Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Indian uprising in the Northwest is less threatening. The exceedingly hot weather has greatly huittlie Kansas corn crop., A soap trust is being formed at TBuffalo. Soap will soon be a great luxury. Mrs. Meckie L. Eawson has begun suit against the Chicago Times Company for $50,000 for libel. J. J. Goodin, Treasurer of Rawlins county,' Kansas, has disappeared, and his accounts are $12,000 short. The-postoffice at Atlantic City, N. J. was entered by burglars and over $1,200 in stamps, registered letters and cash secured. Edward Beattie, a twelve-year-old Chicago boy, stole $275 from his father and started to Texas to be a cowboy, but was corraled. * # r Bartley Campbell, the dramatist, who ■has for some time been confined in an asylum for the the insane, died last week of general paresis. A large portion of the business district of Norfolk, Ya., was burned last week. Loss $400,00a Many families 'were rendered homeless. All the general organizers of the Knights of Labor at Pittsburg have received instructions from Mr. Powderly to organize the telegraphers. James H. Porter, of Chicago, who forged checks to the amount of SO,OOO and got them cashed two years ago, has been arrested at Portland, Ore. The New York State Insurance Department has shut up the New York Safety Reserve Fund Association. The liabilities are $43,161.27 and total assets $12.28. The Chicago grand jury has found indictments again Sumner Welch and lawyer Starkey, of the Chicago City Railway Company, for tampering with juries. The daughters of Wm. Rolland and Lizzie McLaughlin, of Pittsburg, were burned to death by the explosion of coal oil cans which they were using in lighting fires. Dispatches 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. Lizzie Bosemad, a prisoner who broke from the Knox county,lll.,jail,was fatally shot in the back by Sheriff James Richy, at Abingdon, for not halting when called upon to do so. Elmer F. Jenkins, of Abilene, Kansas, has arrived at Boston, having traversed the whole distance on his bicyle. He left Abilene May 16. The whole dis- . tance traversed was fully 2,000 miles. For the last seven months 28,352 more immigrants landed at Castle Garden than in the corresponding seven months of last year. The July arrivals were 28,090, or 1,246 more than for July, 1887. Charles Ray, Mary Wales, and John Martin were drowned while fishing at Motor, la. The two former were to be married next week. The other was a ; boy. John Haggert has been appointed Postmaster General of Canada, and Hon. EdganDewdney has been appointed Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. , ;

While laborers were engaged in excavating for a new building in East Dubuque, lowa, they came upo%a numher of skeletons, all of grown persons. One of the skulls has a bullet bole through it Masked robbers entered the farm house of Conrad Doup, in Knox county, Ohio, beat the old man with a club, bound him with a chalk line, and then stole $2,600 from a trunk in which Doup kept his money. The body of Michael Weiss was found near Calumet, Mich., with his head completely blown off. It is supposed that he committed suicide by placing a jitick oh Hercules powder in his mouth and touching it off. * The sale of the celebrated horse “Bell ' Boy,” at T. C. Jefferson’s farm, at Lexington, Ky., caused much competition. C. U.-Seaman, San Diego, Cal., bought him for $50,000. J. C. Clark, of Elmira, N. Y., bid $49 100. Wm. Bowen, a laborer at Rockaway Beach, in New York, went home drunk on Thursday night. He quarreled with his wife, and, after giving her a terrible beating, he gouged out one of her eyes. The otMr eye he gouged out about a year ago. She is now totally blind. Bowen was arrested. The largest cattle sale* ever made in Kentucky by one man was made last week by Mr. C. Alexander, of Paris. He sold from his farm of 22,000 acres, on the Bourbon and Fayette county line, 550 head of fat cattle to M. Kahn, of Cincinnati, for M. Goldsmitn, of New York. They areto be shipped to London, England. U The decision in the New Jersey Court of Appeals declaring the high license local option law constitutional is elaborate and argumentative. The high license feature of the law was declared valid by a unanimous vote, but the court was divided on the local option feature, the vote'standing 8 to 7 in favor oi its constitutionality. m . The new letter carriers eight hour law went into effect in New York on the Ist and 213 substitutes were placed on the regular list. Many of the Carriers are very much dissatisfied at what they claim is an evasion of the law. Though

they work only eight hours, these hours are so distributed that they (begin work early in th<r morning and' do not get through until late at night. They talk of holding an .indignation meeting. Circulars have been issued by Alex. H. Smith, Secretary of the St. Louis Millers’ Association, calling a meeting of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana, Tennessee, and *f all winter wheat States, for the purpose of forming a flour trust. The Trust proposes to control, absolutely, the output, price and sale of flour in the territory it will. govern. The circular had been kept a profound secret until Friday, and the promoters of the project are very angry over its gaining publicity.

John Robinson, the(Veteran showman, died at Cincinnati, 0., Saturday. Mr. Robinson was more than eighty years of age, yet until within a very short time he maintained a remarkable degree of vigor. He has spent almost his whole life in the management of circuses, and was succeeded by his sons within the past few years. has amassed a large fortune, No showman in the country was better known fhan “Old John Robinson,’’ as he was familiarly called. He built .Robinson's Opera House at Cincinnati.

The village of Sidney, 111., is in a state of intense excitement oyer the discovery of a series of crimes committed by James Freeman, a rnarried man, seventy years old. who has accomplished the ruin of some twelve or thirteen young ladies, ranging in ages from twelve to sixteen years. He was arrested Wednesday, gave bond for SI,OOO and immediately absconded. The magnitude of his crimes was not tliscovered until after his disappearance. His nefarious work has been going on for over a year, and some of the most prominent families of the place are grief stricken over the disgrace of their daughters. Charles Perkins, alias Wilson, the desperado who killed seven mules and one horse belonging to Mrs. Moore, in the Choctaw 7 Nation, ten days ago, shot and killed two United States Marshals and one citizen Sunday, while resisting arrest. The officers got two citizens to pilot them to where they heard he was ambushed, and while on their way met him ot Marshall’s fern, 7 , on Red River, and attempted to arrest him, with the above result. Perkins and one of the citizens escaped unhurt. He is still at large. There are nine true bills against him for murder. He says he will never be taken alive. «

The conductors and stablemen on the Brooklyn Cross-Town Surface Roads to the number of 1,400 men struck Sunday because a conductor and driver of one of the cars had been discharged for arriv ing at the end of the trip four minutes ahead of time. The strike was announced at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, and the 450 horses of the lines were left uncared for. A half dozen strikers were arrested. One of the horses in the last car drove out was cut by a striker’s knife. The three lines involved in the strike run one from Hunter’s Point to Erie Basin;, another from Hunter’s Point to the bridge, and the third from Green Point to Calvary Cemetery. The car drivers and conductors in New York will not support their striking brethren in Green Point. They say that the strike was an ill-advised one and utterly uncall edfor.

FOREIGN. Near Montreal, Tuesday, a, hen scratched up $4,000 in old gold and silver coins, supposed to have been buried during the rebellion of 1837. The cholera in Amoy seems, for the time, to be checked, but at Chang Chon it is reported that 3,000 deaths have occurred in the past sixty days. The British government has requested a further respite for Hugh M. Brooks, better known as Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer. * Silesia is being devastated by terrible floods, the worst known in thirty years. Along the rivers Bober and Zacken the damage is especially great. Mr. Gladstone, in expressing thanks to a Sheffield deputation for a handsome present on the occasion of his golden wedding,said that when he secured home rule for Ireland his political work would be finished. New Zealand advices say the ship Star of Greece went ashore near Adelaide Harbor, July 13. The captain and sixteen others were drowned, the first and third officers, four men and four apprentices being saved.

The President of the French Agricultural Society has made a report regarding the losses caused by the recent rains. He says that the hay has been destroyed and the peasants have been compelled to kill their animals, being unable Jo feed them. He also says that corn can not ripen, that potatoes are rotting and that the vintage this vearwill be inferior. He estimates the loss to agriculture at half a milliard of francs, and says if the bad weather continues a month longer 'the crisis will extend to enormous dimensions. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, had planned a pilgrimage to Lourdes to give testimony at that shrine of gratitude for his recovery from his late illness. He was disuaded from doing so by his physicians, and embarked at Bordeaux, Saturday, for de Janeiro. Considerable anxiety is felt as to the effect of voyage upon him should the passage be rough, and every precaution possible has been taken against a relapse. He is accompanied by several dectors and a large number of attendants.