Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. " s _ The Indian uprising in the Northwest is less threatening. \ A storm near Sandusky, o.,did damage to the amount of SIOO,OOO. A fire at Cincinnati on the 24th destroyed a $300,000 shoe factory. There is a renewal of the land troubles in New Mexico, and violence is feared. Seven hundred and fifty boats are stranded in the Erie Canal because of low water. John L. Sullivan’s circus has come to an end, leaving, it said, a large number of unpaid employes. The Grand opera • house at Butler, Montana, was destroyed by fire on the 23d. Loss $00,000; no insurance. The Sioux chiefs at Standing Bock ageney decline to sign the treaty opening up the Sioux reservation to settlement.

In a boarding house fire at Maynard, 0., Friday, William Presser, his son Willie, and John Morgan were burned to death. Levi M. Bates, a well known merchant of New York, has confessed judgment for 1126,164.57. The liabilities are about $250,000. Chairman Hoge and Murphy have returned te Chicago and say that the Burlington men have decided to continue the strike. It is claimed that Pinkerton’s detectives have "worked into the K. of L. Assemblies all over the country, to act as informers. The American ship Henry B. Hyde, which arrived in New York from San Francisco, Tuesday, m ade the trip in eighty-eight days. Four indictments have been returned against each of the Chicago Recently rested anarchists, and each are required to give $15,000 bail. Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, is trying to get out of prisou by raising the question of tlie constitutionality of solitary confinement. • An extensive field of cannel coal has been discovered in Manitou county, Mo. From present indications it is one of the greatest bonanzas ever discovered. Mrs. Sidney Smith, of Baltimore, a lady with $2,000,000, 'was granted a divorce from her husband, Friday, on the grounds of infidelity. She has pensioned him. A partial test of the Standard Oil Company’s pipe line, which has been completed between Lima, 0., and South Chicago, has been made with satisfactory results. John L. Sullivan will renounce the prize ring for thecircus ring. He will hereafter run the Doris-Suilivan circus himself, having.bought John B. Doris's

interest. 3 At Owensboro, Ky., a little child of David Beaumeister fell into a kettle of .boiling soap, Friday, and when it was taken out nearly all of its flesh dropped from its bones. / A petition is in circulation among the New York workingmen asking the (President to remove Postmaster Pearson fori defying the eight hour law and othlr alleged offenses. An employe in a cemetery at Ellensville, N. Y.y is accused of robbing the graves of valuables, including jewelry, silver plates and handles from the caskets, etc. He has decamped. James McHenry, of Philadelphia, and James Marsh, of Brooklyn, dangerous counterfeiters, were arrested At Pittsburg, Monday, with $45,000 in counterfeit money in their possession. At Alton, 111., Saturday, Bob Ashley ran William McClain into the river, with a bowie knife and compelled him to stay there until he was drowned. Ashley was arrested for murder. A contribution of SI,OOO for the benefit Of the Wheeling flood sufferers was received by the committee from President Robert Garrett, of the B. & O. Rail- • road. The number of dead is sixteen. Miss Emma Morsey, of Louisville, Ky. is the latest heroine, having successfully protected herself against the attack of "burly negro burglar by breaking his head with a heavy perfume bottle. The Iron Moulders’s Union of North America closed its session at St. Louis, after adopting a resolution that on and after April 1, 1888, nine hours shall constitute a day’s work for members of the Union. A dispatch from Vancouver, B. C., says:. The Canadian Pacific steamship Aberdeen, from Yokohama, brings 543 Chinese, of whom 427 are for San Francisco. The cargo contains 1,300 tons of tea. Dispatches received Monday morning from Florida indicate that yellow fever there is entirely under control. The condition of things in the afflicted towns is favorable to eradication of the disease. . Railway lines west of Chicago and St. Louis have agreed to run a series of harvest excursions to all points in Nebraska and Kansas at one fare for the round trip on August 21, September 11 and 25, October?- and~23, ~ ' ■■ -tesl The agent of John Robinson’s circus, who la responsibly for the posting of “Tißls on"a Germantuthern Church, near' Vincennes, has turned over sls to the congregation to settle the trouble caused hythff art display. v Near Valley Mills, Neb., Friday, a Union Pacific freight train met with an accident —a car-load of shelled corn went down an embankment, and six tramps,

who i were stealing a ride in it, were Bmothere4te death.- w Two weeks ago the family of a quarryman named Plant, of New Castle, Pa., consisted of eleven souls. Five children have died since then of diphtheria, and the mother and the remaining four are prostrated with the disease. The Chicago anarchists held a meeting Sunday, which partook of the flavor of those held before the Haymarket massacre. An attempt to commit them to the support of Palmer for Governor failed by an overwhelming vote. Friday, near ,Bentonia, La., the daughter of Adolph Miles poisoned her father and three brothers. Two brothers are already dead, and the third brother and father are not expected to recover. Family troubles were the cause. The subscription fund started a w T eek ago by Mayor Hew r itt to reimburse O. M. Hartt, who suffered a loss of 12,500 by the boycott against him instituted by the Knights of Labor, Was completed by the full amount being subscribed. Mrs. Patrick Connorton, of Hartford, Conn., gave birth to a child October 4 last. It lived but one week. Thursday she gave birth to triplets, all girls, making four babies in less than ten months. All the latest arrivals are doing well.

More trouble is threatened from new features of the Burlington strike. The management has notified the telegraph operators to leave the Telegraphers’ Union. This the men refuse to do. It is expected this difficulty will be adjusted. A bronze statue of General Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city of Cleveland, 0., was unveiled, Monday, with imposing ceremonies, under the auspices of the Early Settler’s Association. The statue is nine feet in height sum weighs 1,450 pounds. The marriage of Congressman John J. O’Neill and Miss Kate R. Robertson was solemnized, Wednesday morning, at St. Theresa’s Church, St. Louis, with nuptial high mass. Mr. and Mrs. O’Neill left, Wednesday night, for Chicago, whence they w r ent East, reaching Washington in abour ten days. At Morlay’s Station, twenty miles from Redding, Cal., James Mason, a veteran stage driver, committed suicide in a horrible manner, Monday. He bought a fifty-pound box of giant powder, sat on it and touched off the explosive. The Coroner gathered up twenty pounds of the body in a basket. ~~L- __ The ship Solitaire arrived in San Francisco from New York, Friday, with John Wright, second mate, in irons. Wright suddenly fell in love with Captain Sewell’s young wife. The Captain says the mate followed his wife and sneaked around his cabin to listen to their conversations, therefore the only - Go thing he could do was to chain him up. Frank Ardary, the largest drayage contractor in Pittsburg, has failed, and judgments aggregating $7Q,000 have been entered against him. The liabili-ties-are estimated at between SBO,OOO and $90,000 with assets of about $20,000. The cause of the failure is mot known. Mr. Ardary was forced to the wall in 1873, but by energy and perseverance he succeeded in establishing a large business. At a time match contest for speed in the use of the type-writer, made at Cincinnati, Wednesday, between Frank ,E. McGuerrin, of New York city, and

Louis Traub. of the time occupied wasone hour and thirty minutes, in which the report of the judges says McGuerrin scored 8,709 words and Traub 6,938 words, half from dictation and half from manuscript. .-Mary A. Snyder was tried at Louisville, Wednesday, on a charge of obtainining money under false pretenses. She claimed to be a medium, and for $5 exercised the spirits from sick cows belonging to Joseph Muller. She then said $40,000 was buried deep under Muller’s back yard, and if he would give her $l5O she would get the spirits to help resurrect it. Muller mortgaged his home and paid her. but the $40,000 failed to materialize.

News comes from Ellenburg, W. T., of a confined flow of Chinamen into the United States across the border from British Columbia. The steamers of the Canadian Pacific, between China and Vancouver, bring hundreds of Mongol ians every two weeks. After landing they go eastward into British Columbia. They work their way across from Osoayis Lake down to Oaknaet River, and then down the Columbia River, through a number of placer mines that are monopolized by Chinese, and eventually find their way to the settlements oi the whites.

After lying in a trance for nearly two years, Joseph Guilfoyle, of Binghamton N. Y., has just awakened from what appears to him to have been but the sleep of a night. Mr. Guilfoyle, who was attending the High School, was Compelled to abandon hia studiesoecause of his health. Instead of improving he began to -rapidly decline. Subsequently lie was sent to the country, in the hope that air and exercise would bring again his former health, but this proved a false hope. Aboutiwnryears "ago first March he sank one night into a partial trance or cataleptic Bleep, Aftd : since ( that time TnrhM lain in This “temarkablenfluffiberr Friday he awoke, and, though somewhat weak, he is on the high road, to rehe reroerohoaL nothing. The Signal Office weather clop bulletin says: “The weather during the past week has improved the condition of the

growing crops in the corn and wheat States in the central valleys and in the Northwest; Reports from Southern Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee indicate that while the crops are not yet injured, more rain would improve them. The weather conditions were generally unfavorable for cotton, more rain being needed in North and South Carolina and higher temperature in Mississippi. Reports from Kentucky indicate that the tobacco crop would be improved by more rain. The weather has been favorabledor harvesting in the middle Atlantic States, Michigan and Southern Minnesota, but more rain is needed in Michigan, Indiana, and in some sections of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” A dispatch from Omaha says it is known there that the eloping St. Louis editor, Henry W. Moore, and Mrs. Norton passed through Omaha on Monday, en route to Canada. They were accompanied to that city and to Council Bluffs by Charles Reynolds, city editor of the Topeka Democrat.* It was Reynolds who assisted Mrs. Norton to escape from Topeka. He took her to some western point, where Moore, whom Reynolds also assisted to escape, joined them. All three then remained in hiding for a few days and then came east by the Union Pacific from Colorado. Reynolds handled the money for the eloping pair. He bought the railroad tickets, paid all the bills and acted as business manager; At Council Bluffs he parted compauy with them. MoOre and Mrs. Norton left on Monday night on the Burlington train for Chicago, and expected to be in Canada on Wednesdav.

The Uniformed Rank (Patriarchs Militant) I. O. 0. F. demonstration at Cincinnati, last week, was a pronounced success. Prizes were awarded as follows: To the Chicago Battalion, a two-hun-dred-and-fifty-dollar P. M. banner for the largest battalion; to Commander Crobel, Chicago Battalion A, a threehundred dollar diamond jewel for best drill; to the Chicago Battalion was also awarded a stand of colors and two prize flags, valued at SBOO. The two-thousand-dollar cash prize and four-hundred-dol-lar cash prize went to the Marion (Ind.) Canton for the best drilled canton. The second prize for the second best drilled canton, SBOO cash and a three-hundred-and-fifty-dollar banner, went to Excelsior No.*7, of Chicago. The prize for the canton coming the greatest distance, S2OO cash, w'ent to Canton Atkans, Paducah, Ky. For the largest canton, a four-hundred-dollar banner, went to Excelsior No. 7, of Chicago.

FOREIGN. Seven thousand colliers at Ponty Pridd, Wales, have struck for, an increase in wages. A fearful storm has caused much destruction in northwest France. Many fishermen have been drowned. The Duke of Gramont’s yacht has foundered off QuetteviJle. The Pope is suffering from a liver complaint, and is losing strength. He has been ordered to take mineral water before breakfast. He continues to work and to receive visitors. A volcanic eruption at Bandaisan, fifty leagues from Yokohama, has destroyed several villages and killed 1,000 persons, including 100 visitors at the thermal springs. A fresh cpater has formed, and the eruption is still active. The police of Dublin are keeping close watch on all American visitors. A detective entered a hotel recently and insisted ort holding a private interview with a gentleman from St. Louis who had previously visited Dublin. The gentleman complained to the United States Consul, who has written a letter to the police authorities demanding an explanation of the detective’s conduct. The mother of Alphones and Louis Sianzade, aged, respectively, eight and six years, residing in the Ru de Berri, Paris, was awakened Sunday morning by screams in the bedroom of the children. Hastening thither she found Louis lying in bed with a deep gash in his stomach. She called for assistance, but before her neighbors arrived Alphones had cut his own throat from ear to ear with a razor, dying shortly afterward. The woundofLouis, inflicted by Alphones, will probably prove fatal. Alphones hated his brother, and had, on two previous occasions tried to kill him, once by driving a nail into his head with a hammer. He had stolen the razor from a shop, sharpened it before going t@ bed, and took it to bed with him.

John Forhan, farmer, was shot dead near Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, Sunday, while returning home'from Tralee in a car with three laborers. Two disguised men jumped over a fence into the road, anchafter firing at Forhan at short range, escaped through a clump of wood and "were not seen again. A man wearing a mask of white cloth entered a field, at Glounamuhle, County, Cork, on Saturday, where a farmer named MacAulifle was working with a man named Ruare. The man demanded their names.- .Ruare gave him a false name and the stranger ordered him to ~get uporr hiS'kgggt'. itoare-obcyedranfl-the stranger shot him twice, inflicting wounds from which Re ‘died witliin an Four. The stranger then ranaway. He was not identified by McAuliffe. -Henry M. Stanley is rapidly hemming the question of the hour, owing to the multiplication of rumors concerning tbe mysterious “white pasha,” who, it is claimed by many, is really Stanley,

coupled with the total absence of definite news regarding the explorer and hl« party. It is now quite a year since Mr. Stanley has been heard from through means of direct communication giving evidence of genuineness. The most probable of the theories put forth concerning him is the one that Stanley has failed to meet Emin, and that both are in pressing need of help. It is not likely that either- Stanley or Emin would engage in a march of conquest against Khalifa Abdullah, the new Mahdi. without being adequately supplied with men, arms, ammunition,, stores, etc., and it is, of course, known that neither is so equipped. This is held to dissipate tlie assumption that one of them is the “white pasha.”