Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — THOUSANDS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

THOUSANDS KILLED.

Mb*. Giwdt hu inn aunced that otoi«tu7 Ba*aid will marry Mrs. Polaom, andthaabteome President Cleveland’a father-in-law. If thie were true Mr. Bayard would hare a very healthy son, and tan'leoine daughter, but the probabilities are that Mrs. Grandy has lied. Tnm people who have got left in the Southern California land boom hold ex perienoe meetings in the saloons sing the following ditty to the tone of “The OH Lng Cabin in the Lane”. Oh, th* root wa*eopi>er bottomed And the chimney to ll gold, Td an tier*tor placed on every atalr: . '• But 1 lout it all in m train*, And will never more behold My double-bre*«ted mansion on the square. The Emperor ol Germany naturally opposes Bismank’s desire t > retire from office. At Hits moment, inleed, the Chancellor’s service seems almost as tseential t > the St ft* as they have been at any time within the part decade and a half. Nevertheless, in the common order of things, his » rvices can not be retained many mt re yes re. He li as just past the 731 milestone in bis life’s joniney. If the man is in eh lit who is to take up the wtrk when Bistrsrck )ay|... it down, he ehoold be put in training ler the task atones. ___________ K \,. Labob Commissioner Peck, cf New York has made a very interesting and instructive reDort upon the subject c f the strikes which occurred in that State during 1887. According to bia showing, the number of woiktnen engaged in strikes was 60 000, and they gained in the form cf advanced uages $344,000; but at the same time they lost orei $2,000,000 on account of the, time that they were out of employment. That is to sty, the net result was a loss oi $1,056000. Top iesson cf each figures is so plain that the simplest laborer can easily comprehend it.

By tin-'EuHiquake In Chinn—Th« Profintr oi Ynnjun the Scene of Shock* Continued for Weeks—Whole Towns Laid H aste. * The steamer City of New York, which arrived in San Francisco, Monday, from China, brings details of an earthquake in Ynnyun. The prefect of Li nan, with Chi Hiens, of Ship Ping, and Kien Shui under him, have jointly reported to the Government as f olio we: ‘•From the second day of the twelfth month cl the last year till the third day o this year, there were over ten shcckß of earthquake, accompanied with a noise like thender. Yatnend, in the cities of Ship P.ng and Kien Shoi, were either knock'd down or split right down. In Ship Ping eight or nine-tenths of the hooses in the south are falling down and hail of those in the era'; in the northwest a thousand are cracked or bent oat of the perpendicular. Two hundred people—men and women, old and young—were washed to death, the wounded and injured being over 300. At Tong Biang over 800 were crashed to deain and about 700 or 800 wounded. At Nan Hiang there are over 203 dead and over 400 injured. At Si Hiang there are over 200 dead and over 500 irju ei. At Pen Hiang about 100 were killed and the same number injured. (The four places laat named are suburbs). In the town and sabnrbs over 4,000 people are either kiiltd are wonnded, eight or nine tenths ol the houses fallen down, and the rest cracked and leaning over. At Kien SLu, in the city, Beven were killed and many wounded; in the northwest suburb 300 or 400 hundred hooses were overturned, 249 people killed and 150 or 100 wounded.