Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Plant City, Fla., has two cases of yellow fever. 1 .Crop prospects in central Illinois are very encouraging. C. C. Wilson, a banker at Atlanta, Ga., has disappeared. The sub-treasufy at New York disbursed 173,000,000 Monday. George Wilson was hanged at Albion, N. Wednesday, for wife murder. The Agricultural Department reports good prospects of large apple and {teach crops. Henry Gauss A Son’s box factory, St. Louis, burned Wednesday night. Loss, SIOO,OOO. For ten days the Western Union sent out of Chicago over 6,000,000 words concerning the convention. Rain in Nebraska Tuesday, was the heaviest ever known. Bridges were washed away and railroads are in an unsafe condition. . A jury at Port Huron, Mich., has awarded Alice Potts $20,000 damages from Emily Willard for alienating Lewis Pott’s affections. Rev. Charles Wheeler and wife, of Winchenden, Mass., were instantly killed, Saturday afternoon, by a train crushing into their carriage. The Senate committee on the judiciary has decided to report back the nomination of Melville W. Fuller, to be Chief Justice, without any recommendation. Hon. John M. Glover, member of Congress for the Eight Missouri District, has filed suit for $50,000 against the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, of St. Louis, for libel. The State vetinarian has killed three horses in the vicinty of Robinson, 111., affected with glanders. It is feared this contagious disease will spread in that locality.

Two farmers named Startzman and .Foster were killed by lightning about a mile ""from Culbertson, Neb., while on their way home during Wednesday night’s rain storm. Fire at Fort Apache, A. T. r Monday, destroyed the entire quartermaster and commissary supplies. The estimated loss to the Government, including the buildings, is SIOO,OOO. The argument for the defense in the case of ex-Treasurer Tate of Kentucky, is one of sympathy,viz: That it is better for the State to lose $247,000 than to impoverish a number of good citizens. The Democrats of the Eleventh Congressional District have nominated Hon. A. N. Martin, of Wells county, for Congress. “Mr. Martin was at ode time reporter of the State Supreme Court. The President attended the commencement exercises of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Afterward he " drove to Monticello, the old home of Thomas Jefferson, returningto Washington late at night The Pittsburg iron-worker’s strike is now on and all the mills are idle. The trouble arose from the refusal of the employes to continue present wages. From present indications the struggle will be protracted and bi tter. Four steamships landed 1,506 immigrants at Castle Garden Saturday. The Etruria, from Liverpool, brough 265; the City of Richmond, from Liverpool, 612; the Polaria, from Hamburg, 310; and the La Gascogne, from Havre, 819. John Risbee and Wylie Lee, two colored men, who were arrested at Chetopa, Kansas for the shooting of City Marshal Wm. Bentley and Deputy Ed Martin, were lynched Wednesday by a mob of several hundred citizens of Chetopa. Patrick Coffee, a worthless drunkard, shot Miss Agness Smith, Sunday evening, in Jersey City, and then turned the pistol upon himself. Both will die. Coffee, who has a wife and grown-up children, was infatuated with Miss Smith. A Newport (Ky.) inventor claims to have produced a smelting furnace by which he can produce from common clay alumium, 95 J per cent, pure, at a cost of one dollar a pound, while the present cost of alumium is one dollar an ounce. , At a green corn dance Saturday night, near Eufala, I. T., Marshals Philips and McLoughlin were killed by Wesley and Wattie Barrett, desperado brothers, whom the officers tried to arrest. Wattie was fatally injured. During a practice game at Pittsburg, Monday morning, Captain Dunlaprof the Pittsburg ball team, was struck in face with a hard hit ball and his right jaw broken. He will be unable to play for several weeks. A scaffolding on a nearly completed ten-story building of the New York Life Insurance Company, at Kansas City, gave way about noon, Thursday, and precipitated three bricklayers to the sidewalk GusCliffordand " Wm. Trendin were killed outright and Dick Thorn lived about fifteen minutes. Rud Hynica, ref unding Merk in the Cincinnati Auditor’s office, is charged with issuing false refunders to persons not entitled to them, and an investiga'of the matter is now going on. Hynica was a prominent member and director of the Blaine Club, and was present at -the lateChicago,coaveation. Gov. Oglesby has appointed two women to the State Board pf Education — ■ Mrs. Ella S. Yon ng, Assistant SuperinItendent of the city schools of Chieago, land Mrs. Mary* F. Feitshans, widow of ■Professor F. R. Feitshans, of Springfield. ■These are the first appointments of ■women to this board in Illinois. ■Mr-L. «.g +

A special from Traverse City, Mich., says: “While going home from Kingsley, last night, after selling a team of horses, Theodore Carter, a farmer, was attacked By three brothers named Droste, evidently on robbery intent. He shot one dead, fatally injured another, and flunks he got some lead into the third, who escaped.” Tuesday morning about 6 o’clock, a terrific boiler explosion at Roger’s coal mines, twenty miles east of Cincinnati, occurred, killing outright the fireman, William Burnett and slightly scalding engineer James Kimlo. The brick walls of the engine-house w’ere completely swept away. The accident will close down the mines for a time. The Grand Jury has returned four indictments against James W. Tate, exState Treasurer of Kentucky, for the crime of embezzlement. The total amount set out in the indictment is $404,085.85, dated from January 1, 1878, to January 1, 1886, leaving the period between 1886 and the time of Tate’s flight unprovided for. The Chicago Women’s Club tendered a reception to Susan B. Anthony, the Baroness Gripenberg of Finland, Mrs. Isabella Beecher-Hooker and Mrs. Clara Benick Colby, editor of tne Women’s Tribune, of Beatrice, N>., Wednesday night. In the course of her remarks Miss Anthony said she was willing to retire from the active work as a woman suffragist in favor of some one younger* Defaulter Pitcher, of the Union Bank, of Providence, -R. 1., was arrested at Montreal, Tuesday evening. This prisoner had bought a ticket on the Allen Line, and intended to leave Wednesday morning for England. He was taken to his room and searched. Detective Kellert states that securities and cash amounting to $700,000 were found on him. The prisoner took his arrest coolly.

At daylight, Friday, one Wardle, an ex-conductor of the Houston & Texas Central railroad, boarded the South bound train of the Inter-National road at Milan. He shot and killed Sam Arnold, the colored porter of the train, who was asleep on one of the seats in the smoking car. He then attempted to shoot Corcoran, but his pistol missed fire. After a sharp struggle he was overpowered and left at Rockdale, a raving maniac. President Cleveland has vetoed the bill introduced in the House by Mr. Cheadle to pension James G. W. Herdy, of Lebanon, Ind. Mr. Cheadle, after introducing the measure, explained its merits to the House and Senate committees, and the reports upon it were unanimous. Mr. Hardy had an arm broken w’hile in line of duty, but there is no existing law under which he can secure a pension, and Lit was necessary to secu re it t brough a special act of Congress. A special from Wheeling, W. Va., says a sensation has been caused there by the arrest of Robert B. Burt, of the extensive retail drug firm of R. B. Burt & Co., chaged with setting fire to the building occupied as a place of business by his firm and as a residence by himself. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out by Mr. Falloure, a wealthy neighbor of Mr. Burt. Falloure had been arrested for the same crime, but was discharged, as he could not be directly connected with the fire. The attempt to fasten the crime upon Mr. Burt creates the most profound astonishment. ~ — ——

Atan early hour Sunday morning burglars entered the office of the Armour Cold Storage and Packing Company, of Birmingham, Ala., and, slipping up behind C. E. Avery, cashier, who had been detained at his books, sand-bagged him into unconsciousness, took the safe key from his pocket, ransacked the drawers of money and valuables, said to amount to SIOO,OOO, and put the books and papers on the floor, and set fire to them. The flames attracted the attention of belated passer S-by, who removed Avery and saved the building. Avery will recover. His assailants were black faced white men or negroes.

FOREIGN. Prince Bismarck thinks there will not be war in Europe unless France starts trouble. General Diaz’s re-election for another term as President of Mexico has been assured., —A A vessel, supposed to be an emigrant ship, foundered in a storm off the Cape of Good Hope, on June 4. All hands were lost. ■ i : .

Queen Victoria has given £70,000, the balance pf ,the women’s jubilee offering, to St. Catharine’s Training Hospital for Nurses for the London poor. Official reports of the Russian crops are favorable and indicate a yield above the average. The " winter wheat prospects are very promising. The spring crops are also in excellent condition. The Mexican-freight depot and adjoining buildings at El Paso del Norte burned, Wednesday night. Seventy freight cars were also destroyed, a large amount of freight being burned. Loss, $200,000. The people of Seoul, The capital of Corea, are in open insurrection. They have beheaded nine government officers in the streets, and wild evcitement pre-.. vails. Foreigners are seeking refuge at the various consulates. It is said the Chinese instigated the trouble,' A.J M-. disheartened at the result of the subscriptions to the new lottery. loan for the Panama Canal. The French peasants are the strongest friends of the enter-

prise and have supported the loan. The subscription falls below half the amount required. The fiftieth anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria was generally observed throughout England. At Windsor, bells were rang and royal salutes Salutes were fired at the various stations at noon. A grand state dinner was given at night at Windsor Castle in honor of the coronation.

The property destroyed by the recent fires at Sundsvall and Umoa, Sweden, was valued at 45,000,000 kroner. Twelve thousand persons were rendered homeless by the flames. King Oscar is. visiting the districts, and is engaged in relieving the wants of the sufferers. Houses, forests and standing crops on farms in other districts were burned. The Exchequer Court case of the Crown against J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Mass., to recover $.386,000 penalties and the confiscated goods owned by that .firm, and valued at $78,000, was dismissed, Wednesday, by Chief Justice Richie, of the Supreme Court, because it was the result of a conspiracy organized by customs officers at Montreal and a discharged employe of the Ayers.

The town of Umea, on the Gulf of Bothnia, has been partly burned. The damage at Sundsvall and Umea will reach $5,000,000. Immense tracts of forest land have been burned over. A drought has prevailed for a long time, rendering the wood very dry. This condition, and the prevalence of wind storms, made the flames spread with great fierceness and rapidity. The Irish bishops have published a series of resolutions explaining in detail the present position of the land question and expressing the opinion that unless parliament immediately applies a really effective measure to protect tenants from oppression, exactions and arbitrary eviction, the most disastrous consequences to public order and tlje safety of the people must almost inevitably ensue.