Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

There will be no book-betting at the the St. Louis races. Sunday eight’s froet was very destructive to fruit in Central Illinois. Henry Villard is to be made President of the Oregon & Transcontinental Railway. . Fifty animals were sold at the Fasig horse sale, Cleveland, Wednesday, for >25,985. A syndicate with SIOO,OOO capital has been formed to tunnel beneath the river at Detroit. Haroli Brown, of Newport, R. 1., has donated SIOO,OOO for missionary work in the Episcopal churob. A meeting was held at New York looking to the erection of a printers’ monu- ‘ ment to Horace Greeley. Buffalo Bill and party have arrived at New York, as have Ministers McLane (France) and Bell (Netherlands). Minister McLane, who arrived in New York from France, Sunday, thinks Russia will precipitate an European war. An agitation has begun for a reduction of letter rates among the Postal Union countries to five cents an ounce. The stockholders of the 0., B. & Q. road, in annual session, approved the cause of the officials in the recent strike. The Boston Herald, in furtherance of its profit-sharing agreement of a year ago, divided SIO,OOO among its employes Saturday. It is eaid that the notorious Josie Mansfield, who caused the murder of Jim Fiske by Ned Stokes, died at Beverly, N. J., last week. In a trivial quarrel about secret societies, Wednesday night,George Eddleman, a real estate agent of Atlanta, shot and killed Thomas Gresham. George A. Reilly, a Baltimore carpenter, Sunday, tried to separate a man and woman fighting, at Curtis Bay. A shot was fired and Reilly fell dead. It is now said that Tas colt was not Millionaire Snell’s murderer; that he has never been lost, and that important developments are to be made soon. At St. Charles, Mich., Edward Minan and his wife separated, owing to religious differences. Sunday he shot her and then killed himself. She may > recover. Fred Marsden, the well-known playwright, committed suicide, Saturday, becauss of the waywardness of his daughter. Marsden’s true name was Wm. A. Silver. A barn belonging to A. M. Forbes burned in Chicago, Monday morning, and seventy horses were suffocated. Two families living in the building had a narrow escape from death.

Fire at Goldeudale, W. T., Sunday, starting in a livery stable, destroyed the entire bneinees portion of the town,there being no fire department The loss will reach $175,010, the insurance $60,000. Harry Benson, the Patti ticket swindler, awaiting extradition to Mexico, Wednesday night, committed suicide at the Ludlow street jail New York, by jumping from the second tier to the ground. An epidemic of measles is now raging in Fairmount, 111., and adjoining count'es. The cases in one county alone number several hundred. Many schools have been ckeed in consequence. - . ... At Lincoln, Neb., Jamee W. Morgan, a Burlington brakeman and two striking switchmen, Potter and Hutchinson, had a fight over the labor trouble. The latter lost his tongue in the affray and died. He said Morgan bit it off. Forty arreste were made at St. * Louis for violations of the Sunday law, which was enforced Sunday. Very thirsty peopleorgtnizad ‘ clubs,” went to East St. Louis and “bowled up,” or patronized numeious picnics and river excursions. Peter J. Quinn, chief bookkeeper t for Chris G. Dixon & Co, Pittsburg, contractors and builders, has been missing for several days, and it is supposed .that he has gone to Canada. An examination of hisaceouuts show a shortage of $15,000. In the United States Circuit Court, New York, Judge Wallaca rendered an important decision in favor of the defendents in twen'y-six suits for infringe*ment of patent brought by Thomas Edison against the United States Electric Light Company. A supplementary report has been made at Louisville, Ky., in the investigation of Treasurer Tate’s office It shows that SIB,OOO, taxes paid by the Kentucky Central Road, has never been accounted for. This swells the defalcation to $247,000. The Farmers’ Review says the reports from its correspondents do not, as yet, indicate any material improvement in the condition of the wintsr wheat ... crop,in the different States, although in a few instancm mention is made of improvement ar the result of recent rains. ■' ' < Two Harvard students, who had run “short”at.poker, and being ashamed toask theirpareuteforniorßffiOnej, took to robbing fellow students. Thev ware caught ihtheact,but,beingßons of “prominent” citizens, the Police Judgecoasideratly letthem off with a lina. of sls and costs each. Libbie Taylor, the proprietress of a bagnio at Gainesville, Texas, has been convicted of arson and sentenced to seven years’ confinement. About ten

. . J.. ' * -■ ~f ->■ years ago she was married to a nephew of the late Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, and after living with him a year they parted. She claimed that he abandoned her. 1 She soon after became a woman of the town. | Near Shenandoah, Pa., Monday morning, a freight train waa wrecked, some person unknown having wedged a etone into a frog at Moss Creek. The engine plunged a twenty-foot embankment and two cars followed. Engineer James Houghton, of Mahony City, was killed; Fireman John Welch, Mahoney City, fatally hurt, and Frank McCann, brakeman, badly injured. James Taylor, a drummer for a New York drug firm, dropped from the fifth etory of the Palmer House, Chicago, Tuesday afternoon, to the ground floor; He clutched at the banisters of each of the five flights of stairs that he sped past in his extraordinary tumble, and thus slowed up sufficiently to alight with comparative ease. He Will be all right in a week or so. At Muscotah, Kan., Monday, Wm. Badger was arrested after having been a fugitive from justice for twenty-five tears. In 1868 he was appointed Indian agent by President Buchanan, resigning in 1862, when the Government, finding his accounts incorrect, brought suit and obtained judgment for $27,000. Badger disappeared, and was supposed to be dead until his return recently from South America, 78 years old, broken in health, and destitute. The Supreme Court of Michigan has unanimously declared the local option law unconstitutional. The ground upon which this dec sion is reached is very simple, viz: The law is a direct violation of Article 4, Section 20 of the Constitution, although other points are touched upon incidentally. The article of the Constitution violated provides that no law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be embodied in its title. The local option law is entitled, “An act to regulate the manufacture and sale of liquor,” which is not at all what the law is for. J. M. Chandler, agent of the East Tennessee Railroad at Jellico, Tenn., entered the Congregational Church Sunday while religious services were in progress and shot Professor Lawrence, the principal of the High School,.four times, inflicting fatal wounds. Every shot took effect. On Thursday night Lawrence had called on Chandler to collect tuition from him for two of his children who had been attending school. Hot words followed, in which Lawrence reflected on the honor of Mrs. Chandler. The latter’s husband nursed the insult and, while Lawrence was engaged in worship at the church of-which he is -a- member, deliberately shot him. A rather remarkable accident occurred at New Harmony, Ind., near Evansville, to Captain W. 8. Wolfe, a well-known citizen of that city, Tuesday morning. He was fishing in the river near that place, when a huge catfish seized his bait and started away withit The inexperienced fisherman imagined that he had hooked a huge bass, and when his pole was broken by the powerful catfish he wound the line around his wrist in order to retain his prise. In a few moments,however,hisdelusion was dissipated as the fish gradually drew him into the stream, and while eallingjoudly for help he was drawn under the water. The strong tension upon the line prevented his unwinding it,whilethe fish here him along swiftly until passing under a projecting log, he was enabled to hold his own until his now frantic companions came to his relief. It required a powerful effort to relieve him. as the line had cut its way deep into the flesh, and while they were preparing to cut the line the fish started in an opposite direction, swimming near the surface, where he was dispatched with an Iron gig from the boat The unfoitunateman and his strange catch were then taken ashore, where the monster catfish was found to weigh 120 pounds. The occurrence is unprecedented in the fishing annals in this section. ... , : — KO REION. Enormous quanities of Russia corn are being imported into Germany. Professor Virchow’s examination of of the matter from the Emporer’s throat confirms the results of his former examination. He finds nothing proving the existence of cancer. The Vatican Journal notes that Catholic publications in America unanimously approve the papal rescript, and again urges the Vatican not to condemn Henry George’s writings. Messrs. Kelynge and Charles Greenway, partners in Greenway, Smith & Green wav’s Bank at Warwick, London, which failed in September last, have been,, committed for trial on a charge of fraud. They were admitted to bail in $50,000.