Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. The patent feather manufacturers have- combined to raise prices. It is said that John Mackey lias sold his cable lines to Jay Gould for $11,000,000. The reception.to M*.,JBlaine when he reaches New York promises to be a great affair. Hon. T. Davidson, Grand Master of the National Grange, died at Jackson, Miss., Tuesday. deaths from hydrophobia occurred in Chicago. Ip one of the cases the suffering was excruciating. v Ives, the C., H. A D. wrecker, indicted at Cincinnati for perjury, is cutting a wide swath as a “swell” at Niagara, on the Canadian side. Henry Goddar, who has collected several thousand dollars by representing himself as a pension examiner, has been arrested at Pittsburg. A meeting of iron manufacturers of the Mahoning Valley was held at Youngstown, 0.. and it was resolved to continue the lockout indefinitely. At New York Nicol, Cowlishaw & Co., importers of upholstery, have made an assignment. They claimed $500,000 surplus, and the failure caused surprise. The Association of Manufacturers of Iron, Steel and Nails has practically gone to pieces, but this will have no effect on the Amalgamated Association. Fanny Davenport, the actress, has been granted an absolute divorce by Judge Barrett, of the New York Supreme Court, from Edwin \V. Price, her husband. /

Rev. E. P. Roe, the novelist, died at Newburg, N. Y., Friday. He. was born in 1838, and after the war entered the ministry. He has written many popular novels. Gen. Thomas L. Young, elected Lieu-tenant-Goverrtor of Ohio with R. B. Hayes, in 1875, and who tilled the office of Governor after Hayes became President, died at Cincinnati, Friday. A company with a capital of $1,000,000 will develop twenty thousand acres of iron and timber lands in Cherokee county, Texas. The product of the iron beds, they say, cannot be excelled. r The New York Legislature, Friday, abolished the use of machinery in the penal institutions of the State. Convicts will only be employed at hand labor upon goods required in the prison system. The Industrial Home and School founded by the late Francis A. Drexel’s daughters near Bristol, Pa., was formally opened Thursday, 200 boys being transferred to the school from the St. John’s Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia. 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. A fire at Chicago, Wednesday, caused a loss of $215,000. The fire originated in 1 the magnificent five story building on the corner of Wabash avenue and Mon- • roe street, and was occupied by the Chicago Carpet Company and other firms. The stock was partially insured. Mrs. jlohn A. Logan is at the home of her son at Youngstown, 0., completely prostrated on account of the false reports published all over the country to the effect that General Logan’s remains were to be removed from Washington. It is feared she will not recover.

Another great oil well has been discovered near Findlay, 0. It is estimated that the flow at present is from 7,000 to 10,000 barrels per day. The well will probably produce 3,000 barrels when the first pressure is off. Another well on the samejarm yields 10,000 barrels daily. The Secretary of the Illinois Board of Agriculture has received information of the action of farmers of Crawford county, who have resolved not to raise any wheat, barley or rye for the next three years, in an effort to exterminate the chinch bug. These farmers will exert their influence to this end with the fanners of adjoining counties. The ship Farragut, with an assorted cargo valued at $120,000, from Calcutta for New York, has been 185 days out, and is given up for lost, and her crew of twenty-two Boston seamen, under command of Captain Richard F. Hardwick, of Malden,are believed to have perished, together with the Captain’s wife and daughter. On Friday a collision on the Lehigh & Susquehanna railroad resulted in the death of conductor George Kaiser. Five train hands were badly injured. Near Barbourville, Ky., on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and work train collided, killing W. F. Shanks and R. Coleman, and injuring two others. . ' __ Mrs. Logan has Anally determined that the body of Gen. Logan shall be permanently buried at Washington. She de-__afred-te-hftve-4he-remaing buried in- IlHnois, stipulating that a $250,800 monument should be erected to his memory. The raising of this sum seeming to be beyond the bounds of possibility, she decrees that the body shall be buried at the Soldiers’ Home at Washington. The richest discovery- of gold ever made outside the Comstock lode waa made at the Lake Superior Iron Company’s shaft, seven miles from Ishperning, Mich., Friday morning. Three ~hundredpomidsof"qnartz,cat f rylHgfree

gold at the rate of over $60,000 to the ton, was uncovered by one blast, and brought into the city, where it is creating the wildest excitement. The quartz is worth fully SIO,OOO. Disastrous results followed an attempt Friday morning, to pull down an old building at Chicago, While the work of demolition was going on, one of the brick walls facing North Clark street collapsed prematurely. A number of persons were caught by the falling mass. A contractor in l charge,- Charles Wick* 1 ler, was killed outright. John Lecher, nr laborer, Suffered a similar fate. Ten other persons were taken out alive, some very severely injured, but none, it appears fatally. A terrific rain storm and cloudburst occurred at Wheeling, W. Va., Thursday. The Ohfo.river rose three feet in five minutes. The Wheeling & Elin Grove railroad was swept away for miles and the road covered six feet with water. The damage to crops, fences and buildings cannot be computed. Twelve persons were drowned at Wheeling by the giving way of a' bridge. About , thirty persons were precipited into the stream, but by heroic efforts all but twelve were rescued. Several other fatalities are reported. .

A special from Ellensburg, W. T., says a fire Monday afternoon destroyed the coal-mining town of Roslyn, twentyeight miles from that place, rendering the entire population of 1,500 homeless. The wind was blowing at a, fast rate at the time, and the town being without fire apparatus, nothing was saved. Relief was sent from Ellensburg Monday night, provisions and clothes the next morning. About 250 houses were burned. Nothing is left bukthe coal company’s office and depot. Loss, $500,000; no insurance. The Norman Lloyd steamship, Fulda, which arrived at New York, Tuesday, from Breman, ran down an unknown fishing schooner tin the Banks of Newfonndland, last Saturday morning. A dense fog prevailed at the time, and the schooner disappeared astern almost immediately after the collision. Boats were sent out in search of her, but as she was not found, it is feared that she was lost, with all hands, twenty in number. Captain Ringk, of the Fulda, and his officers, say that they were taking all the precautions usual in foggy weather, w'hen the schooner was rnn down, and the accident could not have been avoided.

FOREIGN. Upon searching the houses of a number of suspected persons, the Madrid police found 3,000 weapons of various descriptions. Reports received daily from Suakim by the London Times confirm the opinion that either Henry M. Stanley or Emin Bey is in the vicinity of Darfur. A boat containing nine workmen was stranded in the Kananskis rapids on the Bow river, near Calzary, Manitoba, Thursday, and six of the men were drowned. Dr. Ridgeley, the physician of Tullamore prison, in whieh ManderviHe died, committed suicide, Friday. He was held responsible for permitting the ill-treat-ment which, it is charged, accelerated the death of Mr. Manderville and impaired the health of Mr. O’Brien. A dispatch from Capetown, Africa, says that the Debeers coal mine at Kimberly caught fire. Thursday evening. Eight hundred men were entombed. The work of rescue, which began at once, still continues, bub it is believed that five hundred persons have perished, including Mr. Lindsay, the manager of the company. Many of the victims are white people.

Thousands of visitors came to Peterhof, Thursday morning, to witness the arrival of the two emperors. The Czar was attired in the dress of a general officer, while Emperor William wore a Russian uniform. The Czarina was dressed in white. Emperor William, on arriving, ascended the quay and, with uncovered head, kissed the Czarina’s hand twice. He conversed with her majesty for some minutes. The Emperor responded in Russian to all the greetings extended to him. The imperial party was heartily cheered along the route to the palace. All the members of the party attended a family dinner at the palace in the evening. The Czar and Emperor William intend to confer upon each other the title of honorary admiral. The meeting between the emperors is said to have been extremely cordial.