Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Governor Hill, ot 4 New York, has vetoed the high lioenee bill. Governor Hill has vetoed the bill repealing the Saturday half-holiday law in New York. i ■ . * Tbe rain storm in Kansas, Sunday, was the severest ever known. Much damage was done. The privilege of selling beer at the Cincinnati Centennial Exposition has been sold for $21,500. The oil tanks at Oil City, Pa., caught Ire Monday, and $250,000 worth of property were destroyed. At Danbury, Ga., Sunday, Dan Bale was lynched for attempting to rape a school teacher named bmith. Standard Oil lumber yards and barrel factory on Shooter’s Island, near New York, burned Monday. Loss SBOO,OOO. At Atlanta, Ga., Monday, water was changed in a fish commission ear. Artesian water was supplied. It killed 45,000 fiih and 3,000,000 eggs. The striking brewery employes in Chicago have made an unconditional surrender and ask to be reins'ated but the bosses say that their places are all filled. Roscoe Conkling’s will, dated in 1807, leaves all his property to Mrs. Conkling. Thorough search fails to reveal any later document. The estate is supposed to amount to $200,000. James Vick, the Rochester florist, mails his seeds from across the Canadian line at the rate of 1 cent for four ounces, >the rate en this side being a cent an ounee, and this Government can’t help itself. A storm Monday drove several barges against the United States steamers At- . lanta and Galena, a New Orleans, sinking the barges and causing the Galena to part anchor. The total loss by the sinking of the barges is $125,000. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided that a licensed saloon-keeper in the State of Wisconsin who sells intoxicating liquors on Sunday isnot amenable under the law and his place es business can not be closed up, nor can bis trade be abated as a nuisance. Libbie Taylor, the proprietress of a bagnio at Gainesville, Texas, has been convicted of arson and sentenced to seven years’ confinement. About ten years ago she was married to a nephew of the late Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, and after jiving with him a year they parted. She claimed that he abandoned her. She soon after became a woman of the town. At J. J. Hill’s sale of shorthorns at his farm at North Oaks, Tenn,, there were thirty-seven animals sold for $14,335, the average price being SBBS. The highest price paid was $1,900, by B. O. Ramsey, of Buffalo, for the imported Duchess of Ramfant second. William Btelle, of lowa. Mich., paid $1,550 for Grand Duchess of North Oaks second, and H. C. G. Bals, of Indianapolis, paid the same price for North Oaks Lady of Oxford. The commission house of W. T. Coleman & Co., of Ban Francisco, the largest on the Pacific coast, established in 1849, made an assignment Monday. The step was taken owing to the urgent call for ad vances from New York, which the firm could not make. Frank Johnson, managing member, places the assets of the firm at from $4,000,000t0 $4,500,000, with liabilitis at $2,000,000. Mr. Johnson states that among the most valuable assets of the firm is a borax deposit which is valued at $4,C00,000, negotiations for the eale of which were in a fair way to be consumated whan the announcement of the tariff bill placing borax on the free list tended to defeat the efforts in that direction. The house has agencies in Astoria, Oregon, New York, Chicago and London. The business of the house is said to amount to $14,000,000 per year. . . • i FOBKIGW. A severe earthquake is reported in Japan. '•< Three thousand persons have been drowned by a flood in the Canton river. Advices from Rio Janerio state that the Brasilian Chamber of Deputies has parsed a bill for the immediate abolition of slavery. An attempt to enforce the Pope’s rescript respecting the ‘‘Plan of Campaign,” will lead to a revolt against the church in Ireland. A visitation of crickets is devastating Algeria. Vegetation is totally destroyed, and tbe dead bodies of the insects have poisoned the ground, to the imminent danger of creating a pestilence. The trial es Mr. John Dillon, charged, under the crimes act, with inciting tenants not to pay rent, which was begun on Wednesday at Tullyvalla, was concluded Friday. Mr. Dillon was convicted and sentenced to six months’ fan* prisoment without hard labor. - After the withdrawal of the claims for a money indemnity in the Morocco trouble, an apology was tendered to the American Consul, and orders were given for the immediate release of the persons whose arrest gave rise to the trouble. Bismarck’s influence led to the settleLord Wolseley, Adjutant General of (he British forces, has tendered his resig nation in consequence of the Lord Salisbury’s attack upon him for making what the ErimeMifoatercalleda*'panic-pro-ducing speech” in regard to the condition of the army. The Cabinet is said to

be strongly oppoied to the acceptance of the reeigoatfen. Stephen Von Kegel, the famous Austrian millionaire, committed suicide Friday. The foundation of his fortune was an inheritance of 20,000,000 florins, which be largely increased by fortunate speculation. He was styled tbe handsomest man in the empire, and was the most prominent sportsman in Hungary. His death occurred on his estate, near Btnblweiesenburg. The Vatican has ordered that all Catholic papers in Rome answer Mr. Parnell’s speech. The Moniteur says that the numerous adhesions to the resori pt coming from Irish faity and clergy prove that Mr. Parnell is ignorant of the sentiment of the people. It is believed that the Pope will not insist upon a collective adhesion to the Irish bishops unless symptoms of resistance arise. Archbishop Walsh, in a letter to the Freeman’s Journal, in reference to the papal rescript condemning the plan of campaign and boycotting, says: “The rescript decides a question of morals, not of politics. If doubts and controversies arise concerning its meaning, the Irish Bishops of the Vatican will explain it. The Irish people may be assured that neither the national movement nor the National League shall be in the least injuriously affected.”