Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Snow fell mX-SU Paul on the 29tb. Dexter, the once famoui trotter, ia dead. Seth Thomae, the clock maker, is dead. Booth and Barrett have cleared $600,000 ao far thia season. Nearly 3000 emmip rants landed at Castle Garden, Monday. Western New York towns have been flooded with ailver dollars. The State House at Indianapolis is now heated by natural gas. Marquette, Mich, reported three inches of snow on the 30th. The Chicago anarcb'st paper, the Alarm, has been suspended. The ice in the straits at Mackinaw, Mich., ia softening aud breaking. Immigrant) to the nmnber of 21,272 arrived at Cutie Garden la.t week. Copious and general rains are reported throughout Kamas. Grain is now in splendid condition. The Sunday saloon law recently passe d in Ohio hu virtual y closed Cincinnati saloons on Sunday. Dr. Lyons, a prominent citizen of Attica, was run over and killed by a train near bis home Saturday. Heavy frosts about Norfolk and Staunton, Va., Wednesday night, damaged fruit trees and crops severely. Two coal trains collided at Woodturn, Pa., on the Reading road, killins two men and wrecking seventy-five care. Allen B. Wilson, part inventor cf the Wheeler & Wilton sewing machine died at Waterbury, Conn., on the 29th. Charles J. Ferguson, the well-known pitcher of the Philadelphia haw-ball club, died, Sunday evening, of lyphcid fever. At the Belle Meade stock farm sale, near Nashvjlie, Tenn., fifty two thoreughbredTolti were sold for $24,845, an average of $478. Ernest Richfield and wife, of Philadelphia, suicided by hanging, Wednesday night. The only theory is that they were tired of life. At Topeka, Kan., an explosion of coal oil fatally burned Annie Evans and Mary McLaughlin, aged six, and serioutly burned Mrs. McLaughlin. A Mobile, Ala., jury has given an L. A N. brakeman, knocked from a train and injured so that bis foot had to be amputated, $25,000 damages. Mrs. L. A. Hibbard, widow of the late Dr. Hibbard, has eued H. C. Fry, Sr., the millionaire at Beaver, Pa., for SIOO,000 damages by breach of promise. The New York Assembly at Albany, Thursday, voted down, 4- to 104, the bit! making it a misdemeanor to raise a foreign flag on a State or city building. The late rate war in the routhwest lost the railroads engaged in it several million dollars, and also saved several million dollars to those who otherwise would have paid it. A Chicago brute named Muehlenburg beat his wife’s brains out, Monday, for protecting his daughter, upon whom he had made a fiendish assault. The daughter is but thirteen years old. Sarah Bollen and Mary Leemore, Mormon maidens in Luna Valley, N. Hex., infatuated with a Gentle cewkoy, fought out their quarrel vi h pistols. Miss Bollen was badly injured by a wound in ths shoulder. An explosion of gas took place in a tunnel in No. 4 shaft, of the Delaware & Hadron Company, at Plymouth, Pa., Saturday, killing Patr.ck McGill and John Kneiss, and fatally injuring Chas. O’Connorand two other miners. Near Richmond, Ky., Friday, Arch Stolts, a farmer, committed suicide by taking “Rough on Rats.” His brother William, seeing the corpse, took the remainder of the poison, leaving a note saying he wished both to be buried in the same coffin. The four-year-old child of Wm. Stringer, of Hotsprings, Ark., was attacked and killed by a game cock, Tuesday, gaffing him about the head. The boy was cut and pecked in a terrible manner, and died of convulsions scon after being rescued. . Rev. Charles F. King, pastor of Miller M. E. Church of Columbus, 0., while in a fit of delirium, Sunday night, cut his throat from ear to ear and died instantly. He had been sick with typhoid fever for some weeks past, and during the temporary absence of the nurse he secured a razor and accomplished the act of self-destruction. John Stone, of Danbury, Conn., had his wife placed in the Middletown Asylum recently. It is claimed that she is sane, and the case causes a sensation. Mrs. Stone’s friends profess to have ample evidence to prove that theocr tifleate on which she was confined was secured by the gift of a horse and buggy; —Mrs: Stone iff Rrty- - five. . —— —' Three men, Jack Crow, Geo Moss and Owen D. Hill, were hanged at Fort. Smith, Ark., Friday morning, for crimes committed in the Indian Territory. All the men were negroes with Indian blood. Seven men were eenterod to hang there Friday, but consumption removed Sandy Smith and the centenos of three others were comma ed by the President. Land sharpers have been selling imaginary tracts of Kentucky land to parties around Frankfort, and victims of the same trick are reporting from other Iccalitiee. Li igation has grown out cf the transactions. The fraudulent title

starts with an old land-grant which was many years ago wiped out, and owing to the division of several counties the manipulators managed to cover up their fraud by recording the deeds in one f the newly-made counties. In deeding away these lands a special warrant y deed is used, which conveys their right and title only. v ■ The 27 ch was General Grant's birthday and was celebrated in almost every leading city in the United States. At New York a banquet was given, Gen. Sherman presiding. Among the distinguished people present were; Chauncy M. Depew, M-iyor A. 8. Hewitt, Gen. Mahone, Gen. W. H. Seward, Geo. W. Childs, Cyrus W. Field, Edwards Pierpont, Fitz John Porter. D. O. Mills, Stewart L. Woodford, Robert G. Ingersoll and Elihu Root At Pittsburg, Pa., were Senator Sherman, ex Senator Harrison, Governor Beaver, M. 8. Quay, John O. New, Col. Fred. D. Grant, and others of almost equal prominence. Judge Dore A. Jfarder, of the United States Circuit uourt, Friday, rendered a degree of final hearing in the css) of the American Bell Telephone Company, et al., vs. the National Improved Telephone Company, in equity. The court decided that the telephones used by the defendants were are an infringement on the Bell patents, and orders that all such instruments be delivered to the Clerk of the Court, subject to further orders, and gives the complainants judgments against the defendants for all costs, chargis and disbursements in tbiesuit. William Grant is appointed master to ascertain costs and damages. Hon. Chas. T. Caldwell, until recently known throughout the country as the “Ingersoll of the West Virginia bar,” from his known infidelty to the Christian religion, and who was recently converted by the preaching of Evangelist Simone, has taken local ministerial orde s He preached bis first sermon Sunday morning in the Methodist Episcopal Churh South in Parkersburg, W. Va., to an unusually large and critical audience. The sermon was a masterly effort, abounding in beautiful similes, appeals of touching patboo and logical deductions. rOREIGH. Efforts are being made to implicate Nolan, M. P., in dynamite outrages. Two French art critics fought a duel in Paris on the 29th, one of whom was killed. The ship Smyria was sunk in a collision off the Isle of Wight on the 29th, and thirteen persons were drowned. Prince Bismarck has declined the tit’e of Duke on the ground that he is not in position to support the dignity. Another street fight between Boulanger’s friends and students occurredin Paris on the 29th. A few persons were injured. The Servian Ministry has resigned and a new one is being formed because of the King’s refusal to sanction the communal bill. President Carnot is t rying to overcome the Boulanger movement by libral donations to French charitias , but one pursq will net be able to accomplish this. The Parnellite leaders will make stren - uous efforts to offset the effect of the Pope’s edict against the plan of campaign, and appear confident of being successful. The Parnellites have determined to carry on the plan of campaign despite • the papal decree. They say the necessary defection of the priests will not materially affect them. A banquet was given to Hon. Carl Schurz, at Berlin, Monday night. Count Herbert Bismark, several members of the Reichstag and other distin guiehed persons were presen’. At a banquet given to his political friends, Friday night, General Boulanger emphatically denied the charge that he aspired to the dictatorship. Moreover, if the question were raised in the Chamber, he would vote to abolish the presidency. An immense crowd gathered on ths outside of the case and enthusiastically cheered the General when he appeared. The Pope has issued a decree condemning the plan of campaigning in Ireland. His Holiness says he does eo because he is convinced that the Plan of Campaign is illegal. He says he is also convinced that the land courts will reduce ail unfair rents. Another circumstance that influenced him, he says, is the fact that funds are extorted from contr i butors to the plan. The Pope condemns, boycotting as a practice contrary to justice and charity. He makes no mention of the National League.