Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Jay Gould is ill. The outlook for spring .wheat in Dakota is excellent. ' , . The St. paul, Minn., Knitting Works burned Friday. Loss $77,000. Chicago ' Irishmen denounce the Pipe’s rescript on Irish affairs. Gen. Sherman will attend the Cincinnati Centennial Sept. 10th and 11th next. Three men were fatally injured by a sliding lumber crib at LaCrosse, M isconsin. Three men were killed by the explosion of a boilerat Wyahdotte, Mich., Friday. » James B. Hayes, Chief Justice *.of the Supreme Court of Indian Territory, died Fridny. • r •■» ' The Chicago Times says the Knights of Labor are going to pieces rapidly in that city. The government coinage in May was $0,420,226, of which $2,850,000 was in silver dollars. The production of iron in the South has caused a reduction of price on Eastern product. The steamer Evansville exploded her boilers near Winona, Minn., scalding six men, none fatally. The little daughter of Ben Shiplett, near Charlotte, N. C., was destroyed by bears a few days ago. Jrince March 4, 1885, 80,090,720 acres of public domain have been opened for entry and settlement. Upwards ot 5,000 emigrants arrived on board the steamers coming into the port of New York, Sunday. The Methodist Conference Thursday passed a resolution forcing a union of Methodists of all nationalities. .A foolish Indian scare has been started by a frightened settler in Wyoming. There is no fear of an outbreak.

The Illinois Central has organized the Nebraska & Western Railroad Company to build 18,000,000 worth of lines in that State. Comanche county, Kas., will have to gay of bonds issued a number of years ago by a ring of rascally county officials. Dr. John Osborn and J. W. Hancock, prominent citizens of Nakomis, 111, had an altercation Friday, and both were fatally hurt. Decoration day was fittingly celebrated in all cities North and West. President Cleveland reviewed the procession at New York. Turkey refuses to permit Armenian emigration to America, on thp ground that it conflicts with our anti-imported labor contract law. At Omaha, Neb., Thursday evening, a thief robbed the house of J. EC Ggrneau of over $4,000 worth of diamonds. He silenced Mrs. Ggrneau with a revolver. Robert Reidy and Bovd Guinter, aged fifteen and thirteen, were drownedinthe river at Williamsport, Pa., Sunday. They were the sons of prominent citizens. ~ s-

Burglars robbed the residence of Mrs. Lee Jerome, at Wichita, Kansas, Thursday night, of SIO,OOO worth of diamonds and jewelry. The inmates were chloroformed. i Andrew (irandsaff, lyrested for the murder of Reuben Drake, wife and grandchildren, near Yiroqua, Wife., was taken out of jail Friday night last and hanged. I ■'_ ■ ' ' ■ A freight train of seventeen cars was ditched at Rallito Station, on the Southern Pacific railroad, Wednesday night. The loss to the cars and contents will reach SIOO,OOO. • The*memorial exercises in New York, Wednesday, were characterized by much blundering, both Mayor Hewitt and Gen.. Bherman being ignored. Considerable resentment is expressed. Deputy Sheriff 1 Albert Ahlfeldt was fatally, and Deputies John Monahan and C. C. Garrett seriously wounded in a fight with river men at St. Charles, Mo. Sheriff Allen is missing. . Coffee speculators are 'influencing the price of coffee, up and down, as they please. It is predicted that there will be a general rise in the price of this commodity before many w eeks. At Catlin, 111., on Friday, Thomas Polhemus, aged eighty, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, at hard /labor, for the attempted burglary of Woodbury’s drug store at Danville. At Chicago, Sunday evening, James Bell, a young business man of Hyde Park, sliced off an ear from John Stevens, a young man about tow n, who Mr. Bell thought had led Mrs. Bell astray. He walked off with the ear in his vest pocket. * The barrel in which two men have

already gone 6afely through the Niagara rapids was sent over the falls Sunday, as an experiment, with a live chicken as a passenger. The barrel passed over without injury, but the chicken was killed by the shifting of the ballast. Rev. S. B. Halliday, for many years assistant pastor of Plymouth church, New York, haS sent in his resignation. Mr. selected at the' request of the late Mr. Beecher, but it is underjßtood that he is not a favorite with the present controllers- of the church. A battle took place between the Jones and Green factions in Hancock county, lil uIKIA), _W liu-u ICBUJUiu . death df fwo of the Green family—Frank, the son of Hampton Green, and Lewis Moore. A. D. Jones led the attacking party.- The feud began in January over a “bad fence.”

A collision occcurred on the Cheyenne & Northwestern branch of the Union Pacific Railroad.near Bordeaux, Wednes■tr 1 day, between a work train and a passenger engine, Which resulted in the death of Passenger Conductor Header, Fireman Edem and Brakeman Mayfield, and the probably fatal injury of Engineers Brooks and Marsden and the serious injury of lour fther employes. A washout was the cause. 1 The assignment of the Bishops of th e Methodist church to their respeCtives homes for the next four years is as follows: Bishop Bowman, St. Louis; Foster, Boston; Merrit, Chicago; Andrews, New York; Warren, Denver; Foss, Philadelphia; Hurst, *Ninde, Topeka; Walden, Cincinnati; Mallalieu, New Orleans; Fowler, San Francisco; Vincent, Buffalo; Fitzgerald, Minneapolis; Joyce, Chattanooga; Newman, Omaha; Goodsell, Texas.

Stillman F. Kelly, President of the National Sugar Manufacturing Company, has made public the plan by which that concern it to manufacture sorghum sugar on a larger scale than ever heretofore. The concern has a capital of $1,000,000, is incorporated under the laws of Kansas, and claims to hold a patent (Swenson’s) by which it can extract three Mines the amount of sugar that has heretofore been possible, and the 'extract will be of an improved quality, The wor&s are at Topeka and Fort Scott. Mr. Blaine’s house at Augusta, Maine, was broken into sometime ago, while he and his family were absent, and all his political and business correspondence and private papers, involving financial operations, which were in his library, were overhauled and a portion of them abstracted. The matter has always been kept a secret in the hope that the thief might be discovered, but he never has been. The supposition is that the robbery was perpetrated in the expectation of obtaining something among Mr. Blaine’s private papers which might be used to his political injury, if ever wanted. When the robbery was discovered the floor of the library was found to be littered with letters and papers which had evidently been carefully examined. Every drawer was found to have been ransacked and its contents either disturbed or dumped upon the floor. An explosion of gasoline took place in the grocery store of C. B. Zellus, at Frederick, Md.,J Monday evening. While the street was filled with people, called out by the alarm of fire. The large and heavy plate-glass windows were shivered, and the small pieces were sent with great force across the street. At the same time the whole brick front of the residence portion of the structure fell outward with a loud crash, followed by the almost entire demolition of the warehouse and back building of the establishment. In an instant the most agonizing shrieks and and screams were heard, and the hundreds of people who had gathered to see the fire ran in every direction. The. scene was sickening. The street, for a square in several , directions, presented the appearance of a bat-tle-field. Charles Cooie, a boy aged 14, and Win. Slocum, colored, were killed. Seven others were seriously injured and fully a hundred were more or less injured by flying glass and falling brick.

FOREIGN. John Bright is recovering from a severe illness. ' The Pope will send a brief to Ireland explaining his resc ript. The belief grows stronger that Em peror Frederick? will recover. The Emperor of Brazil continues to grow stronger under injections of caffeine. American, Belgian and French travelers are being stopped on the German frontier. Twenty-seven have been turned back at Avricourt. Gen. Boulanger took his first step in Parliament, Monday. He moved for the revision of the constitution and declared an urgency therefor. The General had no hesitancy in referring to the popular uprising in his favor, which was jeered by the Deputies. The motion of Boulanger was negatived by 377 to 186. The steamer Oceanic arrived at San Francisco from China and Japan, Sunday. Advices from Japan state that 230 houses were destroyed by a'conflagration on the Bth of May at Tourangeka, and at Kameka the next day 710 houses, one temple and a number of huts were burned. The extent of the loss is not given. i