried to save her. ' T. 0. Lewis, mayor o\ Olean, N. Y., has eloped with the daughter of a prominent citizen, leaving a wife and two ohildren. They have been traced to Boston. Some prominent ladies and gentlemen of Boston have originated a project for the presentation of a colossal statue of Washington in bronze to the French Republic. Jerry Smith, a negro, who attempted to assault a white girl some days ago, wan ' aken from jail by a crowd of farmers, Thursday, near Memphis, Tenn., and lynched. Willie Grady, six years old, accidentally shot and killed bis sister Ella, tnree years old, Friday morning, at bis parents’ borne, in Chicago, while playing with a pistol. Burr Color stabbed and killed G. W. Bowen in the court room at Hoisington, Kan., Friday. They were farmers and had been at law with each other, Bowen winning the cas?. John S. Simon, Treasurer of Darke county, Ohio, has been convicted of embezzling $23,985.59. The prisoner is indicted for stealing about SBO,OOO of the funds of Greenville. The Ohio Legislature has parsed the O wens bill closing all saloons on Bund ay and taking from municipal corporations the power to say whether liquor shall be sold on the Sabbath. The monthly crop report shows the eonditionof winter wheat to be unfavorable. Its percentage is 82, the lowest in five years. The conditiou of rye is favorable, averaging 92. “liiTL Hsrperrwhose husband-hr in the penitentiary for wrecking the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, has purchased a controlling interest in the Riverside Iron and Steel Works. Four workmen were killed in an accident on the Kansas City, Memphis & Burlington railroad Friday, and several others injured. The construction One thing has been made evident by the Mormon oonference' , wbich has just closed at Salt Laxe, namely, that polygamous marriage is rapidly becoming distasteful to the Mormons themselves. New York and New Jersey held municipal elections Tuesday. In the latter State a Legislature was chosen, the Democrats electing a majority on the high-license local option question. The Chicago brewers stiuck Friday, because the employing brewers had determined to no longer recognize any unions. Every brewery in the cdty is doted and about 2,000 men are oat of work. While crossing a bayou at New Madrid,

Mo., Taunday, Mr. Meyer and two sms were thrown into the water, the tost turning over. Bjth parents were drowned, but the boys swam ashore. John Vice, of Owensville, Kentuckv, has been printed a pernio a of $72 per month and arrears, which will am ion t to $14,000, tho largest amount that has ever been piid to a private soldier. Vice is totally blind. £ ■ While Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, of Las Vegas, were walking in Albuquerque, N. Mex., Sunday, a pistol fell from the former’s pocket, and, exploding as it touchedthi ground, sent a ballet through his wife’s heart. . Judge Elliott Friday sentenced J. S. Simon, defaulting ex-Treasurer of Darke county, Ohio, to six years in the penitentiary, aud to pay aline amountto about $48,000 and costs, the fine being double amount of the embezzlement It is alleged that lowa saloon-keep-ers are making preparations to Bell imported liquors, lawyers setting up a claim that the sale of imported intoxicants can not be stopped, bo long as they remain in the orignal packages. General Sherman has sent letters to Generals James Longstreet, John B. Gordon, S. B. Buckner, Fits L9e, William Mahone, John S. Mosby and Joeph E. Johnston, inviting them to join him in celebrating the birthday of Gen. Grant by a banquet at Deliponioo’s. The election of a Democratic Senator from Co’orado, Illinois, lows, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebiaska. New Hampshire, New Jersey, Orepan, or Rhode Island, or the election of a Vice President, would give tbe Democrats a majority in the Senate in 1889. A. W. J. Brown, of Cleveland, has been roaming around in Michigan seeking whom he might marry. The returns are not all in, bat it is said that so far he has succeeded in corraling about twenty maidenß of various ages and conditions, without getting a divorce from any of them. The Banks and Monroes of Wirt county, Virginia, have been having trouble. Thursday, Stiles Banks met the three Monroe brothers and about twenty allots were exchanged. The Monrce brothers were all killed. Banks received four wounds, none of them fatal. Which goes to show that Mr. Banks is a good shot with a Winchester. James Pike, a bally at Ona Station, W. Va., has been seeking a quarrel with Charles B Hops. Monday evening he met the latter as Billops was coming out of the woods with an ax on his shoulder. Pike attacked Billops' with a knife, when Billops raised the ax and struck Pike a terrific blow, splitting his body from the shoulders to the waist.

The San Francisco Chronicle says that, while Senator Stanford may be irreproachable should ho be nominated by the Republicans for President, all the wrong-doings of the Pacific roads would be shouldered onto'him. The Post opposes him. The Alta and Examiner say the California delegation will be instructed foe him. A syndicate headed by 0. W. Griggs, of St. Paul, and H. E. Hewitt, of Hew Richmond, Wis , have purchased from the Northern Pacific Road 80,000 acres of tinker lands within thirty miles of Tacoma, W. T. The sales involve the building of a line from Tacama, to be known as the Tacoma Southern, at a cost of $2,000,000Mrs. H. Austin Jones, a favorite in Boston society, dropped dead of heart disease, while singing at a reception to her friends, Tuesday night, at the Hotel Yendome. She was said to be a member of the royal family of Prussia, where her husband, a wealthy gentleman of leisure, met and married her. She was a beautiful woman, about thirty-five, years old, and noted for ability in music. William Hopkins,who with his brother Joe, murdered William Thomas, in Ruban county, Georgia, one Sunday .because he wore store clothes, will be hanged May 11. His only sorrow is that his brother, who was sent to the penitentiary, is not to be hanged with him. His father called on him Monday and when about to leave, the murderer asked: “Pap, will yon come out to the hang?” The old man, looking at the passing clouds, replied: “Wall, if it's too wet for plowin,’ I reckon I will.” The Industrial Employes’ Association at Findlay, Ohio, has gone to the wall, leaving 450 poor and confiding stockholders with nothing to Bhow for their money but certificates of membership. Samuel W. Anderson was general manager, and it is estimated that he secured $3,000 by the scheme. Agencies of the Association are scattered throughout the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, New. York, Pennsylvania, and as far weft mi Kansas, and had not the bnbble burst when it did the returns would soon have been rich and productive. Mary Smith, who has kept house for John and Henry Hill, farmers near Jamestown, Ey., came to a neighbors, Thursday, and said she had fled from them for her life. "Three weeks ago they had killed two pedd'ers, forcing her to hold them. By threats of death they had kept her silent. Now tney are talking' of killing her anyhow to be entirely secure. Two weeks ago hogs were found eating human remains near the Hill farm, and later the remains of the peddlers were discovered in a cave. The Hills were lodged in jail it Jamestown Thursday night The rising of the rivers in the North-

west has already ciueei serioas damage,’ and threatens to cause more. At Grand Rip'.ds, Wisconsin, a gorge .nas flooded the business portion,^aad stores are being deserted. AtOconto, Wisconsin, many people have been obliged to move into second stories. At Red Wing, Minnesota, Cannon Falls and Zumbrota already SIOO,OOO ■ worth of damage has been caused, bat the worst is over. Reports from La Crosse, Wisconsin, state that the rising of the rivers has flooded out millions of log 3 which lodged at Trempelean, on the Mississippi, causing a serious impediment. At St. Paul, the Mississippi has gone above the danger point, and people in the poor quarter on the fiats are moving out. The river is still rising, and danger of a serious flood is imminent. rOHKIGM. R’chgold discoveries are reported from Alaska, 200 miles northwest of Bitks. The Salvation Army has opened a restaurant in London where a meal can be obtained for two can,'a. Forty persons were killed and about five hundred injured by the tornado at Daca, India, on Saturday last. The Pope Thursday celebrated a special mass in St. Peter’s for 20,000 French, Austrian and Slav pilgrims. It is Btated that the late Emperor William left thesum oHhlrty marks to .every invalid soldier of the FrancoPrnesian war of 1870. In the election Saturday for the department of tbe Nord, General Boulanger received 172,272 votes; Foucart, 75,781, and Moreau, 9,643. Sir Donald Smith, President of the Bank of Montreal, has given $1,000,000 for the endowment of tbe Royal Victoria College for women at Montreal. At a banquet Wednesday night,Secretary Balfour made a speech saying he believes the condition of Ireland is incomparably better than when he took the officeMr. Gladstone, speaking at a banquet Wednesday, said the Government’s refusal to extend local government to Ireland was scandalous and dishonorable to England. The court at Malaga has sentenced Senor Vila, a Spanish pastor, to t wentyeigbt months’ imprisonment for publishng a pamphlet condemning Roman Catholic dogmas. The first exeention at Madrid in five years took place Wednesday, when a girl, her lover and accomplice were garroted for murder. All three were executed on the same platform, in view of 20,000 persons. The Hungarian Minister 'of Agriculture has notified all agricultural code ties that Herr Mandl, manager of a spirit distillery at Raab, has discovered an efficient preventive of plenro-pneu-monia in cattle. Professor Tyndall in a letter to the Union says the country should recollect Carlyle’s words: “A minister who is wicked enough to propose to sever Ireland from England deserves to have his head brought to the block.” He refers to Gladstone. Emperor Frederick, of Germany, is rapidly nearing the end. His physicians give no assurance that he will live bat a short time. The family have been summoned to his bedside. Bronchitis and inflamation of the lungs seriously complicate the cancerous affection of the throat.