Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. General Sheridan is ill. A child named Guill was killed and much damage to property done by a tornado at Beloit, Kan. • A herd of horses' valued at SI,OOO was tPn into by a train at Saybrook, 111., and seven of them killed. The amalgated association of iron and steel-workers has joined the American protective tariff league; » Sir. Blaine’s home at Augusta, Me., it is claimed has been broken into, and several private-papers attracted. An Indian outbreak is imminent at the Pine Ridge agency in Dakota, and troops have; been ordered to the scene. ( No particulars. Alfred Dawkee, on trial at Omaha for murder, hanged himself in his cell,leaving a note saying he desired to save expense to the county. Mrs. A. C. Koneger, of Elgin, 111., Thursday attempted to rescue her 10month old child from an approaching freight train. Both were killed. An Italian-boarding house at Pittston, Pa., burned Sunday. Three children of the proprietor, Christopher Sarageni, perished, and several men were hurt, some fatally. The opium-smoking evil in New York is bn the increase. Sunday two brothels on Mott street were raided, and a num bjer of girls, some of them yet in short dresses, were captured. The corner-stone of the new Catholic university at Washington, was laid Thursday, with imposing ‘ceremonies. Cardinal Gibbons and a great many church degnitaries were present. J. M. Cleland, of Cleveland, while under the influence of liquor, Thursday, quarrelled with his wife. In his fury he shot his wife, his thr.ee year old daughter and then himself, ali fatally. The American committee of the statue

of liberty say it will require $50,000 to light the statue, and that, unless Congress makes the appropriation the lighting will have to be abandoned. William H. Rowe, formerly city marshal of Huntsville, Tex., was hanged at Navasota Saturday for murdering his wife for insurance money. Fully 5,000 people enjoyed the spectacle in the artless Texas fashion. ’ , Boston Corbett, the slayer of Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, who has been in the Kansas insane asylum at Topeka, escaped Sunday, and is now at large. Corbett has 1 KxmiriOTtrorH'eser violent for some time and threatens the lives of the Governor and State officers. - " . 1 Joseph James, a wel 1-hi-do thougli miserly resident of Timntonsville, S. C., was assassinated a few days ago, While sitting at the supper table with his only son. Tlje shot was fired through the window. It now transpires that The son hired a negro to commit the deed, giving him SSOO. The son is in jail. In rehearsi n g for" ~ a n amateur presentation of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” at a country school house near Dillon, Neb., Thursday night, J. W. Fouts, the teacher, pointed a pistol at Samuel Stump, thinking it was not loaded. It exploded, the ball passing through

Stump’ head, killing him instantly. Captain R. S. McCaughrey, the Cook county,’ “boodle” Commissioner, has been pardoned . by Governor Oglesby. McCaughrey was the only one of the hoodlers wjio accepted his sentence," going to prison and paying his fine, while the others fought against their fate to the last quibble in the highest courts of the State. He comes out just as they go in. ~ At the Methodist Protestant Quadrennial Conference session in Adrian, Mich., ■the committee on revision reported unfavorably on the resolution for licensing women to preach. The conference concurred in the report. The committee on missions recommended the reduction of the National Mission Board from thirteen to nine, and that its charter of incorporation be taken out in Ohio, and it was so ordered. — 777", Engineers of the Tennessee Steel and Iron Company, while surveying in Wise county, Va., were attacked by a body of men in the bushes and two of the party killed. A company of guards, in command of Captain Boston, employed to protect the engineers, were driven off and routed. Great trouble is expected, and the settlers of the neighborhood warn the engineers to leave immediately. The cause of the trouble is a dispute over the possession of land which- both the settlers and company claim.

FOREIGN. A copious rain which foil in Southern Russia lias saved the crops, and an abundant harvest is assured. Jrqnf various reports which have been received, it is estimated that 103 fishermen have been lost in a gale off tjje, coast of Iceland. A report comes from Egypt that Osman Digna’s camp has been burned bv -—incendiaries in order-te-eempel bim to retteat. Two thousand of hii? folio were are said to have perished*. At a meeting of the Dublifi Corporaa telegram from Arichbishop "Walsh, . dated Rome, as follows: “Assure the municipal authorities of Dublin that all I. apprehension of. interference by —the Holy See in Irish political affairs is *,' girmndlesß. ,t —— ——— A terrible explosion took place Thursday in Merlot’s eatridge and fire-works factory, between Pabtin and Pre St.

Gerves, Paris, by which seven buildings were destroyed. Eleven (lead bodies have been taken from the ruins, and twenty-on© persons, all more or less injured, have been rescued. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, says that the Czar, iii the course of the . summer, will attend the maneuvers of the troops in the Odessa district, and from there will proceed to the Caucaus, extending his tour probably to Turkestan.