Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. The thermometer was 102° in the shade at Nebraska City, Neb., Thursday. There weYe twenty-eight heat prostrations and four deaths in New York and Brooklyri Sunday. Edward Eglofl and Mr. Charles Sanders were drowned by the capsizing of a sail-boat in the harbor at Chicago Sunday. Nicholas Gerkin and D. B. Glahn were drowned-off Greenville, L. 1., Sunday, the latter while trying to save the former. T The Sloop Millie was overturned Saturday in Boston harbor, drowning J. J. Gannon and Mrs. C. F. and Miss Katie T. Tripp. An explosion of fireworks at Rondout, N. Y., burned a store, causing a loss of $22,000; the smoke also suffocated Mrs. Rebecca Rice. The works of the Salem, Mass., Lead Company; together with its contents and machinery, were burned Thursday. Loss, $200,000; fully insured. The Supreme" Lodge, A. 0. U. W. t is in session at Louisville. The order now has a membership of 198,307, a net gain of 21,788 during the year, and a bahmce of general funds of $72,723,62. Miss Fannie Gordon, eldest daughter; of Governor Gordon, was married at Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday evening ,to Burton Smith, a prominent young attorney. Miss Gordon is a great belle of the South and North. The Supreme Lodge, Knight of Pythias, Saturday adjourned sine die. It refused to organize a Knight of Pythias Sisterhood but thought the same purpose could be accomplished if the women established and governed their own order. —A resolution —of censure Wits’ adopted against ex-Adjt. Gen. Joseph Dow’dall, of Ohio, for statements concerning Supreme Chancellor Douglas and Major-general Carnahan. The conclave will be held at Milwaukee, on the second Tuesday in June, 1890. A special from Bird’s eye Ind., gives particulars of the sudden death of Miss Josie Carroll, under the most unusual circumstances. Miss Carroll had gone out after supper to visit a near neighbor, and he younger brother and some other boys conceived the idea of frightening her with a spook upon her return through a little dark strip of woods. About 9 o’clock the young lady started home, and when she had reached the spot one of the boys jumped from ambush,covered with a sheet, and by curious gyrations of his arms formed a hideous scare-crow in her path. The affrighted girt uttered a shrill shriek and fell insensible to the ground. The boys, frightened at what they had done, ran away, and when help came to the girl, a few moments later, she was found in convulsions, and died in thirty minutes. The affair caused a profound sensation, as Miss Carroll "was a beautful, accomplished and very popular young schoolteacher. The boys, hearing the result of their foolish prank, left the neighborhood and have not since been seen.

FOREIGN. The natives of Corea are threatening. All the consulates are guarded by soldiers. An American man-of-war has gone to Corea. - ™4— Detailed accounts of the gales which occurred on the coast of Iceland last month, show that 400 French fishermen were drowned. Thirty vessels werer wrecked. ; ' ’• Advices from Zanzibar to the Journal des Debats says “there is little doubt that Stanley is dead. Families of persons who’ accompanied the expedition have worn mourning for several weeks. It is believed that Tip poo Tib has taken revenge for Stanley having thwarted him in his efforts to continue the slave traffic.”