Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. • 43L Louis is having a. telephone war. There are still Some snow banks in Maine. ( General Sherman is laid up with rheumatism in the hack. ‘ 1 Four steamships unloaded 2,721 iinmigranta at Castle Garden, Friday. Fire at lainsburg. Michigan., Wednesday, night, caused a l<»ss of SIOO,OOO. The Atlas paper mill at Appleton, Wis., burned Friday. Loss $150,000. Gould s illness is due to chronic insomnia, from which he suffers greatly, Three Jives were lost in a burning tenement house at Lowell, Mass., Monday, McGarigle, the Chicago boodlet, is luxuriating at Bauff hotsprings, N. W. T. A thunder storm about BedloW Falls, Vt, Thursday, caused considerable loss in crolps. Rev. James Freeman Clarke, the distinguished Unitarian divine, died at Boston, Sunday. 11 , The journeymen bakers of St Louis strike because the bosses refuse to recognize their union. The brewery strike in Chicago is off, the strikers owning to their defeat. The cost to them has been 1100,000. Forest fires on Conception Bay, N. F., have burned many houses. At Leule Bay a woman and two children perished. Tony Pastor’s theater and Tammany Hall, New York,, were completely wrecked by a fire, "Wednesday. The loss is $500,000. Mcßride, the Postmaster at Livingstone, M. T., has absconded with several hundred dollars belonging to the government and others. An overturning ladle of metal at the Pennsylvania steel works, bcranton. Pa., Friday, burned Wilson Shafer fatally, and four others seriously. James Foster, colored, charged with rape upon an eight-year-old white child near Henderson, Ky., was taken from jail at that place and lynched.

There is considerable comment over the fact that 4—11—44 came out in the Louisville lottery Wednesday. It is considered an omen of good hick to Cleveland, and will gain him many votes among the negroes. John B. Pankey, of Leavenworth, Kas., before leaving home on a recent visit, placed S6OO in a chimney crack for safe keeping. When he returned the money Was missing, and there is no clew as to the thief. ■' ' So far the efforts to punish violators of the Sunday liquor law in Cincinnati have failed because the -juries refuse to convict. The cases will be taken to tlie Common Pleas Court, where a different system of selecting juries obtains. An old man named Rathbaker at Monticello, lowa, attempted to chastise his son. The boy ran. The father gave chase, and having captured him, knocked him dow’n and eut his head off with an axe. The father has not as yet been apprehended. -s No Americans ever created so great a social sensation in England as the Vanderbilts. All the Mackay splendors sink into insignificance beside them, and their siege of London was short, since the whole social world promptly surrendered to these monarchs of millions. The boiler of a portable engine in the Union Depot Company's yards, at St. Paul, Minn., exploded Wednesday evening, killing Philip Fischer, John T. Duffy and Hugh M. Nevin, besides injuring James H. Duffy, John T. Nevin, John Mohign, Ed. Wallace, McCormick and Edward L: Imsted.

Allace Woodhall, extradited from England on the charge of forging the name of John Gile to $25,000 worth of bonds, was discharged Friday, the signatures proving to be genuine. She was arrested for another offense, and her counsel threatens international trouble if she is not The Boiler Makers’ and Iron Ship Builders’ Union of San Francisco has decided that its members must not work on Eastern or foreigri-constructed or stationary-made boilers on the ground that they are dangerous because of “inferior workmanship and poor material used in their construction.’’ / At Friday’s session of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers the resolution to extend fraternal greetings to the Knights of Labor iron workers,also in sessioh at Pittsburg, Were rejected, The Knights of Labor are indignant at the Refusal of the Amalgamated Association to return greeting. . - At.Friday’s session of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers the resolution to extend fraternal greetings to the Knigh of Labor iron workers, also in session at Pittsburg, were rejected. The Knights of Labor are indignant at the refusal of the Amalgamated . Association to return ing*The Boston Herald says that for a period of twenty years there has been carried on a systematic plan ol embezzling goods from one of the largest printing concerns in that city, and tltal a thorough investigation by detectives is -tronr^n-progress, which threatensTo ~re-’ suit in the arrest of many of its oldest employes. The lowest estimate of the t value of goods stolen is $200,000, T. Harrison Garrett, a brother of Robert Garrett, and manager of the banking firm of Robert Garrett & Sons, of Baltimore, was drowned, Thursday night, in the Patapsco river. His yacht, the

Gleam, in which he and a party of friends were coqdng to Baltimore, from Annapolis, was run down off Seven-Foot Knoll, by the steamer Joppa, and sunk, being struck amidships and almost cut in two. All hands on the Gleam were rescued except Mr. Garrett. Jeremiah G. Sinclair, a postal clerk on the Boston & Bangor Road, was murdered in his car on Saturday night. The only persons shown to have been with Sinclair ip the ear are Postal Clerks <). G Sellen, of Massachussetta, andS. Lyman Hayes, of New Hampshire, who had run for years With Sinclair, the latter having been on the road fourteen years. They are under arrest, and it is rumored that Hayes has made statements inplicating Sellen as the one perpetrating the deed. 1 The progress of the manufacturing industries of the country, as reported, for the week ending June 9, show 74 manufacturing companies, capital stock, $27,534,(M)0; 21 mining companies, stock $25,025,000; 63 mills, etc., $2,502,000; four railroad, $1,300,000; 13 bridges, $1,064,000; 37 churches, $1,115,000; seven wateY wbfks, $1,210,744; 222 buildings, $733,200; nine electric light companies, $957,000; four large gas companies, $238,000. The British bark Balaklava arrived at San Francisco, Tuesday from London after a remarkable long voyage of one year and seventy-four days. Her misfortunes were many. There is not a sailor on board who shipped on her from England. Ten sailors were washed overboard and drowped in a storm off Cape Horn, and while at Valparaiso for repairs the remainder of the crew deserted. The bark was again caught in a storm after leaving that port and lost two more men. A dispatch from Fort Yates, Dakota, says: Several persons were killed in the great tempest, Sunday, by lightning and flying debris. Those so far identified are Shell King, the celebrated Ipdian chief, and his son. A fanner living two miles south was found <jead in his field, half a mile from the point at which his house was located. The building had been completely wrecked, and it is supposed the man had been carried to the point where found by the wind. Mattie Dambrowski, a girl of thirteen, living at a settlement six miles south, has not been seen since the storm struck that point, and it is believed she was blown into the river and drowned. The loss among the Indians is especially severe, as hundreds of them had everything they had swept away by the winds.

FOREIGN. Lord Stanley, the new Governor General of Canada, arrived at Ottawa, Monday. The contract for the Eads Tehauntepec ship railway has been let, the work to be completed within five years. It is announced that the whole line of the Nicaragua Canal will be located by June 10. Eighty horses, were burned to death in the destruction of the Montreal street car stable Friday morning. A cyclone at Gronda, Nicaragua, June 2, destroyed many houses. A train was derailed, killing five persons. J The Novosti of St. Petersburg, publishes an account of Systematic piracy on the Russian Baltic coast. It says that false light-houses have been buik which lead vessels 1 astray and run them aground. One of these false > beacons was discovered recently a few miles off Beval. Strong measures will be inaugurated to apprehend the pirates. The Carnegie CoffChing party lefttfie Hotel Metropolis, London, this morning at 11 o’clock for a porposed tour of England and Scotland. Among the party were Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Miss G. Hamilton, Dr. Eaton and Walter Damrosch, the young conductor of New York. They sfarted with fine weather, and a large crowd of Americans in their coach-and-four. The party proposes to be gone twenty days, winding up at Chimy Castle, Scotland, which Mr Carnegie has rented for the. season. Mr. Blaine was in excellent spirits and health and appeared to be quite active.