Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Saloons’were closed in New Jersey, Sunday. . A cyclone did much damage to property at Pekin, 111., Saturday. Farmers in Minnesota are discouraged at the backwardness of the seasbn. Bishop Ireland has been elevated to the archbishopric, with jurisdiction over Minnesota and Dakota. The annual report of the Lake Shoi’e and Michigan Southern railroad shows net earnings of $7,681,164. The general conference of the M. E. church in session at New York,Monday, decided absolutely not to admit women as delegatee. ' * Alfred Birnes died near Mexico, Mo., Sunday, at the age of ninety-eight years. He had been a Mason for seventy-five years, and is said to have been the oldest member of the order in the world. John Wright, who shot and killed a young man named Budd Vann, in St. Helena, Cal., about two weeks ago, was taken from the jail by a mob of masked men, Sunday, and hanged to a bridge. Fanny Davenport has sued for a divorce from Edward Price, for whom, rumor says, she paid his former wife $5,000. Price will make no defense. Melbourne McDowell, her leading man, has just been divorced. , + The Dartmouth faculty have decided that the students of that college must drop football, base ball and general athletics because of the excessive amount of time and money required to conduct them all. Joseph Pongor, head sawyer in Van Dusen’s saw mill at Dorchester, Wis., accidentally fell on the carriage and the eaw sliced him lengthwise from head to foot. Before the carriage cruld be stopped he was divided into twenty pieces. The strike at Braddock Pa., ticaliy off. A major.ty of Knights of LaborreturneflT k this morning at Carnegie’s tekL JE is a disastrous defeat for the® WadO? The large mill is running full capacity. W. 0, Streeter, a painter in St. Louis, says that the horrible Sultana disaster was caused by the explcsien of a torpedo placed in the boat by Robert Lowden; alias Charite Dale, a painter who woked with him in St. Louis. Fortunately Mr. Lowden is now dead A bold attempt was made to rob psrsengerj on a B. & 0. train near Mansfie'd, 0., Sunday morning. The robber was single-handed and alone, and was soon overpowered by the conductor. He was allowed to go after returning to the passengers the valuables he had secured. Fred J. Stewart. Treasurer of Luce county and postmaster of Newberry, Michigan, was arrested by United States authorities Friday, together with his deputy, 0. W. Heux, editor of the Newberry News, on the charge of embezzlement. United States Commissioner Stacy held them under $2,000 bonds each, which they were unable to furnish. The amount of the shortage is said to be $1,200. A Louisville company propose to utilize the natural gas supply of Indiana, and have asked of Congress permission to lay conduit pipes upon or beneath the Ohio river for the purpose of piping natural gas, petroleum or salt water from-Indiana into Kentucky. In makinga favorable recommendation on thig scheme, the committee on commerce says: “It seems that there have been many discoveries of natural gas in Indiana near enough to be piped and used in the city of Louisville, but it will be necessary to cross the river.” A bad state of affairsis reported from Loundes county, Ala., growing out of the recent lynching of a colored murderer. The negroes have been threatening vengeance, it seems, and Friday the Sheriff, with a posse, went to Sandy Ridge and arrested fifteen negroes. On the way back to Hayneville, the county seat, the posse encountered a mob of armed negroes. A fight ensued, and Deputy Sheriff Meriwether and D. Gook, whites, were wounded, and two negroes were probably killed. After several volleys the negroes dispersed and separated. Dr. Everett Wagner, an eccentric physician, living near Edmonton, Metcalf county, Kentucky, shunned by hie relative, until recently, when they believed he was about to die, and being desirous of securing some little trinket, “to remember their beloved relative,” has made a will giving to each one of them some member or portion of bis body after death, and says if any be forgotten the dissecting surgeon shall supply the lack—“first come, first served.” The remains are to be buried in the potter’s field, and the executor and surgeon each are to have SSOO. The residue of his estate is to go to public charities in Metcalf county. The estate is worth $12,000. The new liquor law which has been voted on by most of the counties in Michigan went into effect Monday, Most of tbe‘"saloons in the counties that went dry are closed. The others have been turned into soft-drink saloons, billiard-rooms and restaurants. At | Owasso a drunken mob took possession of the streets, Saturday night, and the officers were powerless. A bonfire was smarted, and amid the howling of the mob the fire-bell rang, which caused great excitement Men paraded streets ringing dinner-bells and the drunken

rabble kept up the din until Sunday morning. A fine plate-glass window was smashed and several bloody fights took place. At Adrian, twenty-one of the thirty-one saloons in the city which were open last Monday were open Monday. Some sold soft drinks only, while a few did business just as usual, only a little more carfully. The two brewers have stopped manufacturing. rORFJGM. [ J Carl Schurz dined Friday evening at. the residence of Prince Bismarck. Among the invited guests were Count Von Stolberg-Wemigerode . and Count Doenhca '-Friedrichstein. The interview Wednesday between Carl Schurz and Prince Bismarck lasted twp and there-quarters hours. The meeting was of the most cordial character. The conversation covered wide field, and questions affecting the whole world were touched upon. Hock and cigars were served, afterward, and the Chancellor accompanied Mr. Schurz in a walk in the park.