Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

C . DOMESTIC. Three pleasure seekers were drowned at Baltimore, Sunday, by the capsizing of a row boat. Small-pox has broken out in the New York city asylum. A large nnmber of • patients have been exposed. Verres W. Smith, son-in-law of Horace Greeley, is in jail in New York for defrauding a hotel of his board. A. J. Streeter, the United Labor candidate for President, has just promulgated a lengthy letter of acceptance. The lockout of iron workers has about ended, the mills signing the amalgamated scale as fixed by the employes. Phonograms of Gladstone’s speech and Patti’B song, taken in London for Edison,' arrived at Menlo Park by mail, Monday. At Springfield, 0., Thomas Perfect, a prominent citizen, while eating dinner, choked to death on a mouthful of potatoes. The’ Grant Locomotive-works, of Paterson, N. J., have been compelled to shut down, being unable to compete with similar establishments elsewhere. Six persons—three men and.three wo-men-were drowned near Fort Smith, Ark., Sunday, while crossing the river in a row boat They Were returning from a dance. Twenty-three hundred teachers from all parts of the United States are in attendance on the Teachers’ National Association, which began its session at San Francisco Tuesday. The whites of Crittenden county, Ark., it is alleged, are in danger from the negroes, who outnumber them five to one. It is claimed the white people are to be driven from the country. Nearly 200 r members of Rev. Dr. Talmage’s Church embarked for Europe, Saturday, on the steamship Servia. Dr. Talmage’s family accompanied the party, though he himself does not go. Floods on the Monongahela river in Pennsylvania and Valley rivers in West Virginia mines, last week, did damage to the amount of |<1,000,000. In places people were compelled to flee for their lives. Fatalities, however, were few. Three brothers, Dr. Bass Rawson, of Findlay, 0., Dr. L. I. Rawson, of Fremont, 0., and Dr. Secretary Rawson, of Des Moines, lowa, aged respectively 89, 84 and 92 years, are still regularly practicing medicine in their respective localities.

Fred Gleason, aged twenty, John Williamson,. aged eighteen, and Louis Burham, aged sixteen, were drowned, Sunday afternoon, at Wilkes’ Lake, Mich., while bathing. Gleason got into deep water and the other two were drowned while attempting to save him. Owing to the fact that several members signed the Amalgamated scale without consent of the Association the Iron Manufacturers’ Association is likely to be dissolved. The members of the Amalgamated Association concede that this would be a bad move both for employer and employe. Charles H. Wight, for the past eleven years Assistant Superintendent of the' mailing department of the Detroit post office, was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of purloining money from the mails. Inspector Smith, who made the asrest,- claims that, Wight has stolen letters ever since he has been connected with the postoffice, about thriteen yearr. A decoy letter was found on his person. At Coney island, ten miles up the river from Cincinnati, Saturday night at 7 o’clock, Samuel Young made an ascent of 1,000 feet in a hot air balloon, and let go to make a descent in his parachute. The parachute did not open for 900 feet, and he w r ent down into the river and sank twenty-five feet to the bottom. When he came up he was rescued by boatmen, unhurt. Commander-in-Chief Rea,of the Grand Army of the Republic, Monday, issued General Order No. 9, calling attention of members to the eleventh chapter of rules and regulations, which provide -for the non-partisan character of the order, and follow’s it up with a special caution to the veterans to avoid the appearance of partisanship by refraining from wearing G. A. R. uniforms at political meetings. Fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in a saw mill at Alpena, Mich., and spread so rapidly that it was soon beyond control. All the buildings for a space of three blocks wide and half a mile long were consumed, causing a loss of about $300,000. Fifteen hundred people are homeless and many are seriously hurt and burned. Mrs. L. McLain Was so Jaadly burned that she will die. Sixty Canadian laborers who have been employed by the Michigan Grand Trunk at Port Hurn, Fort Gratiot and other points on the St Clair River, crossing to and from their homes morning and night, have been compelled Jiy Customs Collector Ward to shoulder their dinner buckets and cross to Canada, to return no more. This is done under the provisions of the alien labor law, providing that no foreign. Jaborerscan be brought to this country, under contract for services to any eompany or individual. The two grown daughters of Jacob Nye, a . well-to-do farmer living eight miles south of Princeton, 111., have been adjudged insane and will be sent to Jacksonville for treatment. The father and mother and daughter are also insane. The family of five were all strickeir~with the malady on the" same day, and physicians are unable to

account for the cause, as all were well as usual a few days ago, and there has been no unusual excitement in the neighborhood. They spend their time singing and praying, and seem tb fear ifeing poisoned. An accident of unparalleled horror occurred Thursday evening near Gridley, a small town near Bloomington, 111. Miss Lena beautiful girl of twenty, daughter cf Rudy Witzig, a rich farmer, was driving a horse hay rake in a meadow. The horse ran away and Miss Witzig was dragged over a barbed wire fence. Her whole face was torn from her neck to her forehead, and left with her bonnet hanging to the fence. Her lower jaw was torn off, and, attached to it, the tongue. She was yet alive at 4 o’clock p. m. Friday, and able to mjike known her feeling and wants by writing. Both jugular veins are left exposed. Her father., refuses to obtain surgical aid, and even refused to allow a surgeon to enter the house. Words fail to express the hoirors of her condition. A small riot occured Wednesday night in the Kinzie-street “Q” railroad yards, at Chicago, in wnich two men were injured. A heavily kiaded Burlington freight train was Ijeing backed down into the St. Paul Yards on Kinzie street, between Western avenue and Seymour street. Some 200 men had congregated there who are said to have been mostly striking Burlington engineers and engineers from the St. Paul and Northwestern Roads. As the Burlington engine’s headlight appeared the cry of “scabs” was raised by some hot heads. It found willing response and the engine was speedily surrounded and a fusilade of coupling links and pins, hastily picked up from the tracks, discharged at the men in the cab. At the same time a switch was thrown open, and as .the engine ran off the rails into the ditch the cab was nearly demolished by the shower of missiles hurled at it by the angry men. The engine was left upright in the ditch, the cars behind it being derailed, and the track blocked for a long, distance. When the rioters saw the damage they had done they fled. The engineer and fireman were foundin the cab injured, arid were taken to the county hospital for treatment. Their injuries are pronounced serious.

FOREIGN. It is reported that insurgents at Post au Prince have burned 500 houses. Col. Sir Francis De Winton, president of the Emin Bey relief committee, in an interview with the King of the Belgians, expressed the belief that the white pasha reported to have arrived at Bahr el-Ghazel is Henry M. Stanley. The Pope has issued an encyclical letter. In it the Pope says he has heard with regret that excited meetings have been held, at which inconsiderate and dangerous opinions regarding the recent papal decree have been uttered, even the authority of the decree itself being unspared. He has seen with pain forced interpretations put on the decree and statements made that it was prepared without sufficient inquiry having previously been made. The Pope, strongly denying this assumption, states that the decree was based upon the most complete information; that previous to its issuance he held interviews with Irish bishops on the subject, and sent a tried and trusted delegate to Ireland to inquire into and report on the true condition of affairs. His Holiness reiterates his affection for Alie Irish people, and says he has always urged them to keep within the bounds of justice and right. The whole system of the plan of campaign and boycotting is condemned as unlawful. The letter causes intense dissatisfaction. At Bray the people left the church during the reading of the letter. Late advices from Leon, Mexico,, the principal scene of the great flood, says that masses of people are packed in stables and every available place of shelter,

averaging one person to less than a square yard of space, with piles of flag matting laid on the ground for beds, and a few miserable rags for cover. All able bodied men have been forced away to work by the Government. Rations of bread and meat are issued, and et ery thing possible done to relieve the suffering. Children up to twelve years of age are among these masses, without a thread of clothing, and at night are wrapped in—whatever rags the family have for covering. Anything whatever of food or clothing, no matter how poor, is received with extreme gratitude.