Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. General Sheridan is getting well. Flagstaff, Aria., had a hundredrfhou-sand-dollar fire Monday. A destructive storm swept over several Western states on the fourth. Fire at Lake City, Mich., Wednesday destroyed the business portion. Loss $75,000, ; . -• ,'y Fire at Marysville, Cal., Thursday, destroyed the business portion. Loss, $200,000. The Cincinnati brewers’ strike, after lasting three months, was,on Friday, declared off. A cloud burst in Clinton and Jackson counties, lowa, Wednesday damaged the crops seriously. At Hamlin, N. Y., Wednesday, John Johnson accidentally killed his son. In anguish he suicided. It has just been made public that the postoffice at Albany, N. Y., was robbed of $3,526 on April 26th. The new Jewish orphan asylum at Cleveland, 0., costing $200,000, was formally dedicate!! Monday. The Adelaide silk mill boiler at Allentown, Pa., exploded Monday, killing three men and injuring three. It is expected that 5,000 members will take part in the Sons of Veterans’ parade, Aug. 12, at Wheeling, W. Va. David Clark and wife, of Sand wish, 111, suicided, Sunday, because of misfortune and inability to get along in the world.*—"- —— Harry C. Tucker, his father and sister, were drowned by the capsizing of their boat on Lake Johanna, near St. Paul, Minn., Thursday. At Louisville, Monday, George Guthman, aged twenty-one, suicided because Ida Beeker, aged said she was too young to many. Myer’s Opera House, at Paris, Tex., a new building, costing $60,000, collapsed, Sunday, on account of faulty workmanship, and is a total wreck. The Reading (Pa.) Hardware works were destroyed - by fire Monday night, entailing a loss of over $475,000. About 450 men are thrown out of employment. The Rock Island lines west of the Missouri River have been consolidated under the name of Chicago, Rock Island & Colorado, with a capitalization of $35,000,000. *7 _ . Heavy rains have caused bad railroad washouts in Pennsylvania, but no wrecks are reported. The high water will let loose 10,000,000 bushels of coal on the rivers.

The mother and sister of the murderer Brooks, who is to be hanged July 13,' for the inurder of Prellerat the Southern Hotel, reached St. Louis Monday to bid the young man farewell. R. P. Parrish, once a prosperous wholesale man of Louisville, and worth $700,000, committed suicide, Sunday, by taking morphine, because he could not pay a five-dollar board bill. Anarchist Conrad Ahlan hoisted the red flag over the stars and stripes on his saloon at Chicago on the fourth. A police officer gave him five minutes to have it in, and the bloody emblem disappeared. Near Pineville, Ky., Sunday night, James McGeorge and Bill Smith, special sheriff’s deputies, shot each other to death. They were sent to arrest some violators of the local whisky laws and got dniifk. 7 • ——- A telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania railroad at Wilkesbarre, Fit, msdier a mistake in givingorders and a collision of two passenger trains occurred Friday. About twenty persons were injured, none fatally, however. At Moulton, Lawrence county, Ala., Sunday night, Calvin Moody, colored, was lynched for the murder of his wife last Friday night. The lynching was done by a mob of 200 negroes, and is the first event of the kind in that State. A battery of boilers at the tannery of A. &J. Greteinger, Allegheny City, Pa., exploded Friday, fatally injuring Wpo. Wetzel the engineer, Chris. Neidt and L. L. Tovbie, and seriously injuring three others. The damage to property iA $20,000: I Gen. Sheridan has been removed to his summer home at Nonquitt, Mass. He was taken by the U. S. steamship Swatara,and several days were required,' owing to the rough sea requiring the ship to anchor. His general condition continues favorable. A. G. Campbell, Secretary of the Kansas Hity Elks Lodge, is $2,000 short in his accounts. An investigation has been in progress for some time, but the matter was kept quiet until Monday. Campbell is one of the best known and most popular men in the city. The Lodge will not prosecute him. • A stage running betweei Madefia and Hildreth, Cal., was stopped* Monday afsernoon by masked men. They jumped from behind rocks and compelled the express messenger to hand them his gun ' and then compelled him and the driver to hand over the express box, containing SIO,OOO in silver bullion. The robbers escaped. Several months ago Mr. and Mrs. L. . A. Breck. of Cleveland,were arrested for forging a will which made them heirs to the property of a peculiar old woman known as Martha Hail McDonald. Breck was a medical student and a politician. Monday he and his wife were sentenced to the penitentiary for four ' years each. The bodies of five men, riddled" with bullets from Winchester rifles, have

been found in the wilds of the Kinishi Mountains, Choctaw Nation, fifty miles from Denver 1 . They Are supposed to have been hunters from Texas. Fifty yards away was found another dead body supposed to be that of one of the attacking party. MisA Margaret Beecher, daughter of Colonel H. B. Beecher, of Orange, N. J., and granddaughter of Henry W. Beecher, was married on Saturday last to Arthur White, of New York. Adother granddaughter of Mr. Beecher, Miss Harriett Beecher Scoville, of- Stamford, Conn., was married last week to Dr. Spence C. Devan, United States Navyi ' While a man named Stokes and his wife were driving across a railroad trac)c, near Carrollton, Pa., Wendesday, they were struck by an east-bound passenger train and both almost instantly killed. Mrs. Stokes was thrown about forty feet, her body alighting in the Allegheny river. Every bone in her body was broken. She died instantly. Stokes was also fatally injured, and lived only a few minutes.

The general impression prevails that the telegraph operators are determined to avail themselves of the busy, rushing, restless activity and excitement of the Presidential year, and will ask reasonable concessions from the companies at a moment when they can not very well be 'ignored, as they were five years ago* when recognition was refused the committee appointed by the Brotherhood at that time. In the course of his weekly address before the Anti-Poverty Society, Sunday night, Dr. McGlynn said: “Some day there will be a tremendous revolution, which will eclipse the French uprising, in which the people will rise up in their wrath at interference of their dictators, and bayonet and club these monks, and priests, and archbishops, the pope, and cardinals. This is the way the Lord will deal with them; so I may leave them to His mercy.” This was wildly cheered. Mr. T. J. Vandergrift, of Jamestown, N. y.,one of the oldest and best inforined oil operators, says: “There is a well in Wood connty, Ohio, that if opened to its full capacity would flow ten thousand barrels of oil a day. There are several qT these bridled monsters in the Ohio ffeld. They are shut in because of the inability of the pipe line companies to take care of all the oil that they would produce if permitted to yield at their full capacity.” Mr. Vandergrift probably referred to the “DuCat” well, west of Portage.

The Union Bank officials of Provi deface have received word by cable that the whole bundle of securities, bills receivable and other property stolen by Charles A. Pitcher, the defaulting teller, have been recaptured in London. Pitcher had mailed them to “J. A. Roberts,” his assumed name, and believed them safe from the bank, and that it was in his power to keep their hiding place a secret until the bank would be ready to compromise and come to terms on a basis of Pitcher’s holding onto $150,000 cash. His stealings aggregated $700,000. Near Rising Sun, Miss., bad blood had existed for some time between S. H. Whitworth, a planter and merchant, and Henry McCarty, another local merchant. Whitworth, McLean and Hoskins on one side and Henry McCarty, P. H. Ivey and Sam Austin on the other side, metr Saturday afternoon. The first three entered the store of MeCarty, armed with Winchesters and pistols. Some words brought on firing, and Ivey and Austin were instantly killed. Henry MeCarty is missing and is supposed to have been killed. Whitworth and Ben McLean are badly wounded. At the meeting of District Assembly, No. 48, Knights of Labor of Cincinnati, 0., held Sunday afternoon,Master Workman Kavanaugh announced that Recording Secretary Jesse S. Jones was defaulter to the amount of several thousand dollars, and had left the city. The news created a great sensation. A committee of five was appointed to overhaul the books of the district and ascertain the exact amount of the defalcation. Jones was formerly a blacksmith, but had been secretary of the district for three or four terms. He has, of late, been leading a fast' life. John Bolch, of Fairfield county, S. C., died Sunday from hydrophobia caused by the bite of a cat. Bojch experienced no ill effects from the bite, and did not think of hydrophbbia in connection with the matter until Thursday of last week, when he was suddenly taken ill, experiencing great difficulty in breathing. When a glass of water was handed him he went into convulsions, and the physician’s skill failed to afford him any relief. During the intervals between the convulsions the , unfortunate young man was perfectly rational, and often pitiously begged his friends to kill him and end his sufferings. Henry W. Moore, managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has eloped with the wife of John W. Norton, the theatrical manager, They took with them about $20,000 in money and jewels, which Norton had given her. Moore is an Englishman, who game here several years ago, and has made rapid progress in journalism. He has a wife arid one child, who are now at Manitou Springs, Col. Mrs. Norton was formerly Emma Stockman, an actress, who supported John McCulldugh one season. The two families have been very intimate, and i the elopement was brought about by

Norton’s discovery of his wife’s infidelity with Moore. FOREIGN. The Theatre dee Boufifes, at Bourdeaux, France, burned, Tuesday. Loss, 1,000,000 francs. „ Last reports from Stanley are that his camp was suffering from lack of food and swamp maladies. Bismarck is workings scheme to marry one of King William’s sisters to the Czarevitch of Russia. . In the libel suit of O’Donnell against the London Times for libel a verdict has been returned in favor of defendant. The lower classes of the English people are very much exercised over a pending bill, which proposes to stop_ all liquor traffic on Sunday. An immense meeting was held at Hyde Park, Sunday, to protest against it. The English Tory sentiment is that Parnell’s denials are insufficient, and that he will rest under suspicion until he clears himself in court. Davitt, in a speech, challenged the government to put him and Parnell in the dock. As Prince Alexander, of Battenburg, late ruler of Bulgaria, was driving from Heilegenberg into the Stattback valley, Sunday, his horse shied and the carriage was hurled from the road down the side of the mountain. Prince Alexander was thrown out and fell a distance of forty feet, when he grasped some shrubs and by their aid escaped with slight injuries. The horse was terribly mangled and killed, and the carriage was dashed to pieces.

Official dispatches from St. Petersburg state that M. De Giers, the Russian Prime Minister, has informed the British embassador that after December 17 the Bulgarians may do anything and everything they please, from cutting each other’s throats to declaring their country an empire. Russia, M. De Giers declared, will not moW a finger to prevent them from following their own inclinations, and will wash her hands of the whole concern. The embassador is of the opinion that Russia does not -intend to provoke war.